The Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies

‼️ Call for Applications - Monterey Summer Symposium in Armenia, Georgia & Turkey | July 2-20, 2024

Deadline: Feb 1, 2024

Twelve selected fellows will learn about imperial geopolitics in Eurasia and the world.

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NEW EVENT | Monterey Conversations: Russia’s Post-Soviet Space Program

Please join us for the upcoming Monterey Conversation on Russia's space program, from 1991 to the present, with Michael Gordin, Asia Siddiqi and Lisa Becker.

📆May 24 at 11:00 AM ET
📍Virtual and open to the public

In this Monterey Conversation, two leading scholars of the Soviet and post-Soviet space programs, Michael Gordin and Asif Siddiqi, will address the effects of the USSR’s disintegration on the Soviet space program; the ways in which this program was handled by the Russian Federation in the 1990s; and the place of the Russian space program in cooperation and competition with the United States. The Monterey Conversation participants will also discuss the current status of the Russian space program. This Monterey conversation will be moderated by Lisa Becker, an alumna of the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2020.

Register: http://ow.ly/z8jZ50Osu4k

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NEW EVENT | Monterey Conversations: Journalism at a Distance: Covering Russia from Abroad

📆May 4, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
📍Virtual

Register for a timely discussion with prominent journalists about reporting on today. Featuring Valerie Hopkins (Moscow Correspondent for the New York Times), Andrew Roth (Moscow Correspondent of The Guardian) and Hanna Notte (Senior Associate, VCDNP and CSIS).

The arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, in Russia, in March 2023, has shone a light on the challenges of international reporting on Russia. This Monterey conversation will feature two distinguished journalists, Valerie Hopkins (The New York Times) and Andrew Roth (The Guardian). They will address the task of reporting on Russia when it is very difficult for Western journalists to work there. Valerie Hopkins and Andrew Roth will discuss such issues as access to information and will describe the kinds of stories that can be written and the kinds of stories that are not getting written. This Monterey Conversation will be moderated by Hanna Notte.

Sign up: https://middlebury.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_itrJzAoZSk2O_0jn-tFE7w

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

NEW EVENT | Monterey Conversations: Reporting on Russia

📆May 4, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
📍Virtual

Register for a timely discussion with prominent journalists about reporting on today. Featuring Valerie Hopkins (Moscow Correspondent for the New York Times), Andrew Roth (Moscow Correspondent of The Guardian) and Hanna Notte (Senior Associate, VCDNP and CSIS).

The arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, in Russia, in March 2023, has shone a light on the challenges of international reporting on Russia. This Monterey conversation will feature two distinguished journalists, Valerie Hopkins (The New York Times) and Andrew Roth (The Guardian). They will address the task of reporting on Russia when it is very difficult for Western journalists to work there. Valerie Hopikins and Andrew Roth will discuss such issues as access to information and will describe the kinds of stories that can be written and the kinds of stories that are not getting written. This Monterey Conversation will be moderated by Hanna Notte.

Sign up here: https://middlebury.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_itrJzAoZSk2O_0jn-tFE7w

Watch and listen to the latest with Karl Schloegel and Yuri Slezkine, moderated by Michael Kimmage, about Soviet history.

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/monterey-initiative/episodes/Monterey-Conversations--Schlgel--Slezkine--Kimmage-Soviet-History-Revisited-e233duq

Video: https://youtu.be/mYU9s9_dcGY

Monterey Conversations | Schlögel | Slezkine | Kimmage "Soviet History Revisited" by Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies Podcast In this Monterey Conversation, two distinguished scholars of Soviet history, Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt an der Oder emeritus) and Yuri Slezkine (UC Berkeley), reviewed the long sweep of Soviet history, from 1917 to 1991. They addressed a multiplicity of questions. What are the best ways to frame Sovi...

STARTING SOON | Today at 11:00 AM ET | Monterey Conversation on conceptualizing Soviet history with two distinguished scholars of the subject, Karl Schloegel and Yuri Slezkine - moderated by Michael Kimmage.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Monterey Conversations: Soviet History Revisited. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. In this Monterey Conversation, two distinguished scholars of Soviet history, Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt an der Oder emeritus) and Yuri Slezkine (UC Berkeley), will review the long sweep of Soviet history, from 1917 to 1991. They will address a multiplicity of questions. What are the best ways to fram...

NEW EVENT | Please join us for the next : Soviet History Revisited, with two distinguished scholars of Soviet history, Karl Schlögel (Frankfurt an der Oder emeritus) and Yuri Slezkine (UC Berkeley). They will address a multiplicity of questions. What are the best ways to frame Soviet history? Should it be written as the history of ideology, of high politics, of ideas, of foreign policy, of everyday life? And how linear is Soviet history? Was the end apparent in the beginning? Or are there ways in which Soviet history should be seen as non-linear or cyclical? And what archives are available for the conceptualization of Soviet history and its stories? This discussion will be moderated by Michael Kimmage (CSIS, Catholic University).

📆 April 24, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
📍 Virtual | Register: http://ow.ly/BB6J50NOhZ7

Link to a remarkable conversation between Rose Gottemoeller and Hanna Notte on arms control in perilous times, covering the nature of current Russian policy, the challenges of doing arms control at the moment and what all of this means for non-proliferation.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLtrrejkzA

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/monterey-initiative/episodes/Monterey-Conversations---Gottemoeller--Notte-Whither-Arms-Control----A-Conversation-with-Rose-Gottemoeller-e22me7m

Monterey Conversations: Whither Arms Control? - A Conversation with Rose Gottemoeller | Hanna Notte This Monterey Conversation is with one of the world’s leading arms control experts, Rose Gottemoeller, who has served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO and...

STARTING SOON | Join the to discuss the overall drift of U.S.-Russian relations with Ambassador John Sullivan, Hanna Notte and Michael Kimmage.

Today at 11:00 AM EDT
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: U.S.-Russian Relations - A Conversation with Ambassador John Sullivan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This Monterey Conversation will be with Ambassador John Sullivan, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2022. In conversation with Hanna Notte and Michael Kimmage, Ambassador Sullivan will draw on his diplomatic experience to address the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the co...

REMINDER | Join our new to discuss the course of the ongoing war and the overall drift of U.S.-Russian relations with Ambassador John Sullivan, Hanna Notte and Michael Kimmage.

March 27 | 11:00 AM EDT | Virtual
Register: http://ow.ly/y1y850Nls5t

NEW EVENT | Join our new to discuss the course of the ongoing war and the overall drift of U.S.-Russian relations with Ambassador John Sullivan, Hanna Notte and Michael Kimmage.

March 27 | 11:00 AM EDT | Virtual
Register: http://ow.ly/y1y850Nls5t

NEW EVENT | The Yale Russian Chorus: Songs of the Slavic World

📆March 13 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PT
📍Irvine Auditorium, McCone Building, MIIS campus (499 Pierce St, Monterey)

On tour in its 70th year, the Yale Russian Chorus hits the road with a program filled with Ukrainian and Russian folk music, sacred Orthodox chants, and Georgian table songs. From Carnegie Hall to the White House — and now in Monterey — the oldest singing group in North America devoted to music of Eastern Europe is now more committed than ever to cultural diplomacy and to building bridges through song.

The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC) is a tenor-bass a ca****la choral ensemble specializing in sacred and secular Slavic choral music. Chorus members are Yale University students from a variety of academic disciplines. Founded in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, a Yale student at the time, the YRC is recognized as one of the world’s premier performance ensembles of Slavic music today.