The Russian History Seminar of Washington, DC
A seminar sponsored by the Georgetown Institute for Global History
Past papers
Below, you can see the range of papers and presentations that the Russian History Seminar has hosted over the past 20 years.
2022-2023
Friday, September 16.
Book Discussion: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, From Victory to Peace Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon (open access, NIU/Cornell, 2021). Recommended for discussion: chaps. 1-2.
Comment by Greg Afinogenov, Georgetown University.
Friday, October 7.
Erina Megowan, Tufts University.
“‘Are Our Concerts Useful?’” Soviet Frontline Entertainers in Search of a Role on the Eastern Front in WWII.”
Thursday, October 27, 9 am-3 pm. Mortara Center conference room (to be confirmed).
International workshop: “Revolutionary Experiences Compared: Russia and China under Communist Rule,” international workshop based on pre-circulated papers.
If you wish to attend, please contact md672@georgetown.edu.
Thursday, October 27, 5 pm.
Fourth Richard Stites Lecture, Healy Hall Room 104 [to be confirmed].
Juliane Fürst, ZZF Potsdam. “The Great Escape: Why Soviet Hippies Did Not Change the World.”
To be followed by a reception.
Friday, October 28, 9 am-3 pm, McGhee Library, ICC.
International workshop: “Revolutionary Experiences Compared: Russia and China under Communist Rule,” international workshop based on pre-circulated papers.
If you wish to attend, please contact md672@georgetown.edu.
Friday, October 28, 4 pm, Arrupe Hall conference room.
Public presentation of book project: “Revolutionary Experiences Compared: Russia and China under Communist Rule.”
To be followed by reception.
Friday, November 18 at American University, 111 Don Myers Technology Building. Reception to follow.
Book Talk: Mark Edele, University of Melbourne, Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
January 27
Steve Harris, University of Mary Washington
“People Die on Aeroflot”: Airplane Crashes and State Secrets in the Soviet Jet Age
February 17
Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland
“Managing the Ruling House: Royals, Bureaucrats and the Emergence of the 1886 Statute on the Imperial Family of the Russian Empire”
March 24
Yurii Kaparulin, University of Michigan
“The Ruined ‘New World’: the Holocaust in the Village of Nayvelt”
April 28
Liudmila Novikova, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
“Famine and Survival Strategies on the Soviet Home Front: Between Centralized Provisioning and Local Initiatives, 1941-1945”
May 5
Laurie Manchester, Arizona State University. “Becoming Soviet People? The Adaptability of Russian Migrants Born or Raised in China”
2021-2022
Friday, November 5.
Yana Skorobogatov, Williams College.
“Crime and Punishment at Home: Soviet Women and the Death Penalty after Stalin, 1954-1974”
Wednesday, November 17.
Catriona Kelly, Trinity College, Cambridge.
“The Motherland and the Fight with Fascism: War Cult and the Soviet Cinema under Brezhnev”
Tuesday, November 30.
CERES Book Discussion: Vladislav Zubok’s Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Yale Press, U.S. release date Nov. 30).
With Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics); Angela Stent (Georgetown); Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University); Michael David-Fox (Georgetown)
Monday, December 6.
CERES Symposium: The Soviet Collapse Thirty Years After. History, Geopolitics, Society, Culture, Memory.
With Michael David-Fox (Georgetown), Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University), Kathryn Stoner (Stanford University), Olga Shevchenko (Williams College), Elliot Borenstein (NYU), Kathleen Smith (Georgetown).
Friday, January 21.
Paul Behrenger, Southern Methodist University.
“The Far Eastern Republic, the Japanese Intervention, and the End of the Russian Civil War”
Friday, February 11.
Paula Chan (Georgetown).
“Seeing Like the Stalinist State: The First Wave of War Crimes Investigations in Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Orel”
Friday, March 25.
Katherine Zubovich, University at Buffalo, SUNY/Wilson Center.
“Picturing the Plan: Stalinist Mass Politics and the Art of Soviet Statistics”
Friday, April 22, time TBA. Zoom only.
Tatiana Borisova, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg.
“Бессовестный Петербург и дискурс ‘общественной совести’ в 1870е” (discussion in English or Russian)
Monday, May 2, 5 pm.
Adrienne Edgar, University of California Santa Barbara.
