This past summer, amidst international concern about the global COVID pandemic, Belarus erupted in protests following the stolen reelection of President Lukashenko. These events have reiterated the importance of having an active working group on the UCSD campus discussing changes in the region of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This interdisciplinary group of scholars is dedicated to promoting and discussing recent trends and challenges in the study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, with the opening of Soviet Archives, scholars of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states found themselves with new resources and opportunities to better understand the region and its relationship to the United States. Within the last decade, political changes in Eastern Europe and changing relations between Russia and the United States have simultaneously made the study of the region more urgent, and placed new obstacles before scholars wishing to better understand the region from a political, sociological, historical, or artistic perspective. This faculty and graduate student group will meet virtually each quarter to discuss recent scholarship on Eastern Europe and Eurasia that is relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Amelia Glaser, Literature Department, amglaser@ucsd.edu
Amelia Glaser, Literature faculty, amglaser@ucsd.edu
Robert Edelman, History faculty, redelman@ucsd.edu
Jesse Driscoll, Political Science faculty, jesse.driscoll@gmail.com
Philip Roeder, Political Science faculty, PROEDER@mail.ucsd.edu
Martha Lampland, Sociology faculty, Mlampland@ucsd.edu
Patrick Patterson, History faculty, PatrickPatterson@ucsd.edu
Ivana Polic, Graduate Student, History, IPolic@ucsd.edu
