Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Check our current and past Speaker Series. All events will be released as a series on The Eurasian Knot, a podcast sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.

To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. Hosted by REEES Digital Scholarship Curator Dr. Sean Guillory, The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively and informative interviews. Take a deeper dive into individual lives and stories in the following Eurasian Knot podcast series.

How are political ideologies made audible? What are the material conditions, media networks, and sensory attunements that underpin state control of the means of sound production? And what might a “socialist sound studies” look or sound like? This two-day symposium will forge new lines of inquiry and dialogue in the study of sound and society under state socialism.