Edythe Haber

Areas of Expertise

Edythe Haber is a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi, and Nabokov. A second book, Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter, came out in 2019, a Russian edition scheduled to appear in 2022. She has recently returned to Bulgakov and is continuing her work of exploring the mythical, religious, and philosophical underpinnings of his great novel, The Master and Margarita.

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Bożyszcza - wooden amulets and animals from prehistoric times of Polans, western Slavic tribe.

Prehistoric Front of the Cold War

Thursday, April 17, 2025
4 to 5:30pm EDT

In person

The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past.

Michael Kunichika

Professor of Russian, Amherst College

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Lessons From Turgenev's Laboratory: Toward a Companion to 'Fathers and Children'

Monday, September 16, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

Thomas Hodge will discuss how Turgenev’s Fathers and Children (a.k.a. Fathers and Sons) evolved from initial musings in 1860 into the book that was published in 1862.

Thomas Hodge

Professor of Russian, Wellesley College

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Frédéric Chopin statue in Royal Baths (Łazienki Królewskie) Park in Warsaw

Performing a Nation: Chopin Statue and Concerts in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park

Thursday, May 2, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.

Tony Lin

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Russian and Slavic Studies, Boston College

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Putin at the Headquarters of the Dnepr Group of Forces and Vostok National Guard with a Not Made by Human Hands icon of the Savior, April 2023

Putin’s Politics of the Sacred and His Claim on Kyiv

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EST

In person

This talk draws on 20 years (2004-2024) of religious political signaling by Putin as it explores his claim on Kyiv as the sacred center of Russian history and culture.

Amy Adams

Professor of Russian Studies, College of the Holy Cross

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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