Monthly Archives: April 2014

Justice as Unfairness: Robert Hayden’s Lecture

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Stephen Norris

By  Dennis Kontorovich– In the lecture, “Justice as Unfairness”, given by Robert M. Hayden, from University of Pittsburgh, various issues concerning fairness, judicial action, and transitional justice were discussed. The most important argument that was made in this lecture was … Continue reading →

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Catastrophe of the Week: Entertaining the Apocalypse in Post-Soviet Russia

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Stephen Norris

Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU, came to Miami on April 7, 2014 and spoke about his ongoing research in post-Soviet cultural studies.  His lecture focused on the popularity of catastrophe narratives in the 1990s and … Continue reading →

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War Memory, Militarism, and National Identity in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Stephen Norris

On March 31, 2014, Karen Petrone, Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Kentucky, delivered a lecture at Miami on war, memory, and identity in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine.  Her talk built … Continue reading →

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The Iron Curtain as Semi-Permeable Membrane

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Stephen Norris

By Caroline Johnson– Michael David-Fox recently presented at Miami University for a lecture series organized as part of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.  His lecture identified the Soviet Union during the Cold War as possessing a “semi-permeable … Continue reading →

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The Semi-Permeable Iron Curtain

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Stephen Norris

By Petr Podkopaev– Michael David-Fox is a co-founder of what has become a very important journal in the field, Kritika (which means critique in Russian).  With such a title, one should not be surprised to find out that David-Fox’s work … Continue reading →

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