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Lectures of the 2010-2011 Season:

 

Kristin Roth-Ey

Monday, April 4, 2011, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


Topic TBA

Kristin Roth-Ey, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.

Robert Geraci

Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., 209 College Hall


Topic TBA

Robert Geraci, Department of History, University of Virginia.

Denis Kozlov

Monday, February 28, 2011, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


Topic TBA

Denis Kozlov, Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University.

Yury M. Kublanovsky

Monday, January 31, 2011, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


Topic TBA

 

Yury M. Kublanovsky is a poet and poetry editor of Novyi Mir.

James Heinzen

Wednesday, December 8, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


"Bribery and the 'Campaigns' against it in Late Stalinism"

James Heinzen, Department of History, Rowan University.

Peter Steiner

Monday, November 1, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


"Dialogism: Bakhtin and Game Theory"

Peter Steiner is a professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lina Steiner

Monday, October 18, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


"The Idea of 'Culture' (Obrazovanie, Bildung) on Russian Soil: from Herder to Yurii Lotman"

Lina Steiner, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.

Katherine Verdery

Monday, September 27, 6 p.m., 209 College Hall


"Pedagogies of Persuasion: Collectivization in Romania"

Katherine Verdery, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center.
Lectures of the 2009-2010 Season:

 

Oleg Budnitskii

April 26, 6 - 7:30 p.m., 209 College Hall


Title TBA

Oleg Budnitskii is of Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Julia Verkholantsev

April 19, 6 - 7:30 p.m., 209 College Hall


"The Slavic Triumvirate: Sts. Cyril, Methodius, and Jerome"

Julia Verkholantsev’s primary research interests are in the field of Slavic (particularly, Early East Slavic, Russian, Czech, Polish and Ukrainian) cultural history, early modern and medieval literary and linguistic culture, textual and cultural transmission.

Valery Yakubovich

March 15, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m., 209 College Hall


"Russian Modernization: Reality, Fiction, and the Role of Social Scientists"

Valery Yakubovich (Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford, 2001) is Associate Professor of Management. He has been a Fellow of the Summer Institute at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Peter Holquist

December 1, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., 209 College Hall


"The Origins of Crimes against Humanity: The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide."

Dr. Holquist is author of Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921 (2002) and is a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. His current project, By Right of War, explores the emergence of the international law of war in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. To download Peter's paper, go to: http://www.history.upenn.edu/annenberg_speakers/index.shtml (scroll down to Dec. 1). You are cordially invited to a reception following the seminar.

Ekaterina Pravilova

November 6, 2-4pm, 209 College Hall


"Public Goods and the Censure of Private Property in Imperial Russia"

 

Commentators: two distinguished colleagues: Yanni Kotsonis (Associate Professor of History, NYU) and Jonathan Steinberg (Walter Annenberg Professor of History, Penn)
Lectures of the 2008-2009 Season:


Mischa Gabowitsch, Cotsen post-doctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts at Princeton University, Lecturer in Princeton’s Sociology Department

Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5 pm, ARCH Building, 3601 Locust Walk, Crest Room


"Political Obstetrics and Social Epidemiology: Anti-Fascism in Russia Since 1987"

Mischa Gabowitsch is a Cotsen post-doctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts at Princeton University and a lecturer in Princeton’s Sociology Department. He holds a BA from Oxford University and received his PhD with distinction from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris in 2007. He is currently turning his dissertation, entitled “The Specter of Fascism: Russian Nationalism and its Opponents, 1987-2007,” into a book in English. He has been a visiting student at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris and has received fellowships from the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden. He was the first Einstein Fellow invited to spend five months at Albert Einstein’s summer house in Caputh/Germany. In 2002-2006, he edited a Moscow-based interdisicplinary journal entitled Neprikosnovenny zapas; at present he is launching a new peer-reviewed journal in St Petersburg called Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. In addition to publishing numerous articles and several translated books, he has edited a book (in Russian) on the memory of the second world war in Russia, Germany, and Europe, published by NLO in 2005.




Theodor Gerber, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Russian, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 5 pm, Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402


"Russian Women on Family Formation, Prostitution, and Sexual Harassment: Results of a Recent Survey"

Co-sponsored by Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality




Nancy Ries, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 1 p.m., The Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut St. in Room 500 (5th Floor)


"Potato Ontology: Surviving Postsocialism in Russia"

Narratives and practices of everyday survival reveal much about both political and symbolic economies in Russia and other former Soviet communities. Many people talk about "living on potato," and this paper argues that they use potato to depict and theorize the valor of self-sufficiency, the retraction of the state after socialism, and their sense of radical disconnection from global commodity production and circulation.