Russia’s Races…

When I was studying for my Masters in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies at Columbia University, I was fortunate to have professors who introduced me to the notion, meaning, and constructions of “race” in the Soviet Union. In February, Columbia and New York University will be hosting a two-day workshop on race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.

Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia & the Soviet Union
Thursday, February 26 to Friday, February 27, 2015
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
(19 University Place, 2nd Floor)

Please join the Harriman Institute, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York Univeristy (NYU), the NYU Provost, NYU History Department, and the Humanities Initiative at NYU for a two-day workship on race in Russia and the Soviet Union. This two-day workshop aims to make a serious intervention in a key category of global analysis. It brings together historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists from Europe and the U.S., and combines Russian specialists with discussants from other fields (Latin America, U.S., Western Europe, the Caribbean). The central question will be not whether, but how race has worked in Russia over the past two centuries.