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.
Guests:
Ilya Budraitskis teaches political theory at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, or Shaninka. He’s the author of Мир, который построил Хантингтон и в котором живём все мы.
Ilya Matveev is a professor of political Science at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, or RANEPA, in St. Petersburg.
Together they co-host the podcast Politicheskii dnevnik.
Music:
REM, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It,” Document, 1987.
