Monthly Archives: March 2019

Truth, Power, and Painting: Victoria Lomasko on the Art of Resistance

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Victoria Lomasko, “Atlases,” 2019. By Emily Erdmann On Thursday, March 14, students and faculty gathered at King Library’s Special Collections in anticipation of an art reveal. After months of correspondence, coordination, and creation with the Havighurst Center for Russian and … Continue reading

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Five Questions With … Katherine Verdery

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Katherine Verdery with Securitate agent (photo from her file). By: Victoria Carvalho Salles, Elizabeth Spring, and Brandon Yang   Note: This is the third installment in our ongoing “Five Questions with” series where students enrolled in the Spring 2019 Havighurst Center for … Continue reading

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Travels without Charlie: Theofanis Stavrou on John Steinbeck and the Soviet Union in the ‘60’s

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John Steinbeck during his 1963 Visit to the USSR By August Hagemann On Friday, March 8th, Miami University’s Havighurst Center hosted Dr. Theofanis Stavrou of the University of Minnesota. Rather than a purely academic lecture, Stavrou sought to situate his … Continue reading

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Consummate Bureaucrats in “Anna Karenina” and “Petersburg”

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Bely’s Drawing of Senator Ableukov.  Source: http://petersburg.berkeley.edu/bely/characters.html. By Avery Comar Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1913), in both language and content, is very much engaged in conversation with Russian literature that preceded it. The interaction of Bely’s novel with its realist predecessors … Continue reading

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Invasive Propaganda or Different Perspectives? A Deep Dive into RT

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By Patrick Newell While much of the focus on Russian influence in the United States has been pointed at bots, trolls, and fake news, Miami students heard a different and perhaps equally important take on media effects from Dr. Megan … Continue reading

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Anna Karenina’s Parallel Conflict of Faith and Remorse

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By Izzy Tice A sign of blessing and grace, crossing oneself is one of the most important acts of the Christian religion, demonstrating faith and belief in God by means of prayer. In Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, Anna’s gesture … Continue reading

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