Join the Jordan Center for the first 19v seminar of the new academic year! What defines Russia’s 19th century in the history of empire? And what relevance might this periodization have for analyses of cultural and literary production? In this talk, building from my research into the history of communication in the Russian empire, 1500-1900, I will try to think…
Presenter: Elena Bacchin (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice & Columbia University, Marie Curie Global Fellow) Discussant: Mark Mazower (Columbia University) Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University) Political Convicts: Transnational Actors of the Risorgimento During the Risorgimento, numerous Italian intellectuals, patriots, and political activists spent parts of their lives in prison and built around this experience an identity based on the concepts of sacrifice and martyrdom. Focusing on the…
In the talk "A Slow Revolution: Early Steps Towards Jewish Emancipation in Bohemia, 1780s-1860s," Jindrich Toman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will guide the audience through select points that mark legal and cultural emancipation of Bohemian Jewry in the decades between the so-called Josephinian Decrees of the 1780s and the Monarchy’s liberal…
