5 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC89 views9 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
In this episode of our "Now in Russian" podcast we spoke with Valérie Pozner, a specialist in Russian and Soviet Film history.
She is Research director at Thalim – (Theory and History of Modern Art and Literature), CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), in Paris. Pozner has successively focused on the 1920s and 1930s, then the pre-revolutionary years, the World War II period, and the postwar era, with her i…
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24 Jul 2026, 15:03 UTC229 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
📢 10 days left to respond to the Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, "Unionize the Science: Agency and Infrastructures of Knowledge in Eurasia, 20th–21st Centuries."
YCIE invites proposals for an international conference in Yerevan on the agency and infrastructures of knowledge in the 20th and 21st centuries. We especially welcome papers on scientific cities, research institutes, universities,…
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9 Jul 2026, 09:24 UTC244 views10 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
In this episode of our "Now in Russian" podcast we spoke with historian and anthropologist Evgeny Manzhurin. Evgeny works at the Department of Architecture at Aalto University in Finland.
His research focuses on spatial social practices, the communication that sustains them, and the imaginaries that institute them. His academic interests include social, spatial, and environmental history, as well as the study of ver…
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2 Jul 2026, 05:45 UTC270 views11 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
We are pleased to welcome Lois Kalb as our last Research Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year at YCIE! ⭐️
Lois Kalb is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute in Florence and a research affiliate of the partnership project “Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time” at Concordia University in Montréal. Her work sits at the intersection of urban history and social anthropology and focuses on ur…
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29 Jun 2026, 15:02 UTC337 views13 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
YCIE invites you to the third annual Y-Conference. 📣
The Y-Conference brings together scholars who work in or focus on the Caucasus and Eurasia to present their latest research and discuss their ongoing projects.
The theme of the third Y-Conference is EMPIRES. In times of intensifying debates on the rise of neo-imperialism(s) and the return to empire, we want to bring together cutting-edge scholarship from the Huma…
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24 Jun 2026, 15:19 UTC303 views16 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
The second annual Y-Conference took place in Yerevan from May 22 to 24. This year's conference, which focused on SPACES, was a resounding success and almost tripled in size. In 2025, we hosted 11 panel sessions with 47 speakers; in 2026, we welcomed 32 sessions and 154 speakers, including twice as many Armenia-based researchers as in 2025, both from local institutions and among independent scholars.
The highlights o…
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18 Jun 2026, 08:11 UTC320 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
This lecture by Lois Kalb explores the Soviet-era neighborhoods of Riga as affective spaces – as spaces that produce a variety of sentiments for their inhabitants. It asks how Latvian and Russian-speaking residents feel about their neighborhoods, what urban spaces represent to them, and how they articulate their affects in relation to dominant political and public discourse. Using oral histories, the lecture uncovers…
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16 Jun 2026, 14:01 UTC268 views10 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Curating Infrastructures – Critical Spatial Research Encounters, an international event funded and organized as part of the YCIE Co-Funded Conferences program, welcomes emerging social sciences and humanities researchers, artists, curators, architects, and editors to join a three-day gathering in Yerevan dedicated to examining infrastructures as spatial, political, and cultural conditions shaping contemporary life.
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9 Jun 2026, 15:03 UTC345 views18 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Meet Anna Popovych, our new research fellow! ⭐️
She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, originally from the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
Currently, Anna is developing a project on the post-amputation rehabilitation of war veterans. Her other research includes the impact of wartime conditions on reproductive discourse in Ukraine, political attitudes of internally displaced persons (I…
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