The Eurasian Knot

Guest: Katya Tolstaya on theology, belief, and the remaning spiritual scars after Gulag.The post Theology after Gulag appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Fenggang Yang and Kung Lap Yan on Christianity, worship, and religious persecution in China.The post Christianity in China appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Anna Kovalova, Pitt's new Visiting Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, on her work on early Russian cinema.The post REEES Faculty Spotlight: Anna Kovalova appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Geneviève Zubrzycki and Jose Casanova on the place of the Catholic Church in Polish politics and national identity.The post Catholicism in Poland appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers Anca Sincan and Tatiana Vagramenko discuss secret police files documenting religious belief and worship in communist Romania and Ukraine. They explore religious objects, gender dynamics in the KGB and religious communities, photographs in the archives, legacies of secret police archives in Romania, and the challenge of preaching religious freedom to underground communities.

Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion.The post Lived Religion in Ukraine appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Bruce Grant revisits his book, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas, on the Nivkhi of Sakhalin, their Soviet experience, and the complexities of indigeneity.The post The Nivkhi of Sakhalin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Pride month! Misha Appeltova, Irina Roldugina, and Kate Davison join us to talk about their research on gender, sexuality and queer under state socialism.The post Queer Under Communism appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Soviet Union was a latecomer to the whaling industry. But after a bumbling start, by the 1960s, Soviet whalers were slaughtering over 20,000 whales a year. The decimation of the world’s whales in the 20th century, a genocide in which the Soviets played no small part, has had catastrophic results on the world’s ocean environments. Ryan Tucker Jones tells us about the Soviet whaling industry, the lives of Soviet whalers, their attitudes toward their craft, and the lasting trauma of the hunt the ocean’s majestic creatures.The post Red Whaling appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest: Mark Gamsa on Harbin: A Cross-Cultural BiographyThe post Harbin appeared first on The Eurasian Knot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.