Fall 2009 Schedule
Fall 2009 schedule for the DC Russian History Seminar:
September 18: Oleg Budnitskii, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Intelligentsia Meets the Enemy: Educated Soviet Officers in Defeated Germany, 1945 .
October 2: Charles King, Professor of Government and Chair of the Faculty, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Chapters from “Odessa: Death and Genius in a City of Dreams”
October 23: Richard Wortman, Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, Columbia University, “Russian Concepts of Dynasty and Sovereignty”
November 6: Frances Nethercott, Lecturer, University of Saint Andrews, School of History, “Russians Writing Russian History: Western Impulses and Domestic Trends in the Late Imperial Era”
December 11: Kelly O’Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University. “Our Women for Your Salt: The End of the Slave Trade in the Black Sea”