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Cookies and the Caucasus @cookiescaucasus.bsky.social · 6d

With the death of Title VI, these small initiatives supporting students to study Less Commonly Taught Languages will become even more crucial. Donate to support Polish at Ohio State! Even $5 is meaningful
buckeyefunder.osu.edu/project/47465

Polish Studies Initiative Grants and Scholarships Fundraiser

Advance Polish Studies at Ohio State, support the PSI Grant and Scholarship Campaign.

buckeyefunder.osu.edu

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 2d

San Francisco Bay Area: We’re a group of immigrant writers and translators born in the former USSR, here to push back against the growing threat to freedom of expression. Come to our Lit Crawl event at Ruth’s Table (3160 21st Street) on October 25, 2025, 5 pm.
@litquake.org #BayArea

A flyer displaying ten author's photos alongside three quarters perimeter. In the center left, in black, title of the event:
OWNING FEAR, REACHING FOR FREEDOM: POST-SOVIET WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS SPEAK OUT
on the right, in red: LIT CRAWL SAN FRANCISCO
Below, in Blue:
Sat OCTOBER 25TH 5-6 PM
AT RUTH'S TABLE
2160 21st Street
Sponsored by California Humanities and Ruth's Table

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Dmitri Manin @dmanin.bsky.social · Nov 13

Preorder this anthology of Soviet children's literature at 50% off until Nov. 20: $15 paperback or $49.50 hardcover. All new translations by Anna Krushelnitskaya and y.t.

Firefly in a Box

Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. OushakineIn Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid L...

www.upress.state.ms.us

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Jill @jillebean10.bsky.social · 7d

#PostcardsToVoters has 3 campaigns to choose from! Join us! PostcardsToVoters.org

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 14d

Just passed a house here today that had its decorations up. It's not even the right month yet, yet alone close to the date.

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 15d

Write for NewsNet!
NewsNet invites ASEEES members—including grad students— to submit pitches for articles. We especially encourage submissions on underrepresented areas of scholarship and pedagogy as well as reflections on the (possible) future(s) of the SEEES field.
Guidelines: buff.ly/AdfkNH9

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 15d

🔊 Join us for a third edition of the annual Václav Havel European Dialogues, a global series of discussions inspired by Havel’s enduring legacy.

Co-organised by the Czech Centre London, SSEES and PIMs.

🗓️ 22 October at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Event poster for 'Václav Havel European Dialogues' with a photo of Vaclav Havel.

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Jill @jillebean10.bsky.social · 17d

Lots of choices!!! Please pitch in! #PostcardsToVoters
PostcardsToVoters.org
Or Abby.PostcardsToVoters.org

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 19d

Ours are too, just not consecutively :)

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 19d

That looks amazing.
Happy New Year!

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 19d

🤣 ❤️
I made Sasha email the water polo coach to explain his impending absence today from after-school practice.
Our schools are closed tomorrow and on Yom Kippur. That didn't use to be the case, but given how many were probably absent on those days, they changed it at some point.

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 19d

To all who celebrate, Shana tovah. May the coming year be better, sweeter, and more peaceful than this one. Admittedly, the bar's set very low, but hope dies last.

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 20d

The left one is a preorder picked up today; another preorder will arrive shortly; the right one was recommended on the other site a while back. The end of my gift certificate and the beginning of the academic year, when I will have loads of free time to read.

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Bergstrom Press and Books @bergstrombookstore.bsky.social · 22d

Think about where you buy books, & how quickly you think the corporate giants pull an "undesirable" book from their "shelves." Support your local indie bookstore & defend your library. Because if you "Give a Mouse a Kimmel," well, I think you know the story. #freadom @americanbookseller.bsky.social

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 24d

I am so sorry for your loss.

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 24d

Thank *you* for your wonderfully written essay. One of the easiest editing jobs ever :)

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · 24d

An essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social, whose short story collection, Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, is out later this year.
@olgaz.bsky.social

Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 24d

On nostalgia and more by @kristinaten.bsky.social

"The acquisition of the hundred-plus children’s books from my mom’s basement wasn’t exactly in keeping with this plan. So naturally I loaded them up [...] and set them up that day."
puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/w...

@olgaz.bsky.social

We Have to Go Back: Speculative Fiction, Nostalgia, and the Ghosts of Bookshelves Past, Guest Essay by Kristina Ten

We’re delighted to welcome Kristina Ten on the blog with an essay about some of the origins—personal, familial, cultural, and political—of her debut short story collection. Tell Me Yours, I’l…

puncturedlines.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 24d

Wrote a photo essay for @puncturedlines.bsky.social about nostalgia, Soviet-era children’s books, speculative fiction, and a recent trip to the country of Georgia. Come for the picture of baby-me talking into a mall phone. Stay for Svetlana Boym 💗

➡️ puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/

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Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social · 24d

On nostalgia and more by @kristinaten.bsky.social

"The acquisition of the hundred-plus children’s books from my mom’s basement wasn’t exactly in keeping with this plan. So naturally I loaded them up [...] and set them up that day."
puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/w...

@olgaz.bsky.social

We Have to Go Back: Speculative Fiction, Nostalgia, and the Ghosts of Bookshelves Past, Guest Essay by Kristina Ten

We’re delighted to welcome Kristina Ten on the blog with an essay about some of the origins—personal, familial, cultural, and political—of her debut short story collection. Tell Me Yours, I’l…

puncturedlines.com

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · Sep 5

My book came out 6 years ago -- thank you WTAW Press for taking a chance on this collection. It made my world so much bigger and helped me meet so many wonderful people and find community. Huge hugs to all my readers -- forever grateful.

A woman holding a book. On the background: a bougainvillea in bloom and gray sky.

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · Sep 11

@yelenafurman.bsky.social I hope you don't miss this massive Alla Pugacheva interview. It exploded my Russian-language socials. I'm just starting it myself, but people say it's amazing.
youtu.be/D6rFxVPz7UI?...

Алла Пугачёва: большое интервью «Скажи Гордеевой»

YouTube video by Скажи Гордеевой

youtu.be

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Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you! Looking forward.

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · Sep 8

CfP: Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS)
“Diasporas: Building Bridges Across Nations"
May 28–31, 2026
aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at...

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