How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law Jeffrey Kahn Presented at the Center for Russia, East Europe & Central Asia University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 8, 2022 Abstract The …
CREECA Lecture Series – Fall 2022
CREECA Lecture with Ted Gerber
CREECA Lecture: “Law and Visual Culture in Three Vignettes: The Albanian Dissident, the East German Judge, and the Polish Prosecutor” with Agata Fijalkowski
This lecture will explore the relationship between law and visual culture by looking at photographs of individuals (a dissident, a judge, and a prosecutor) who were involved in high-profile trials during the Stalinist period. An …
CREECA Lecture: “International Accountability for Russia” with Emma Gilligan
CREECA Lecture: “‘Harlem in Germany’: Race, Migration, and the American Analogy in the Federal Republic” with Lauren Stokes
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies. As West Germans discussed “difference” after 1945, they sought out a self-consciously “Western” and liberal way to discuss difference. The talk examines different …
CREECA Lecture: “The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization and Decay in the Writers’ Town of Peredelkino” with Kelly Smith
Russians today often remember the “Wild 1990s” as a time of chaos, impoverishment and disorientation. Through the lens of the privileged Writers’ Town, which had been built under Stalin and once been home to Isaac …
CREECA Lecture: “Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism” with Ilya Kliger
This lecture will outline an approach to the study of “sociotopes” in narrative fiction and beyond. Defining sociotopes as specific configurations of sociality, presupposing and projecting diverse scenarios and normative principles of affiliation and detachment, …
CREECA Lecture: “Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds” with Tatyana Gershkovich
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CREECA Lecture: “Crossroads of Empire: Culture and Statehood at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe” with Cristina Florea
Bukovina, a former borderland of the Habsburg empire now divided between Ukraine and Romania, was a place of mutual observation, competition, emulation, and conflict between the different states and governments that laid claim to this …
CREECA Lecture: “Thrifty Businesswoman or Exploiter Extraordinaire? The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russia” with Colleen Lucey
Professor Lucey will consider how Russia’s writers and artists popularized images of madams and procuresses as manipulative and greedy figures who tricked and abused the women in their charge. Portrayed as far more heinous than …