Christianity in China

Guests: Fenggang Yang and Kung Lap Yan on Christianity, worship, and religious persecution in China.

Mental Health in Wartime Ukraine

December 16, 2022

Guests: Drs. Carmen Andreescu and Alex Dombrovski on their work on mental health in Ukraine though the Global Initiative on Psychiatry – USA.

Kyivan Rus’

December 2, 2022

Guest: Christian Raffensperger on the place of Kyivan Rus’ in the wider European medieval world.

The Day of the Baptism of Rus

November 18, 2022

Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus” published in the Russian Review.

Between Memory and History in Ukraine

November 11, 2022

Guests: Victoria Smolkina and Georgyi Kasianov on the complexities of memory, history, and politics in narrating Ukrainian history.

The Soviet Rock Scene

November 4, 2022

Guest: Artemy Troitsky reflecting on his life in the Soviet and Russian rock scenes.

Working Through Stalinism

October 26, 2022

Guests: Polly Jones and Zuzanna Bogumil on memory, politics, and trauma of Stalinism.

REEES Faculty Spotlight: Zoltan Kelemen

October 7, 2022

REEES faculty profile on Zoltan Zelemen about his research on neo-medievalism in international relations, law, and democracy.

The Economic War

September 27, 2022

Guests: Ben Aris and Ilya Matveev on the Russian economy during wartime.

Mixed Marriages in the USSR

September 20, 2022

Guest: Adrienne Edgar on Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia published by Cornell University Press.

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Rebroadcast of my 2016 interview with the recently departed Anne Garrels, author of Putin’s Country: A Journey into the Real Russia.