Book Discussion: Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia.
2019-2020
September 13
Michael David-Fox, Georgetown University.
“Sex and Civilization,” chapter of Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Nazi and Soviet Rule.
October 4 (at American University, Location TBA)
Oleg Kharkhordin, European University, St. Petersburg,
Book talk: Republicanism in Russia: Community Before and After Communism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018).
[NB: no pre-circulated paper].
October 18
Abby Holekamp, Georgetown University.
“‘How Not to Write About the Paris Commune’: Scripting Revolutions in Russia and France, 1905-1936”
November 21 (Thursday, at American University, Location TBA)
Juliet Cadiot, EHESS, Paris.
“The Moral Economy of ‘Thieves’ under Stalin and their Understandings of Socialist Property”
January 17
Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University.
Book launch: The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
[NB: no pre-circulated paper].
February 28-29
Fourth Annual East Coast Russian History and Culture Graduate Student Conference
PhD candidates/recent PhDs and those who wish to attend, contact md672@georgetown.edu.
March 26
Fourth Richard Stites Memorial Lecture, 4-7 pm, Mortara Center Boardroom.
Juliane Fürst, Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam.
“How Underground was the Soviet Underground? Reflections on Late Socialist Worlds of Dissent and Non-Conformism.” Reception to follow.
April 3 (Location TBA)
Michèle Sarde (Georgetown University), Stephen Shapiro (University of Toronto Press), Golfo Alexopoulos (South Florida University).
Book launch, Russian (NLO, 2019) and English (University of Toronto, 2020) translations of Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde (Georgetown Professor Emerita), Jacques, le Français. Pour mémoire du Goulag, on Rossi’s life and incarceration in the GULAG (first event of conference below).
April 3-4 (Location TBA)
International Conference at Georgetown University.
“The Political Police and the Soviet System: Insights from the Newly Opened KGB Archives in the Former Soviet States,” Sponsored by the Jacques Rossi Memorial Fund for Gulag Research.
April 17 (NB: ICC 450)
Mark Edele, University of Melbourne.
Chapter (TBA) from the forthcoming Stalinism at War: A New History.
May 8
Anna Ananieva, University of Tübingen.
“The Limits of Europe in the French Revolutionary Era: The Case of Paul I (1754-1801)”
2018-2019
September 14
Kevin F. M. Platt, University of Pennsylvania.
“Commemorating the Imperial Past in Post-Soviet Latvia: Between Occupation and Colonization."
October 5, At Battelle-Tompkins Atrium (Room 110), American University.
Sergei Antonov, Yale University.
Book launch: Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
[NB: no pre-circulated paper].
November 9
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan.
“Red Flag Wounded: Historians, Stalinism, and the Soviet Experience."
[NB: talk and discussion, no pre-circulated paper]
November 30
Alexei Yurchak, University of California at Berkeley.
“Laboratory of the Future: Lenin's Body between Biochemistry and Art.”
February 1
Alison Smith, University of Toronto.
“The Lived Experience of Autocracy in Tsarist Russia.”
February 22-23 at New York University.
Third Annual East Coast Russian History and Culture Graduate Student Conference.
PhD candidates and recent PhDs contact Michael David-Fox.
March 22
Diana Dumitru, Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University, Moldova.
“From Holocaust to GULAG: Stalinist Penal System and Jews after WWII.”
Sponsored by the Jacques Rossi Fund for Gulag Research
April 5
Erika Monahan, University of New Mexico.
[Title TBA].
April 26, at American University, location TBA.
Faith Hillis, University of Chicago.
“Russian Emigre Culture and the Birth of Bolshevism.”
2017-2018
September 8
Susan Morrissey, University of California, Irvine.
“A ‘Thirst for Vengeance’: Terrorism and Emotion in Revolutionary Russia”
October 13, Mortara Center for International Studies, Conference Room, 3600 N Street, N.W.
Book Launch Symposium: The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison.
Sponsored by the Jacques Rossi Fund for Gulag Research and CERES.
Golfo Alexopoulos (University of Florida); Steven Barnes (George Mason University); Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London; Wilson Bell (Thompson Rivers University, Canada); Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University); Aidan Forth (Loyola University Chicago); David Shearer (University of Delaware)
November 3
Anton Fedyashin, American University.
