The Russian and East European History workshop exists to provide graduate students with a venue for presenting and getting valuable feedback on works-in-progress (dissertation chapters and prospectuses, future journal articles, etc), all while enjoying some well-earned food and drink. Our Thursday evening meetings follow a tried-and-true format whereby presenters speak about their work for roughly 15 minutes before we open the floor for discussion of the pre-circulated paper.

This course is a year-long bi-weekly interdisciplinary seminar on the production, representation, and significance of cultural space. Eurasia, a region encompassing Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, provides fertile ground for our exploration of the ways in which mapping (and related forms of spatial analysis) can produce new insights into the relationships among and between cultural sites, systems, and practices. Special attention will be paid to urban space and the physical – mappable – infrastructures that shape cultural life.

The seminar includes individual and...