May 11 — Mikail Mamedov
At the next Russian History Workshop, we will discuss a paper by Mikail Mamedov, “Korikos, the Crown Prince of Armenia, or, The Story of an Impostor.” Dr. Mamedov received his PhD from Georgetown in 2010, and is a specialist in the history of the Russian Empire and the Caucasus region in particular. He is the author of a number of articles, including “‘Going Native’ in the Caucasus: Problems of Russian Identity, 1801-1864,” Russian Review 67:2 (April 2008).
We will convene on May 11, 4:30-6, in ICC 450 on the Georgetown campus.
April 27 — Lev Lurie
The next session of the DC Russian History Workshop will be this coming Friday April 27, 4:30-6, in ICC 550 on the Georgetown campus. PLEASE NOTE THE TIME AND PLACE, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM USUAL.
Lev Lurie will speak to us on the topic, “Peasants in St. Petersburg: Kinship and Class Struggle.” Lurie is a well-known historian and journalist specializing in the history and culture of St. Petersburg. He has written over 100 articles and 5 books, as well as producing documentary films for St. Petersburg’s “Piatyi kanal” (The 5th Channel) and hosting a program on Ekho Moskvy in St. Petersburg.
April 13 — Sarah Cameron
The next session of the DC Russian History Workshop will be this coming Friday April 13, 5-6:30, in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus. Sarah Cameron will present a chapter from her book in progress, “The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Mass Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan.”
Sarah Cameron is a Title VIII research scholar at the Kennan Institute, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She received her PhD in history in December 2010 from Yale University, where her dissertation received the University’s John Addison Porter Prize for the best dissertation in the Arts and Sciences (co-winner, 2011) and the University’s Turner Prize for the outstanding dissertation in European history (sole winner, 2011). Her research interests include comparative approaches to empire, mass violence, environmental history and the relationship between agrarian and non-agrarian peoples. Currently, she is revising her dissertation on the Kazakh famine of the 1930s for publication
February 17 — Marlène Laruelle
At our next session of the DC Russian History Workshop, Marlène Laruelle will present the abstract of the book she is writing together with Sarah Fainberg and Céline Marangé, COMRADES AND NATIONS: ETHNIC POLITICS IN THE SOVIET UNION FROM STALIN TO GORBACHEV. She will also present a preliminary sketch of two chapters from the book. The authors welcome our input at this early stage of their work. We will convene on Friday, 17 February, 5-6:30 in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus.
Marlène Laruelle is a Research Professor at the Institute for European,
Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington University. She was a Senior
Research Fellow at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (2007-2011) and a
Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(2005-2006). In Paris, she is an associate scholar at Sciences Po (the
Institute of Political Studies), and at the French Center for Russian,
Caucasian and East-European Studies at the School of Advanced Social
Sciences Studies (EHESS). Her main areas of expertise are political
philosophy, nation and nationalism, citizenship and migration in Soviet
and post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia. Her English-language
publications include Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Woodrow
Wilson Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and In the Name of
the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (Palgrave,
2009). She has edited Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion
of Russia (Routledge, 2009).
February 10 — Jeffrey Veidlinger
The next Russian History Seminar will meet Friday, February 10, to discuss a paper by Jeffrey Veidlinger. This meeting of the DC Russian History Workshop will be in ICC 662 on the Georgetown campus, from 5 to 6:30.
Jeffrey Veidlinger is Professor of History, Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire. He is currently writing a book entitled, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe.
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/.