“Yulian Semyonov: The Conformist Dissident and the Soviet Power Ministries”
December 1
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg.
“Reassembling History and Anthropology in Post-Soviet Russian Anthropology”
December 11-13 at Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
International Forum for Young Scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture.
PhD candidates and post-2013 PhDs apply by Sept. 15 to worldwar2@hse.ru or md672@georgetown.edu.
January 26
Stuart Finkel, University of Florida.
"'I Reserve the Right to Criticize My Friends': Roger Baldwin, the International Committee for Political Prisoners, and Letters from Russian Prisons (1925)"
February 9
Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University.
“Late Imperial Russian Witchcraft Cases in a European Context”
Feb. 23-24 at Princeton University
Second Annual East Coast Russian History and Culture Graduate Student Conference.
PhD candidates and recent PhDs contact md672@georgetown.edu.
March 23, Third Richard Stites Memorial Lecture
Hubertus Jahn, University of Cambridge (UK).
Healy Hall 104, 4pm.
“Functions, Feasts, and the Aesthetics of Empire: Russian Tsars Travelling in the Caucasus in the Long Nineteenth Century”
April 6
Krista Goff, University of Miami.
“Ingilo, Yengiloy, Georgian, Georgian-Ingilo, Azeri: The Politics of Naming and Groupness.”
April 20
Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M University.
"The Viability of Imperial Rule in the Caucasus: Viceroy I. Vorontsov-Dashkov and Armenians, 1905-15."
2016-2017
September 9
Sean Gillen, Georgetown University.
“The Service Myth of the Petrine Reforms.”
September 30
Vojin Majstorović, USHMM/University of Toronto.
“The Red Army and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Balkans, and Central Europe, 1943-1945.”
October 14
Brian Boeck, DePaul University.
"A Forgery, a Dynastic Fertility Crisis and the Evils of Ivan IV.”
November 4
Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania.
“To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Soviet Dissident Movement.”
December 9
Curtis Murphy, Georgetown University.
“The Lord's Justice: Blood Libel and Adultery in an Eighteenth-Century Private Town”
January 27
“The Russian Revolution: A Centennial Symposium.”
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies
Panelists: Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland), Michael David-Fox (Georgetown), Evgeny Finkel (George Washington), Peter Holquist (U Penn), Eric Lohr (American), and Ekaterina Pravilova (Princeton).
February 17
Steven Barnes, George Mason University.
“Gulag Wives: Women, Family, and Survival in Stalin’s Terror”
March 24 and March 25
NB: in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania campus. The debut of the new, rotating East Coast kruzhok, featuring new work from PhD candidates and recent PhDs, with faculty commentators from Georgetown, Penn, Columbia, and Princeton.
April 21
Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University.
“The Forgetting and Rediscovery of Soviet Machine Translation”
2015-2016
September 4
Robert I. Frost, University of Aberdeen
"On Unions: The Polish-Lithuanian Union (1385 –1795) and Composite States in Early Modern Europe."
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern History Seminar
September 11
Igor Fedyukin, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
"The Projecteurs: The Enterprise of the Early Modern School in Russia."
September 25
Second Richard Stites Memorial Lecture
Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan
"Six Million Jews in Peril: The Pogroms of 1919 in Ukraine."
Watch the the lecture.
October 16
Oksana Kornilova, Memorial “Katyn,” Smolensk Oblast
"Гулаг от Москвы до Минска: строительство первой автомагистрали (1930-е гг.)." [The Gulag from Moscow to Minsk: The Construction of the First Soviet Highway in the 1930s].
Co-sponsored by the Jacques Rossi Gulag Research Fund
November 6
Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati
"The Imperial Emancipations: Abolition and Empire in Tsarist Russia."
December 4
Mikail Mamedov, Independent Scholar in Washington DC, PhD Georgetown University 2010
"Reading Akram Aylisli's Stone Dreams on the 100th Anniversary of the Great Catastrophe."
February 12
John Randolph, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
"Peter and the Post: Empire and Communication in Russia's Eighteenth Century."
April 1
Barbara Skinner, Indiana State University
"In the Orthodox Fold: Conversion and Culture in Russia's Western Borderlands, 1800-1855."
April 22
Mariya Amelicheva
"Ottomans in Russia: The Eighteenth-Century Embassies to the Russian Court."
