Department of History

(Chairs: Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown—evtuhovc@georgetown.edu and Eric Lohr, American University—elohr@american.edu)

For more information please visit http://dcrussianhistory.umwblogs.org/

Fridays, 4:30-6:00 in [location noted next to seminar]
 

The schedule for the Russian History Seminar is below. It will be updated as more information becomes available. Anyone wishing to participate or receive notifications of events should email Professor Lohr to be added to the listserv. Thank you.

Fall

September 18: Oleg Budnitskii, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, and US Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945," 4:30-6pm, Georgetown University, ICC 662

October 2: Charles King, Professor of Government and Chair of the Faculty, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Chapters from "Odessa: Death and Genuis in a City of Dreams"

October 23: Richard Wortman, Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, Columbia University, "Russian Concepts of Dynasty and Sovereignty"

November 6: Frances Nethercott, St. Andrews University (Scotland) & Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, "Russians Writing Russian History: Western Impulses and Domestic Trends in the Late Imperial Era," 4:30-6pm, Georgetown University, ICC 662
 

December 11: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University, "Our Women for your Salt: The End of the Slave Trade in the Black Sea"

Spring

February 12: Alain Blum, Director of the Centre d'etudes des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-europeen Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials (EHESS) Paris, "Daily surveillance in the 20s and trials in the beginning of the 30s, against scientific elites"

February 26: Ana Siljak, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History, Queens University, Ontario, "Earthly Kingdom: Socialist Eschatology in Nineteenth Century Russia"

April 16: Ekaterina Pravilova, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University, title TBA