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"Remembering the Soviet-Afghan War: How a Blockbuster Film, Online Chat Rooms, Video Games, and Russian Veterans have Reshaped the Meanings of Russia’s Vietnam"

Stephen Norris is Professor of History and faculty affiliate with the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University. He is the author of two books on Russian cultural history: A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (Northern Illinois UP, 2006) and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism (Indiana UP, 2012). He has also co-edited three books, most recently Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present (Indiana 2012). He is currently writing a book about the Soviet political cartoonist, Boris Efimov (1900-2008).

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213 Kastle Hall
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"When Will the Real Day Come? Soviet World War II Films, 1945-1985"

 

Denise J. Youngblood is Professor of Russian History at the University of Vermont. She is a specialist in the history of Russian and Soviet cinema, about which she has written six books and numerous articles. Her most recent books are "Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005" (2007) and "Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds" (2010).

 
 
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213 Kastle Hall
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Exploring Siberia

Join us for a discussion and presentation on Drs. Miller and Krause's visits to Siberia. They will share their experiences. In English. Free & Open to the public.

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WT Young Library Alumni Room
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“The People’s Avengers: The Soviet Guerrilla War in World War II”

Kenneth Slepyan (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is a professor of history at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of several publications on Soviet resistance in the Second World War, including Stalin’s Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II (University Press of Kansas, 2006).

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213 Kastle Hall
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"Empires and Global History"

Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University and a specialist in the history of Africa, colonization, decolonization, and empire more generally. He is the author of a trilogy of books on labor and society in East Africa and more recently of Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996), Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002), and Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005). He is also co-author with with Jane Burbank of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010). He is currently writing about citizenship in France and French Africa between 1945 and 1960.

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230 Student Center
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"Interrelating Shamans, Politics, Ecology and Spirituality in Siberia”

 

Siberian indigenous peoples' intertwined striving for self-determination and spiritual vitality has been an impressive trend in the past twenty years, but their efforts are threatened by political, social and ecological change. This talk, based on long-term fieldwork in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and beyond, probes the implications of indigenous peoples’ concerns. Focus is on the Sakha (Yakut), who are the farthest North of the Turkic language speakers and the majority indigenous group of their multiethnic republic in the Far East of the Russian Federation. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, they have been coping with the tensions of increased development, mixed signal federal policies and valiant attempts at cultural revitalization. How far do the ripple effects of climate change go? How do indigenous land keepers discuss the dangers and potential remedies of change? Are indigenous peoples yet again at the forefront of human rights abuses?

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer is Research Professor at Georgetown University in the Anthropology Department and the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES).

 
 
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New Student Center Room 230
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Russian Conceptualist Art

 

Vitaly Komar is one of the most famous conceptualist artists to emerge from the Soviet Union. His work is known world-wide and he, along with his fellow conceptual artist Yevgeniy Fiks, are coming to Lexington for an encore performance!

Join us for a program that will include two presentation from each artist: Vitaly Komar - "Komar and Melamid Inc. Souls Project"  and Yevgeniy Fiks - "Magnitogorsk Tour of the National Gallery of Art". The artists' presentations will be followed by a mini-panel discussion and audience Q and A. This is a fantastic opportunity to hear these artists discuss their work, contemporary art both in the US & Russia, and their future projects. This event is not to be missed!!

 
 
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Worsham Theater, UK Student Center
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