2014-2015
September 19
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
Selection from "Stalin: Waiting for Hitler" (the forthcoming vol. 2 of Stalin).
October 10
Andy Jenks, California Long Beach
"Hot Tubs, Hippies, and Space Cadets: Cold War Passages into Inner and Outer Space."
October 24
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
"Double Occupation", a draft chapter from his forthcoming book Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning.
October 31 and November 1
International Workshop: Occupations and Liberations in World War II: New Research on the Soviet Experience
November 7
Eric Lohr, American University, with Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown University, as respondent.
"Confiscation & Violence: A Comparison of Ottoman & Russian Economic Persecution in WWI."
February 13
Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland
"Loyalty and Emotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Imperial Politics."
March 27
Masha Kirasirova, NYU Abu Dhabi
"The Eastern International: the 'Domestic East' and the 'Foreign East' in Soviet Arab Relations, 1917-1968."
May 8
Nicole Eaton, Kennan Institute/Wesleyan
"Between Rehabilitation and Revenge: The Fate of Kaliningrad’s Germans, 1945-1948."
2013-2014
September 13
Bob Geraci, University of Virginia
"Imperial Bazaar: Ethno-National Dimensions of Commerce in Russian Eurasia."
September 27
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
"The Making of a Bolshevik: Stalin from Koba to Commissar"
October 4
Borislav Chernev, American University
"National Statehood in Eastern Europe: Ukrainization and Its Contradictions in the Context of the Brest-Litovsk System, 1917-1918."
October 25
Paul Bushkovitch, Yale University
"Change and Culture in Early Modern Russia."
November 7
First Richard Stites Memorial Lecture
Alfred J. Rieber, Central European University
"The Struggle over the Eurasian Borderlands: La longue durée."
February 7
Anne O’Donnell, Harvard University
"Revolutionary Value: Money and Things in Socialist Russia, 1917-1922."
February 28
Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawai'i
"Seeding the Habit: Tobacco in the Reigns of Anna Ivanovna and Elizaveta Petrovna."
March 21
Don Ostrowski, Harvard University
"Principles of Misattribution: The Kurbskii and Shakespeare Authorship Controversies Compared."
April 4
David Brandenberger, University of Richmond
"Stalin, the Short Course, and the Rewriting of the Soviet Experience."
April 11 and 12
International Conference: "Second World Urbanity: Between Capitalist and Communist Utopias."
Organized by Daria Bocharnikova (European University Institute, Florence Italy, and St. Petersburg State University) and Steven E. Harris (University of Mary Washington).
April 25
Sabine Dullin, Université de Lille 3
"USSR at the Border, 1920-1940: The Politics, Imaginaire, and Everyday Life of a New State."
2012-2013
September 21
Mayhill Fowler, University of Toronto
"The Turbins in Moscow: Center-Periphery Dynamics in Soviet Culture"
October 19
Alexander Martin, University of Notre Dame
"Constructing a New Life in an Age of Revolution: The German-Russian Odyssey of the Actor, Freemason, Merchant, and Pastor J.A. Rosenstrauch, 1768-1835"
November 2
Steve Bittner, Sonoma State University
"American Roots, European Varietals, Russian Science: The Great Wine Blight in Bessarabia"
November 30
Katerina Clark, Yale University
"Soviet-Indian Cultural Relations and India in the Soviet Cultural Imagination, 1920s and 1930s"
January 18
Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
"Fedor Martens, 1845-1909, and the Crystallization of international law in Imperial Russia
February 8
Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University
"The Early Chekhov: Master of Popular Realism"
March 29
Robert Geraci, University of Virginia
Discusses his book Imperial Bazaar: Ethno-National Dimensions of Commerce in Russian Eurasia
March 8 and 9
Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC), Fifth Biennial Conference.
