October 2 — Charles King
The next meeting of the Russian History Seminar will be a discussion with Charles King of two chapters from his current book project, “Odessa: Death and Genius in a City of Dreams.” The seminar will meet Friday, October 2, 4:30pm-6:00pm at the Intercultural Center (ICC), room 450, Georgetown University.
Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he also serves as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the author of The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Black Sea: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004), and The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (Hoover Institution Press, 2000), as well as articles and essays in Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, and leading academic journals. He lectures widely on eastern Europe, social violence, and ethnic politics, and has worked with broadcast media including CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, the History Channel, and MTV. A native of the Ozark hill country, King studied history and politics at the University of Arkansas and Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
The Washington Russian History Seminar is part of the Georgetown Institute for Global History (GIGH). It is sponsored by the GIGH, by the American University History Department, and by the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown. It is chaired by Catherine Evtuhov ( evtuhovc at georgetown.edu) and Eric Lohr ( elohr at american.edu).