Russian History Workshop
Co-Chairs:
Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown evtuhovc@georgetown.edu
For more information please visit http://dcrussianhistory.
The schedule for the Russian History Seminar is below. It will be updated as more information becomes available. The seminars are held on Friday afternoons, 5 pm, in the ICC Building, room 662, social hour following with light refreshments. Anyone wishing to participate or receive notifications of events should email Professor Lohr to be added to the listserv. Thank you.
Fall 2011
September 16, Mie Nakachi, Hokkaido University, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction and Demography in the Postwar Soviet Union"
October 7, Valerie Kivelson, University of Michigan, "Mapping Magic: The Sites of Witchcraft in 17th century Russia"
November 4, Golfo Alexopoulos, University of Southern Florida, "Rethinking the ‘Sewage-Disposal System’: Health Care in Stalin's Gulag.”
December 2, Tarik Amar, Columbia University, "Diiferent but the Same, or the Same but Different: The Re-Making of Public Memory in Post-Soviet Lviv"
Spring 2012
January 20, David Goldfrank, Georgetown University, "Litigious, Pedagogical, Redemptive, Deadly: Iosef Volotskii's Calculated Insults"
February 10, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University, "In the shadow fo the Shtetl: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe"
February 17, Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University, Sarah Fainberg, Georgetown University, and Celine Marange, "The Dark Side of the Friendship of Peoples"
April 13, Sarah Cameron, research scholar at Kennan Institute, draft chapter from The Hungry Steppe: Mass Violence, Famine & Making of Soviet Kazakhstan.
April 27, Lev Lurie, "Capitalism Came to Russia: 19th Century Petersburg as the Crucible of New Developments"