"Antecedents and Subsequents of Iosif Volotsky: Exploring Eastern Christian Concerns"
April 12
Galin Tihanov, School of Languages Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London
"Thinking World Literature: Stalinism Into the Thaw and Early Stagnation"
April 25-27
Conference: The Soviet Gulag: New Research and New Interpretations
May 3
Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford University
"St. Petersburg: Shadows of the Past"
May 10
Adrienne Edgar, University of California Santa Barbara
"Ethnos, Nationality, and the Soviet People: Intermarriage in Brezhnev-Era Central Asia"
2011-2012
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
"Different but the Same, or the Same but Different: The Re-Making of Public Memory in Post-Soviet Lviv"
January 20
David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
"Litigious, Pedagogical, Redemptive, Deadly: Iosef Volotskii's Calculated Insults"
February 10
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University
"In the Shadow of 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"
May 11
Mikail Mamedov
"Korikos, the Crown Prince of Armenia, or, the Story of an Impostor"
2010-2011
September 10
Nadieszda Kizenko, State University of New York at Albany
"True Confessions: Public and Private Penance in Twentieth-century Russia."
October 8
Eric Lohr, American University
"Soviet Citizenship"
November 5
Steve Grant, Independent Scholar
Draft chapter from his book in progress, "The Russian Nanny: History, Culture, Mythology"
December 3
Andrew Robarts, Georgetown University
Introduction and first chapter of his dissertation, "A Plague on Both Houses?: Population Movements and the Spread of Disease across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1768-1830s."
January 21
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
"Nation and Revolution in the Making of Central Asia's First Communists"
February 18
Faith Hillis, University of Chicago
Draft chapter from her book in progress, The Ukrainian Cauldron: Anti-Liberal Ideology, Mass Politics, and the Search for a Russian Nation.
March 11
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Talk on his book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010).
March 18
Karel Berkhoff, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Draft chapters from his forthcoming book on Soviet home front propaganda, 1941-1945.
April 15
Elena Astafieva, Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC, EHESS-CNRS)
"The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, and its activities in Jerusalem and in Russia (1882-1917)"
May 6
James Meyer, Montana State University
"Politicizing Islam: Muslim Protesters, Tsarist Officials, and the Crisis of State Sharia in Late Imperial Russia"
2009-2010
September 18
Oleg Budnitskii, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
"Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945"
October 2
Charles King, Georgetown University
Chapters from Odessa: Death and Genius in a City of Dreams.
October 23
Richard Wortman, Columbia University
"Dynasty and Law in the Representation of Russian Monarchy"
November 6
Frances Nethercott, University of St Andrews
"Russians Wiriting Russian History: Western Impulses and Domestic Trends in the Late Imperial Era"
December 4
Kelly O'Neill, Harvard University
"Our Women for Your Salt: The End of the Slave Trade in the Black Sea"
February 12
Alain Blum, Director of the Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen École des hautes études en sciences socials, Paris
Paper on the relation between daily surveillance in the 1920s and trials in the beginning of the 1930s against scientific elites.
February 26
Ana Siljak, Queens University, Ontario
"Earthly Kingdom: Socialist Eschatology in Nineteenth Century Russia"
March 19
Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University
Book talk on Yalta: The Price of Peace (Viking, 2010)
April 16
Ekaterina Pravilova, Princeton University
Title tba.
April 30
Dominic Lieven, London School of Economics.
Book talk on Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814. Viking edition is scheduled for U.S. release April 15, 2010.
May 18
Elena Osokina, University of South Carolina
Book talk on Zoloto dlia industrializatsii: Torgsin (Moscow: Rosspen, 2009).
2008-2009
September 19
Benjamin Tromly, Harvard University
“The Rise and Decline of Soviet Patriotism: Higher Education Students in Khrushchev-Era Russia and Ukraine”
October 17
Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
“A byl li malchik? The idea of intelligentsia in the Soviet Union after Stalin”
October 24
Sergei Kapterev
“Illusionary Spoils: Influences of American Cinema and Hollywood on Soviet Film Culture During the Early Cold War (1940s-1950s)”
December 5
Gleb Tsipursky, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Coercion and Consumption: The Khrushchev Leadership's Ruling Style in the Campaign against 'Westernized' Youth, 1955-1964”
December 12
Ethan Pollock, Brown University
“‘Real Men Go to the Bania': Postwar Soviet Masculinities and the Bathhouse”
February 13
Mikhail Dolbilov, European University of St. Petersburg)
"Политизация религиозности: Российское государство и неправославные конфессии в Западном крае империи."
April 3
Claudia Verhoeven, George Mason University
"Russian Revolutionary Terrorism and the Nightmares of History, 1866-1906."
April 10
Olga Grushin
Discussion with the author of her widely acclaimed novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov.
