Mikhail Zygar, War and Punishment, October 19
Mikhail Zygar, a journalist, filmmaker, and public historian, was founding editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent news TV channel,...
Aglaya Glebova, "Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin," 5 October
Tracing the shifting meanings of photography in the early Soviet Union, Aglaya Glebova reconsiders the relationship between art,...
Oleg Budnitskii, "Ten Years of the Former Centre for History and Sociology of WWII"
Oleg Budnitskii is currently a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and from 2011-2023 was the founding director of the International...
Katherine Zubovich, "The Art of Soviet Statistics," March 25
Katherine Zubovich is Assistant Professor of Russian History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She received her PhD in History from the...
Third Richard Stites Memorial Lecture, 23rd March 2018, "Functions, Feasts, and the Aesthetics
Note the time and location are different from our usual Friday seminars. Time: 4:00 pm Location: Healy Hall 104 Reception to follow Join...
Michael Gordin, April 21
Join us for the next Russian history seminar on 21st April, when we will discuss Michael Gordin's paper, "The Forgetting and Rediscovery...
Steven Barnes, 17 Feb
For this session, we will consider “Working in Alzhir,” a chapter from Steve Barnes’s book-in-progress, Gulag Wives: Women, Family, and...
Curtis Murphy, 9 Dec
The Russian History Seminar will hold its next meeting of the 2016-2017 academic year on Friday, December 9, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on...