Merci aux auteurs de cette tribune.
Lors de cette émission, ma première intention avait été d'interpeller ici à grands coups de pokes et de pings. Je m'en suis abstenu, lassé des indignations si typiques des RS.
Même si c'est un peu plus tard, un tel texte permet de préserver la qualité du débat.
Save the date! www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/ta... 16 January 2026, Berlin, we're organising our second conference : "Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion" This time, we teamed with @zois.bsky.social to build this exciting programme with 4 panels.
" L’univers des choses soviétiques "
Séminaire le 2e jeudi du mois sur le site
@campuscondorcet.bsky.social
▶️ 1e séance le 13/11 : " Penser le 'post-soviétique' au prisme de sa matérialité " avec @juliedeschepper.bsky.social et @ordzon.bsky.social
Infos sur urlr.me/z3GrY4
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Here we go with Racist Reconstruction.
Job for Ukrainian citizen:
Deputy Director of the European Think Tank Office in Kyiv
Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies @sceeus-ui.bsky.social
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs @uisweden.bsky.social
Guerre en Ukraine : ne rien faire, c’est laisser Poutine l’emporter. Kyiv a besoin d’un soutien occidental franc pour espérer une issue au conflit favorable aux Ukrainiens.
✍️ L'édito de @hamdammostafavi.bsky.social :
Paula Erizanu, 2021, "30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is it time to finally stop using the term post-Soviet"
www.new-east-archive.org/features/sho...
For those interested, I have found these recent pieces:
Dovilė Sagatienė, Challenging the ‘Post-Soviet’ Label and Colonial Mindsets: NATO Summit in Vilnius, VerfBlog, 2023/7/11, verfassungsblog.de/challenging-...
Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
Hi colleagues,
Could you list the best pieces (academic or outreach papers) you recently read that discuss the use of the term 'post-Soviet'?
Don't hesitate to cite your own work!
Many thanks!
*RESEARCH SEMINAR*
19 June, 5pm (Paris Time)
For the last session of our seminar "L’univers des choses soviétiques", we'll have the pleasure to welcome online:
Mollie Arbuthnot (Harvard University)
A Building Containing the Universe: The Materiality of Heritage and Atheism in Soviet Tashkent
Really enjoyed this conversation!
Kyiv came under a massive air assault, as Putin’s forces launched waves of Shahed drones and ballistic missiles.
Authorities report casualties and significant damage.
www.kyivpost.com/post/53265
Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!
Apropos of nothing, here's a book about how bad art drives out the good in authoritarian states, as artists' careers depend on producing art which flatters those in power rather than the ability to make quality art.
AI art supercharges this process by not requiring any actual artists.
L'aéroport de Volgograd renommé Stalingrad, V.Poutine explique qu'il est aussi possible que la ville reprenne son nom soviétique. On nage dans la nostalgie morbide, c'est un marronnier russe...
The hacker group NoName said the DDoS attacks were retaliation for the Netherlands’ military assistance to Ukraine.
⚡️Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut killed in deadly Russian attack on Sumy.
Ukrainian orchestra musician, Olena Kohut, was killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy, which killed at least 34 and injured 117 people on April 13.
📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
📕 Happy to see this presentation of our book published on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia's blog!
Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (Routledge, 2025), ed. with Antony Kalashnikov and Federica Rossi.
👉 jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/time-ob...
We’re looking for someone to review ‘Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State’. Reviewer will receive a free copy of the book and their review published in the journal.
DM us if you’re interested or email euroreviewhistory@gmail.com
Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the so-called “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November 2023.
One year the death of Alexey Navalny, @mlallouet.bsky.social reflects on the crisis at the organisation he created, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, in an op-ed for the @themoscowtimes.com www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/t...
I’m incredibly relieved to share that the Judicial Court of Créteil acquitted me yesterday in the libel suit filed by RT France against both my publisher, INA, and me! 1/9
Happy and relieved with the acquittal of one of our founding members, @maudinet.bsky.social, sued by Russia Today for libel ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@lemonde.fr