April 21
Colloquium: "Nature and the Environment in Russian History." Organized by Prof. Catherine Evtuhov and sponsored by the Russian History Seminar of Washington, DC, the Georgetown Institute for Global History, the History Department of American University, the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University, and the Center for the Environment at Georgetown University.
April 24
Yanni Kotsonis, New York University
"Property Law and Political Power in the Stolypin Era."
May 8
Cynthia Hooper, College of the Holy Cross, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Kennan Institute.
"No Housekeeping in My House: The Return of the Appanage Prince to the Post-War Soviet Province."
June 5
Addis Mason, Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute
"Constructing the Russian Nation: Mikhail Bakunin, Vissarion Belinskii, & the Search for Russian National Universalism."
June 26 and 27
"Models on the Margins: Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Spain."
Conference held at the European University in St. Petersburg.
Organized by Profs. Michael David-Fox and Catherine Evtuhov.
2007-2008
February 1
David Shearer, University of Delaware
Introduction to book-in-progress, “Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Social Order and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s”
February 22
Anton Fedyashin, Georgetown University
"Liberalism, Globalization, and Rural Poverty in LateImperial Russia: Modernization on the Pages of Vestnik Evropy”
March 21
Paul Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Religion”
April 11
Michael David-Fox, University of Maryland, College Park,
“The Insider as Outsider: Maxim Gorky at Solovki and Bolshevo”
May 2
Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania)
“Soviet Rights-Talk in the Post-Stalin Era”
2006-2007
September 15
David Brandenberger, University of Richmond
Introduction to book manuscript, Political Humor under Stalin
September 29
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Project proposal for book project, “A World of Good: Jewish Philanthropy and Politics in Russia and the USSR, 1890s-1990s”
November 3
Doug Rogers, Miami University of Ohio
Introduction to book, Ethics upon Ethics: Work, Prayer, and the Virtues of History in the Russian Urals
January 19
Jeffrey Brooks, The Johns Hopkins University
"How a Soldier Saved Peter I: A Kudzu Vine of Russia’s Popular Fiction"
March 9
Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania
"The Politics and Practice of the Russian Occupation of Armenia, 1915-Feb. 1917"
2005-2006
September 16
Steven Barnes, George Mason University
“The Gulag's Apogee: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps”
September 30
Catherine Schuler, University of Maryland
“Noble Privilege in the Russian National Theatre: Prince Aleksandr Shakhovskoi and the Teatraly”
October 21
Harley Balzer, Georgetown University
“State-Private Partnerships in Financing Higher Education: Russian Empire, USSR, Russian Federation”
December 2
Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University
“Miraculous Healings in Late Imperial Russia”
February 17
Robert Geraci, University of Virginia
March 3
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
“The Red Prince: How Archduke William von Habsburg did not Become King of Ukraine”
March 31
Maxim Waldstein, University of Pennsylvania
“On the Road to Tartu: Linguists, Computers, and Soviet Academic Wars, 1950-1964”
April 28
Madhavan Kezhkepat Palat
2004-2005
September 17
Jeffrey Rossman, University of Virginia
Introduction and conclusion to forthcoming book, “Worker Resistance under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor, 1928-1932”
October 1
David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
“Recentering Nil Sorsky – The Evidence from the Sources”
October 22
Joshua Sanborn, Lafayette College
“Russian Soldiers and the Shocks of War: Humanity and Inhumanity on the Eastern Front”
December 10
Steven Harris, George Mason University
“‘I Know All the Secrets of My Neighbors’: The Quest for Privacy in the Era of the Separate Apartment”
January 28
Paul du Quenoy, Georgetown University
“‘Art Does Not Like Trouble’”: Saint Petersburg Stage Performers and the Revolution of 1905 (Part I: Imperial Theaters)”
February 11
Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“The Green City and the Production of Desire”
March 4
Ernest Zitser, Harvard University
Discussion of new book, The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great
March 18
Hubertus Jahn, University of Cambridge
“Begging, Poverty and Social Imagination in 18th and 19th c. Russia”
April 8
Harley Balzer, Georgetown University
“Public-Private Partnerships and Russian/Soviet/Russian Education: 19th Century Lessons for the 21st Century”
2003-2004
February 13
Richard Stites, Georgetown University
“Russian Images of the enemy in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5”