An Artist on the Move: Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin and Russian Humanitarianism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

On February 10th, 2017 please join us for “An Artist on the Move: Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin and Russian Humanitarianism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” featuring Ada Dialla of the School of Fine Arts (Athens, Greece). The event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Art History.

Dr. Ada Dialla is Associate Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens, Greece). and also teaches European history at the Greek Open University. She had previously taught 19th century European, Russian and Eastern European history at the universities of Crete and Thessaly (Greece). From 2005 until 2009 she was director of the Historical Archives of the University of Athens. Her main research interests are 19th century Russian and Eastern European and European history and politics (with emphasis on transnational history), empire, nationalism, humanitarianism, Russian-Greek Relations, Soviet and Russian history of historiography. Her recent book is entitled Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century. Setting the Precedent, co-authored  with A. Heraclides (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).

This event is co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Art History. 

From NYU Jordan Center.