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 …
Past Events Category: Lecture Series
“Elite Women on Trial in Post-Reform Russia, 1866-1884,” a lecture by Sergei Antonov
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 …
“The Eastern Carpathians in 1930s Poland: Natural Space, Lifeworld, and National Imaginary,” a lecture by Patrice M. Dabrowski
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 …
“A New Narrative for ‘Russian history,’ ” a Lecture by Ilya Gerasimov
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 …
“Russian Online Disinformation Operations,” a Lecture by Steven Wilson
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 …
“Russian Poetry and Its Freedom: Reflections After 2022,” a lecture by Stephanie Sandler
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, …
“Atomic Listening: The Nuclear Arms Race, Sonic Imaginations, and Posthuman Futures,” a Lecture by Gabrielle Cornish
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In this talk, Professor Cornish uses the Chernobyl disaster as a starting point to set sound studies into dialogue with the “deep history” of radiation and nuclear arms testing in the twentieth …
“Scientific Atheism as an Ideological Discipline in Soviet Ukraine,” a lecture by Oleg Kyselov
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: Atheism was part of the official ideology of the USSR; however, scientific atheism as a discipline emerged only after 1954. How did it emerge, develop, and serve party and state structures in Soviet …
“Laurie Anderson, Emigre Culture, the KGB, and the Dream of Connecting: (Soviet) Latvian Artists in (West) Berlin, 1977-1992,” a lecture by Kevin Karnes
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In this presentation, Karnes will talk about Maija Tabaka, who was the first Soviet citizen to be awarded the DAAD fellowship. Tabaka unwittingly opened doors to over a decade of artistic exchanges …
“Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-hundred-year Quest to Dominate Ukraine,” a lecture by Eugene Finkel
206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: In this book presentation, Finkel uncovers the deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Following the rise of Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, dominating Ukraine became the cornerstone of Russian policy. The Russian …