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Post-Socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging by Kateřina Kolářová

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 Minority Inclusion and Exclusion in Soviet and Post-Communist Societies Speaker Series, a discussion with Kateřina Kolářová, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies…

Chavirer: A Conversation with Lola Lafon and Laure Murat

Join novelist Lola Lafon and author and UCLA professor Laure Murat on November 22 at 2pm as they discuss Lafon’s bestselling and widely acclaimed novel, Chavirer, just published in France (Actes Sud). If we had to name a secret thread that connect the novels of Lola Lafon, it would have to be: they all form an invitation to listen to…

Challenging “The Imam of Atheism”: Islamist Anti-Communism and the Soviet Union, 1958-1979

Between the Soviet Union’s outreach to countries like Egypt and Afghanistan in the mid-1950s and the growing role of Communists in Iraq following that country’s 1958 revolution, Muslim intellectuals and ulema feared the expansion of Communism in the Middle East. They began to conceive of Islam as a distinct ideological system and alternative to capitalism and socialism, and they looked…