January 20 — David Goldfrank
The next Russian History Seminar will meet Friday, January 20, to discuss a paper by David Goldfrank, “Litigious, Pedagogical, Redemptive, Deadly: Iosif Volotskii’s Calculated Insults.” This meeting of the DC Russian History Workshop will be in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus, from 5 to 6:30.
David Goldfrank is professor of Russian history at Georgetown University. He has turned his scholarly attention back from Nil Sorskii (1433/4-1508) to Iosif Volotskii (1439-1515). Professor Goldfrank’s Nil Sorsky: The Authentic Writings = Cistercian Studies, No. 221, appeared in summer 2008, and since then, while he is working on a critical translation cum study of Iosif’s Prosvetitel’, Goldfrank has published or has had accepted ten articles or book chapters on Nil, Iosif and related topics, including “Adversus Haeriticos Novgorodensos: Iosif Volotskii’s Rhetorical Syllogisms,” slated to appear later this year in a Slavica festschrift . Now Goldfrank continues his investigation of Iosif’s successful rhetoric and mode of argumentation with his workshop paper: “Litigious, Pedagogical, Redemptive, Deadly: Iosif Volotskii’s Calculated Insults.” Here, as the title suggests, Goldfrank analyzes the wide range and variety of insults which Iosif employed to serve his diverse personal, institutional, pastoral, didactic, polemical, ecclesiological, and political purposes.
December 2 — Tarik Cyril Amar
The next Russian History Seminar will meet Friday, December 2, to discuss a paper by Tarik Cyril Amar, “Different but the Same or the Same but Different? The Re-Making of Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv.” This meeting of the DC Russian History Workshop will be in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus, from 5 to 6:30.
Tarik Cyril Amar is Assistant Professor of Soviet and Russian History at Columbia University. He is working on a book on the “Making of Soviet Lviv,” a local study of Sovietization and Ukrainization. After his training at Oxford, the LSE, and Princeton, he served as the director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv. His forthcoming articles address issues of memory culture and politics in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine.
November 4 — Golfo Alexopoulos
The next Russian History Seminar will meet Friday, November 4, to discuss a paper by Golfo Alexopoulos, “Health, Medicine, and Mortality in Stalin’s Gulag.” This meeting of the DC Russian History Workshop will be in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus, from 5 to 6:30.
Golfo Alexopoulos is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida in Tampa and the author of Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936 (2003). She was awarded a NEH fellowship for 2011-2012 to complete her book on the Gulag under Stalin. The book is under contract with Yale University Press and will appear in the Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.
October 7 — Valerie Kivelson
At the next meeting of the Washington Russian History Seminar, we will discuss the paper by Valerie Kivelson, “Sacred Spaces/Magical Places in Early Modern Russia.”
When: Friday, October 7, 5:00-6:30
Where: Georgetown University, ICC building, room 662
Valerie Kivelson (PhD Stanford University) is Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Autocracy in the Provinces: Russian Political Culture and the Gentry in the Seventeenth Century (1997), and of Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia, (2006), awarded the Bainton History and Theology Prize and the Held Prize for the Best Book by a Woman in Slavic Studies for 2007. She has co-edited three volumes of essays: The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Rowland, with Karen Petrone, Nancy Shields Kollmann, and Michael Flier, (2009); Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, with Joan Neuberger, (2008); and Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice, with Robert H. Green (2003). She has just completed a manuscript on witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia: Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia.
September 16 — Mie Nakachi
At the next meeting of the Washington Russian History Seminar, we will discuss Mie Nakachi’s paper, “Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction and Demography in the Postwar Soviet Union.”
When: Friday, September 16, 5:00-6:30
Where: Georgetown University, ICC building, room 662
Mie Nakachi teaches Russian history and gender studies at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan and is currently a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2008 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center during 2008-2009. She is presently completing a book manuscript Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction and Demography in the Postwar Soviet Union.
The Washington DC Russian History Workshop is part of the Georgetown Institute for Global History (GIGH). For more information about GIGH, see http://www1.georgetown.edu/departments/history/GIGH/.
