Emergency Eurasian Student Refuge Program
Bard College announces a scholarship program to support 40 Eurasian students who are displaced and unable to continue their education due to the Russian regime’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine…
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The Rhetorical Foundations of Russian Politics
November 29, 2022.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm.
Please join a discussion with Ilya Kalinin at the Harriman Institute of the Columbia University. Moderated by Valentina Izmirlieva, Director of the Harriman Institute.
Warning the Cities Conference in Berlin
November, 25-26 – WARning the CITIES is a one and a half day long conference devoted to the preconditions and consequences of war and other forms of ongoing and potential military conflicts, and the ways they affect cities, societies and people’s lives.
Online Lecture by Ilya Kalinin
On November 28, 7 pm (UTC+3) Ilya Kalinin will give an online lecture. This is a first public lecture in a series that aims to describe the mechanisms and practices of the mutual intersection of culture and politics in Russia in recent decades.
Andrei Rodin’s Talk in City University of New York
On Wednesday November 9 (that was already early morning of Thursday by Central European Time) in the Computer Science department of the City University of New York Andrei Rodin presented a research talk titled “Kolmogorov’s Calculus of Problems and Homotopy Type Theory”.
The Reaction Of Smolny Students To The Dismissal of Denis Skopin
We reiterate our strong protest against the dismissal of Denis Skopin for political reasons and support Smolny student
Meeting With Those Who Want To Help Our Project
November 4, Friday at 18:00 Moscow time / 16:00 Berlin time / 11:00 New York
Meeting with those who want to help Smolny Beyond Borders project.
University in Exile?
November 3, Thursday, at 19.00 Moscow time. Boris Grozovsky’s conversation with the participants of the Smolny Beyond Borders project.
Critical Thought Is ‘No Longer Possible’
The unfair dismissal of Denis Skopin caused a wave of interest in the press. Here is The dismissal of Denis Skopin caused a wave of interest in the press.
The War Teaches Us Nothing
War teaches us nothing. War always goes against the logic of life. It sends us to the very bottom of existence: food, sleep, purity, short-lived love, clearly rhyming with death. War takes home and a sense of security on an ontological level. Convenience and measuredness, a learned positive attitude is impossible. Optimism is apophatic.