Category Archives: Havighurst Lecturers

Irrational Mistakes and the Media of Tomorrow: Mikhail Zygar and Project 1917

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By August Hagemann On Friday, October 26th, 2018, Miami University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet studies hosted journalist Mikhail Zygar.  Zygar got his start as a war correspondent with Kommersant, but became famous as the founding editor-in-chief of Russia’s … Continue reading

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Working Forward by Looking Back: Mikhail Zygar at Miami

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By Emily Erdmann On Friday October 26th, Miami students and faculty welcomed Mikhail Zygar, a best-selling author and former journalist for TV Dozhd’, as part of the Havighurst lecture series on “Truth and Power.” His visit was particularly poignant as … 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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Reporting on Russia

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Picture courtesy of Euromaidan Press.   The Havighurst Center’s fall lecture series continues with Anna Veduta: “Reporting on Russia.” By Helen McHenry Anna Veduta, Global Outreach director for Meduza News’s English branch, came to Miami on September 20 to speak … Continue reading

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Who Was Petr Chaadaev?

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By Austin Hall As Jacob Beard, a Ph.D. student in Russian Literature at the Ohio State University, regaled his audience with the trials and tribulations of Peter Chaadaev’s philosophical and literary career, it became clear that Chaadaev was a key … Continue reading

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Former Ambassador Talks Russian-American Relations

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By Mohinee Mukherjee April 7, 2017. Oxford, OH. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Dr. Jack Matlock Jr. provided insight about past, present, and future Russian-American politics at the Annual Havighurst Lecture. Havighurst Center Interim Director and Professor of … Continue reading

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