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Russia’s Worlds Series: Soviet Union and East Asia
Friday, November 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live.
Please join us for an event in the Russia’s Worlds Lecture Series, featuring presentations by Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU) and Elizabeth McGuire (California State University, East Bay).
Russia’s Worlds Lecture Series:
In the last two decades historians have consistently challenged the center-periphery approach to the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, at the same time establishing the inadequacy of state boundaries to encompass imperial and Soviet experience. “Russia’s Worlds” brings together innovative work on connections between the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the outside world, looking at how these states, their cultures, and their subjects interacted with the wider world, other states, and the international scene based on religion, ethnicity, ideology and professional affiliations. In this series of six talks, twelve speakers working at the intersection of several fields will share new perspectives on how international law, migration, environment, traveling ideas, individuals and commodities tied Russia to a larger world and the other way around.
All events at 12:00pm Eastern unless noted otherwise.
October 28, 2020: The Russian Empire and International Law
Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
Will Smiley (University of New Hampshire)
November 20, 2020: Soviet Union and East Asia
Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU)
Elizabeth McGuire (California State University, East Bay)
January 21, 2021: Russian Empire and the Ottoman World
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC Santa Barbara)
Eileen Kane (Connecticut College)
February 18, 2021: Soviet Union and the Middle East
Sam Hirst (Bilkent University, Ankara)
Masha Kirasirova (NYU Abu Dhabi)
March 18, 2021: The Russian and Soviet North Pacific
Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University)
April 15, 2021: The Second World War and the Postwar Settlement
[Time TBD]
Michael David-Fox (Georgetown University
Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin, Madison)