Join the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for an online discussion of Kathryn Graber's (Indiana University) latest book, "Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia." 

Focusing on language and media in eastern Siberia, "Mixed Messages" (Cornell University Press, 2020) engages debates about the role of minority media in society, alternative visions of modernity and the impact of media on everyday language. The book demonstrates that language and the production, circulation and consumption of media are practices by which residents of the region perform and negotiate competing possible identities. What languages should be used in newspapers, magazines or radio and television broadcasts, and by whom? How exactly do discourses move into, out of and through the media to affect everyday social practices? In this book talk, Kathryn Graber will address these questions through her ethnography of the Russian Federation's Buryat territories, a multilingual and multiethnic region on the Mongolian border with a complex relationship to both Europe and Asia.

RSVP is requested; information can be found at this link.

Speaker:

Kathryn Graber, assistant professor, department of anthropology & department of Central Eurasian studies, Indiana University