Category Archives: Colloquium Talks

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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Beware of the Bots

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By Emily Tatum The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies continued its Colloquium lecture series on “Russian Media Strategies at Home and Abroad” this past Monday, February 25, with guest lecturer Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics and co-founder and … Continue reading

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Russian Media Meddling: The Catch 22 of an Open Media System

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By Kelsi Sievering The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies’ lecture series on “Russian Media Strategies at Home and Abroad” opened this past Monday, February 11, with guest lecturer Sarah Oates, a professor at the Philip Merrill College of … Continue reading

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Exploring the Immigrant Mentality in Post-Soviet Cinema

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By Zinaida Osipova Concluding the Havighurst Center’s lecture series on “Russia Abroad,” Miami University welcomed Oleg Sulkin on November 12, a well-known film critic, who discussed immigrant mentality in Post-Soviet cinema. Sulkin focused on the works of Otar Iosseliani, Andrey … Continue reading

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Processing Loss: Emigres in Transition

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Teffi in Paris. By Emily Erdmann Havighurst Center Colloquium students recently welcomed Dr. Polina Barskova, an associate professor of Russian literature at Hampshire College, for a discussion on “The Theme of a City in the Poetry of Russian Emigration.” Through … Continue reading

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Defining Nabokov’s Exile

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By Emily Erdmann As part of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies’s lecture series on exiles, “Homesick and Sick of Home,” Miami welcomed Roman Utkin, a Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies professor at Wesleyan University, to present … Continue reading

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