RUSSIAN, EURASIAN, AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (REEES)

In collaboration with Timothy Frye of Columbia University, Denis Drane of the Northwestern Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, and the Ukrainian NGO "Open Court Project," Associate Professor of Political Science Jordan Gans-Morse organized a workshop on transparency and the rule of law in Kyiv.

Legends and Parables, an exhibition of thirty-four paintings by historian and artist Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History, was featured at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York.

Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and the author of “Leninthink,” joined James Panero to discuss the pernicious legacy of Vladimir Lenin.

Jordan Gans-Morse, Associate Professor of Political Science, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, arguing that claims that the U.S. president asked a foreign power to break U.S. laws could cause "harm both to Ukraine’s anti-corruption movement and to U.S. international credibility as a defender of the rule of law."

Clare Cavanagh, the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies, has won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for her translation of Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). This prize recognizes a published translation of poetry into English that demonstrates literary excellence.

An interview with the historian and artist Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History, appeared in the Ukrainian Weekly.

Inna Naroditskaya, Professor of Musicology in the Bienen School of Music, was named a 2019-2020 Faculty Fellow of the Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern University.