America’s Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees:
Twentieth Century Migration and Memory.
A National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute for College & University Teachers
Columbia University in the City of New York
Sunday June 9-Saturday, June 29, 2013
This Institute will consider the substance of the terms “diaspora,” “transnational,” “accommodation,” and “memory” through the specific prism of the four distinct waves—First (1917-40), Second (1947-55), Third (1967-89), and Fourth (1989 to the present)— of Russian-speaking immigrants to America.
One of the core issues addressed is whether we can create a sophisticated narrative synthesis of the “Russophone Experience” in America that could beintegrated into broader courses on American politics and immigration, sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies. More than this, can this synthesis be applied to the experience of other immigrant groups?
Institute applicants—current faculty members at U.S. institutions, independent scholars, museum curators, and up to three advanced graduate students—will compete for the twenty-five available Summer Scholar spots.
Over a three-week period, this select group will engage in a lively dialogue with an extraordinary array of upwards of fifty master teachers, scholars, and social services and community representatives of the last three waves of emigration (and with the children of the first). A full description, daily schedule, and application information will be found at: NEHSummerinst.Columbia.edu
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