Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
I attended a Belarus solidarity rally in Pittsburgh. Here’s what some of the protesters told me.
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.
Music:
Bauhaus, “Slice of Life,” Burning from the Inside, 1983.
Girlfriends (Podrugi) from Evgenia Kovda on Vimeo.
