Identity politics in Russia and Ukraine was a great zoom conversation, but I missed the chance to hear from Quentin Swaryczewski whose paper on Udmurt culture from the 1980s to today was so interesting. Discuss here please!
Social sciences
Kum, kumstvo: kinship across Slavic spaces
Interesting to see a piece on Serbia coupled with a study of Russophonic immigrants to Switzerland. Can we generalize about how relationships among Slavs pull and push people together and apart? Is it mostly in outside cultures that kumstvo loses its power? I’d love to see a discussion of this topic.