The Birch, the nation's first and only undergraduate journal for Eastern European and Eurasian studies, is calling for submissions for its Spring 2010 issue. The Birch was founded in 2004 at Columbia University in New York and originally only included content from Columbia students. Since then, we have grown to include submissions from over 40 institutions in the U.S., the UK, and Russia, and we have expanded our area of interest from Russia to the entire post-Soviet region.

There was me, that is Sarah, sat in front of the puter in my woolly toofles, after a hard day’s rabbiting, fagged and in need of a bit of spatchka, trying to gather together my messels and make up my rassoodock as to what slovos to write for this bloggywog. And I must confess, O [...]



[This is a content excerpt only. Visit our blog for the full post].

Few years ago, when I was an undergraduate student learning Korean, one of my professors started his methodology class about Korean studies with these two questions: Where is “Korea”? What do you call “Korea”?
Back then, everyone was quite sure about the answer and was wondering why a professor would ask that kind of question to [...]