Clik here to view.
The Adjunct Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem | CHE
By Sarah KendziorI left [academia]. But there is no escaping the consequences of academia’s reliance on contingent labor. If you do not experience the adjunct crisis directly as an academic, you may...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Only Positive Recommendations Please | Vitae
By Karen KelskyWarning: European academics write terse job letters that don’t go over well in an American search.Read the original postSee it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and Eurasian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hermitage director: Our task is to protect culture | Calvert Journal
By Nadia BeardMikhail Piotrovsky, director of St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, has urged for cultural links between the US and Russia to remain strong, despite the state of museum relations...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Is at Fault in Ukraine? | Foreign Affairs
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of articles examining the extent to which the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the West's fault. Those articles sparked a heated debate, so we decided...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shackling culture: uncertain times ahead for Moscow’s Museum of Cinema |...
The recent mass resignation of the staff of Moscow's Museum of Cinema sent shockwaves across the international film community. In a damning open letter, the museum staff slammed the institution's new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Country of Origin? It’s Complicated | NY Times
By Lev Golinkin“Where are you from?” Americans ask when they hear me speak, and I never know what to say. “New Jersey” never works, probably because people from New Jersey don’t have Slavic accents and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russian Miner Spends His Breaks Taking Photos Of Foxes In The Arctic Circle |...
Russia's remote north-eastern Chukotka region is an inhospitable arctic tundra, but even in this brutal landscape, Russian photographer Ivan Kislov can find beautiful signs of life among the foxes that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Habits of Highly Productive Writers | CHE
By Rachel ToorWhat are the personality traits and habits that help people crank out the pages? Here are a few that occur to me:They reject the notion of "writer’s block" the way others shun gluten.They...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rich tapestry: highlights of Central Asian contemporary art revisited |...
A selection of highlights from the Central Asian contemporary art sceneSee it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Blogroll
View ArticleClik here to view.
Memory and Responsibility | PEN Atlas
Having won the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Road to Donbass, Serhiy Zhadan writes for PEN Atlas about growing up in eastern Ukraine, a region now at war, and how love and attentiveness are the lessons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weather Man: Life at a Remote Russian Weather Station | The New Yorker
A meteorologist lives alone at an isolated Arctic outpost, measuring the temperatures, the snowfall, and the winds.Photographs by EVGENIA ARBUGAEVASee it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How different are Russians and Americans, anyway? | The Washington Post
By Rick NoackRussian President Vladimir Putin, President Obama and politicians in both countries have been trading barbs for months as the countries' relations have plunged ever southward.But what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Subtly Worded’ Brings Teffi to Non-Russian Readers | NY Times
By WILLIAM GRIMESTeffi, Nicholas II’s favorite Russian author, will have a chance at a comeback with the publication in English of the anthology “Subtly Worded.”See it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Foot in the Door at a Small Liberal-Arts College | CHE
How do you prepare for a first-round interview? By: (a) carefully reading the job announcement, (b) carefully reading the website, and (c) engaging in mock interviews. Don’t skip any of those steps.See...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central and South-Eastern Europe after the cancellation of South Stream | OSW
By Marta SzpalaRussia's withdrawal from the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline has changed the situation on the gas market and has encouraged new dynamics in diversification projects in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bulgaria’s Guerrilla Girl | Anthropology-News
By Kristen GhodseeElena Lagadinova ranks among the most fascinating women in Bulgaria’s contemporary history. I first met her in the summer of 2010 when she was already eighty-years-old. I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Curate Your Digital Identity as an Academic | CHE
By Kelli MarshallIf you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you.See it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Blogroll
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Russia's Future Leaders Will Not Transform the Regime | Foreign Affairs
Sarah Mendelson reviews "No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders" BY ELLEN MICKIEWICZ. Oxford University Press, 2014, 264 pp.See it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and Eurasian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book review: ‘Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928,’ by Stephen...
Ronald Suny reviews Stephen Kotkin's "Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928." Penguin Press. 949 pp.See it on Scoop.it, via Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Blogroll
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was ‘black’ in Russia. Is he white in America? | The...
By Eliot BorensteinBillngual speakers of Russian and English all recognize the disconnect between the terms “Caucasian” (i.e., “white”) and “Caucasian” (person from the Caucasus region of the former...
View Article
