Event

Russian History and Culture Workshop

DATE: Friday, March 24 & Saturday, March 25, 2017
TIME: Please see schedule
LOCATION: College Hall 209

FRIDAY:

3:00 - Philip Gleissner (Princeton), “Soviet Union on the Seine:” Kontinent, Sintaksis and the Émigré Life of Journals”  [commentator: Ben Nathans, Penn] 

4:00 - Courtney Doucette (Rutgers), “Empty Shelves, (Im)moral Selves: Shortages and Complaints during Perestroika”  [commentator: Serguei Oushakine, Princeton]

5:00 - Vladimir Ryzhkovskii (Georgetown): “Yeti into Rebel: Boris Porshnev and his Revolutionary Biography of Humanity” [commentator: Peter Holquist, Penn]

SATURDAY:

10:00 - Elizabeth Banks (NYU), “Renewed Relations, Glasnost in the Embassy and the 1980s as Socialist Necrolog” [commentator: Michael David-Fox, Georgetown]

11:00 - Yelizaveta Raykhlina (Georgetown): “Imperial, Ethnic, Social: Representation of Russian Identities in the Northern Bee and the Library for Reading, 1825-1865”  [commentator: Jane Burbank, NYU]

12:00 - lunch on location (provided by Penn)

1:00 - Yakov Feygin (Penn): “Détente Economics” [commentator : Anne O’Donnell, NYU]

For more information, please visit:
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