Russian and East European Studies

Upcoming Events

September
1

REES Department Open House
Come one, come all!
Discover the region and the career and cultural enrichment opportunities hidden in plain sight for the inquiring minds.
September
22

Colloquium Series

Deglobalization and the Work of Radu Jude
REES Colloquium: Dr. Meta Mazaj, Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at Penn
Dubbed by the The New Yorker profile as “the Bard of Bucharest,” Radu Jude is one of the most prolific and fiercely polemical cotemporary filmmakers. The local setting of Bucharest fuels his exploration of the...
September
29

Pop-Propaganda: How The Kremlin Markets Its War Like Disney and Coca-Cola
Co-sponsored by Annenberg School of Communication and Russian & East European Studies Department
The talk examines a powerful subset of Russian propaganda, one that operates less as a “ministry of truth” and more as a media conglomerate—using influencers, streaming platforms, video games, and ad agencies to sell Putin, repression, and the...
October
6

Sing with Us in Russian and Ukrainian!
No Singing Experience or Language Knowledge Required!
Join us for an afternoon of singing with Julia Zavadsky, a Ukrainian-Israeli-American conductor and professor at the Curtis Institute of Music, who will guide us through Russian and Ukrainian folk songs and choral works by Russian and...

REES Faculty Score TWO Awards for Distinguished Teaching

Dr. Kevin M.F. Platt was awarded the Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching and Dr. Brian Kim received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor. We are very proud of our outstanding faculty!
The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism

An article in Jacobin by Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee. Here: The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism
What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera, A Guest Post by Kristen Ghodsee

Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published Kristen Ghodsee's first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea.
Penn professors launch European Studies Institute, revitalize European studies minor

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