Book Talk with Marjorie Balzer: Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia

Have you wondered how Russia’s external and domestic aggressions may be linked? How are Siberia and Ukraine connected today, beyond their shared Soviet legacy? This talk provides a fresh perspective using M. Mandelstam Balzer’s new book. Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival of Russia in its nominally federal form. Will Russia fall apart along the lines of its internal republics, as did the Soviet Union? Based on cultural anthropology field and historical research in major republics of Eastern Siberia-Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva)-the talk highlights Indigenous concerns about self-determination, fighting in Ukraine, ecology and spirituality.
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer is a Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center and cofounder of Georgetown University's Indigenous Studies Working Group. She is the editor of Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia and the author of several monographs and edited books on Siberia, Russia and Central Asia.
This event is sponsored by Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES).
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