Past Events

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hands putting international coins into piggy bank

“Like Cooking Plov with Hoja Nasreddin”: Calculating Soviet-Era Monetary Transfers to Tajikistan, 1971-1989

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By recalculating monetary flows to and from Tajikistan, it is possible to re-evaluate the implications for the Soviet Union’s development practices in Central Asia.

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Gregory Gleason
Gregory Gleason

Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Stalin and the Fate of Europe book cover

Stalin and the Fate of Europe: A Roundtable Discussion

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Through case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans’ fight to determine their future.

Recording Available
Peter Ruggenthaler
Peter Ruggenthaler

Deputy Director, Boltzmann Institute for the Study of War's Consequences (Austria)

Tvrtko Jakovina
Tvrtko Jakovina

Professor of Modern History, University of Zagreb

Vit Smetana
Vít Smetana

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences; Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Miklós Mitrovits
Miklós Mitrovits

Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

James Hershberg
James G. Hershberg

Professor of History, George Washington University

black, yellow, and white hands reaching

New Directions in Research: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in the American Arctic and Siberia

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This session will cover new areas of research, focusing on race, gender, and indigeneity in the American Arctic and Siberia.

Recording Available
Kathryn Graber
Kathryn E. Graber

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington

Olga Ulturgasheva
Olga Ulturgasheva

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

Manduhai Buyandelger
Manduhai Buyandelger

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

large-scale triptych

Painting "Playground of the Autocrats"

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Explore large polyptychs, where viewers are led across centuries of Russian history.

Recording Available
Anne Bobroff-Hajal
Anne Bobroff-Hajal

Artist

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

black, yellow, and white hands reaching

New Directions in Research: Russian Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries

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This session will cover new areas of research, focusing on Russian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Recording Available
José Vergara
José Vergara

Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Section, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Swarthmore College

Bella Grigoryan
Bella Grigoryan

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.