Jesse Kruschke, PhD Candidate, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
This lecture is co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Department of German, Nordic, Slavic+. About the Lecture: This talk examines Soviet engagement with Black American literature by tracing unexpected continuities between Imperial Russian and Soviet approaches to race …
Anna Popovych, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: How do refugees position themselves within discourses of deservingness, a category whose salience has intensified in migration-sensitive political contexts? Drawing on 40 in-depth Zoom interviews with Ukrainian female refugees in Germany, Popovych finds …
Anna Whittington, Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair of Russian History. About the Lecture: After the October Revolution, Bolshevik leaders inherited a vast geographic expanse that was home to some 200 different ethnicities—some …
Ilia Nadporozhskii, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
This lecture is co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Department of Political Science. About the Lecture: The war in Ukraine appears to have significantly exacerbated tensions between civilian and military officials in Russia. On the one hand, …
Yoshiko Herrera, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has reinvigorated debates about the causes of war. The question of why Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale war in 2022 does not seem to be …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
We regret that the lecture scheduled for Dec. 4, 2025 has been canceled, due to speaker illness. We apologize for any inconvenience and will explore options for rescheduling this talk for a future semester. About the …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In 1991, as the USSR broke apart and its population became open to the reforming discourse of Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform program of perestroika, Soviet dissident historian Roy Medvedev set the tone for …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In this talk Darya Tsymbalyuk presents her recent book Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity Press, 2025). The book focuses on the impact of the Russian invasion on the …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: Is autocracy contagious? The connections between the world’s autocrats, and political actors in eroding democracies, suggest that this is the case. Putin’s support for the far-right in Europe and the links between …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
This is a meeting for CREECA faculty & staff. There will be no CREECA lecture held this week. Join us next week for “Is Autocracy Contagious?” with Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse.