Автор: Maria Mayofis
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The questions of guilt and of responsibility for what your country does are, sadly, not uniquely Russian.” French Slavicist Antoine Nicolle on Russian Literature after 2022
The latest period in Russian literature, which evidently began on February 24, 2022, just as it did in education and science, has so far received little systematic study. There are, of course, more and more conference papers and articles on individual authors and phenomena, and conferences now bring together dozens of specialists. Clearly, systematic book-length…
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Red Lines That Aren’t on Any Map: What can and can’t be said at Russian universities
What restrictions now govern the teaching of the humanities at Russian universities? How are they enforced in practice? And how do faculty and students try to get around them? The list of forbidden topics and actions is broadly known and fairly predictable. How these bans actually work, however, only becomes clear through the kind of…
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“None of the political parties makes higher education a priority on its agenda”: American higher education through the eyes of a university administrator
Our interviewee today is not allowed to give interviews — under the terms of her employment contract. The senior position she holds at an American university obliges her not to make her political views public and to exercise the utmost caution in public statements. But the changes now taking place at American universities are so…
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Austin Sarat: “Fear Is My Friend”
Renowned American legal scholar Austin Sarat, a founder of the humanistic study of law, on the responsibility of public intellectuals in the United States, the bracing “slap in the face” Trump dealt to universities, and the path forward in defending academic freedom and democracy.