Date: 2019 - Media Collections Online Search Results

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1. « Особенности диалекта и социолекта в творчестве Н. С. Лескова » [Dialect and Sociolect in the Wo... (42:02)

Date:: April 15, 2019
Summary:: Colorful and vibrant language distinguishes the oeuvre of Nikolai Leskov, “the most Russian of Russian writers” in the assessment of D. S. Mirsky and many others. This presentation addresses the la...

2. “Between Large Scale Infrastructures and Local Communities: Informal Roads as Agents of Change” (54:17)

Date:: October 17, 2019
Summary:: Dr. Vera Kuklina, Research Professor, Department of Geography, George Washington University While the impact of large infrastructural projects on Siberia’s people and environment has increasingly ...

3. "Environmental Challenges, Policies, and Grass-Roots Campaigns in Today's Russia" (1:26:38)

Date:: February 15, 2019
Summary:: Visiting environmental journalist Angelina Davydova speaks about environmental problems and challenges in Russia, the policies to tackle them, and the civil society initiatives and movements that h...

4. "Russian Odysseys" Part 1 (14:37)

Date:: September 25, 2019
Summary:: Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia Open Panel Discussion. Stephen Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch interviewed...

5. "Russian Odysseys" Part 2 (1:12:53)

Date:: September 25, 2019
Summary:: Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia Open Panel Discussion. Stephen Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch interviewed...

6. “Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment” and ... (1:50:43)

Date:: April 5, 2019
Main contributors:: Parker, Chris
Summary:: Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment: When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the worker's domain-specific k...

7. “Through the Wilds: Industrialism and River Life in the Siberian North” (1:10:08)

Date:: October 17, 2019
Main contributors:: REEI; Russian Studies Workshop
Summary:: Craig Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.The Lower Tunguska—a tributary in Siberia that flows into the great Yenisei river—was identified sever...

8. "Who are you wearing" with Professor Linda Pisano (27:58)

Date:: February 20, 2019
Main contributors:: Pisano, Linda; Shanahan, James
Summary:: In the throes of awards season, commentary on celebrity fashion choices runs rampant. This week, Professor Linda Pisano, chair of the Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance department, talks costum...

9. «Красная декада в истории сотрудничеста русских и американских антропологов» [The Red Decade in ... (1:04:36)

Date:: October 21, 2019
Main contributors:: reei
Summary:: This talk will focus on the scholarly activities of Julia Averkieva and Archie Phinney, anthropologists mentored by Franz Boas, the “father of modern anthropology” and a seminal figure in 20th cent...

10. «Между игрой и реальностью: детские сверхъестественные верования в цифровую эпоху» [Between Play ... (1:12:06)

Date:: April 19, 2019
Summary:: Folklorists and anthropologists have explored children's preoccupation with supernatural entities for decades, and the development of the internet has given rise to online video formats for superna...