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.
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: This talk will offer an overview of Against the Liberal Order, which came out with Oxford University Press in 2024. The book is a history of interactions between the interwar Soviet Union …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: Russia’s landmark judicial reform of 1864 introduced the public jury trial and turned the courtroom into a protected forum for social and sometimes even political debates. This lecture will explore some of the …
Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: The extension of the Alps of Western and Central Europe, the Carpathian Mountains are the Central and East European part of what has been termed the mountainous spine of Europe. Since the …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: The two-volume history course A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600–1918: From Russian to Global History published by Bloomsbury Academic represents a comprehensive response to the systemic crisis in the field traditionally …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: Online disinformation campaigns are the newest frontier of international conflict. What do we know about the tools being used by Russia both domestically and abroad? What is the strategic logic of their …
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound 1989-2022, the focus is almost entirely on work created before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It remains an open question what happens to Russian poets, …