In the latest issue of the Central Eurasian Studies Review (Vol. 7/ number 1), Sean Pollock writes a summary of two workshops held at the Harriman Institute this year as part of the Russia-Islam project I was working on. One was entitled "Russia and Islam in the Archives of Eurasia: An International Workshop," and is discussed on pages 20-23 of the issue, and the other was called "Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches," and is reviewed on pages 30-33. I was the organizer of the second of these workshops.