2023-24 Schedule 

 

Beginning in 2023, our regular time is now Thursday afternoons at 5:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Our events this year are planned as hybrid unless otherwise noted: they will have an in-person audience but can be attended simultaneously by Zoom. In-person events will be 5:00-6:30 pm at ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus, unless otherwise noted. 

 

Fall Semester

 

September 21

Oleg Budnitskii (National Humanities Center, former Institute Director, HSE), introduction by Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University, former Institute Scholarly Supervisor, HSE)

“Ten Years of the Former Centre for History and Sociology of WWII and its Consequences/Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies in Moscow and Historiographical Trajectories in Putin’s Russia” (discussion, no paper).

 

October 5

Aglaya Glebova, UC Berkeley

Book talk: Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin (Yale University Press, 2022). Co-Sponsored by the SFS Program in Culture and Politics (CULP), CERES, and the Jacques Rossi Fund on GULAG Research

 

October 19

Mikhail Zygar (Independent Scholar, former editor-in-chief of Dozhd’)

Book talk: War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (2023).

 

November 2, 3-4:30 pm, Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, NW

David Shearer (University of Delaware), moderator and commentator; Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University), Joshua Sanborn (Lafayette College), and Cristina Vatulescu (NYU).

Book launch discussion, signing, and reception for The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations, ed. Michael David-Fox (Pittsburgh University Press, 2023). Co-Sponsored by CERES and the Jacques Rossi Fund on GULAG Research. 

 

November 28 (Tuesday)

Fabian Baumann (University of Vienna)

Book talk: Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism (2023).

Co-Sponsored by the Carmel Institute, American University.

 

December 7

Marlène Laruelle (George Washington University)

“Engineering Ideological Production in Russia: Soviet Legacies and Neoliberal Mechanisms”

 

Spring Semester

 

January 25

Anna Graber (University of Minnesota)

"Tropical Siberia: Understanding Russia’s Geological Past”

 

February 15

Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland)

“Aral: Life and Death of a Sea.”  

 

March 14

Simon Belokowsky (Georgetown University)

“Urbanization and the Ambitious State: Rural People and Industrialization in the USSR and East Asia.” Co-Sponsored by Asia in Depth.

 

April 5-6

East Coast Russian/Eurasian History Graduate Student Conference (“mega-kruzhok”), University of Pennsylvania.

 

May 2, 4-6 pm, place TBA

Fifth Richard Stites Memorial Lecture. Catherine Evtuhov (Columbia University), title TBA.

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