Category Archives: Lecture Audios

Recordings of guest lectures

Weary of the EU

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Stephen Norris

By Nichole Kanios As a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands Dr. Antoaneta Dimitrova has pursued academic directives and investigations into the EU with regard to varying themes of decision making, democratization, institutionalization, and so on. In her lecture … Continue reading →

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“From Old Jerks to Young Turks”

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Stephen Norris

Karen Dawisha, Havighurst Chair in Political Science and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami, delivered a lecture on April 28 on generational change in Soviet Studies.  Dawisha used her experiences in the field to … Continue reading →

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“Looking for the Balkan (Br)other”

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Stephen Norris

Yana Hashamova, Professor and Chair of of the Slavic Department and Director for the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University, visited Miami University on April 21 and lectured about her current research.  Her lecture focused … 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 Semipermeable Membrane

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Stephen Norris

Michael David-Fox, Professor of History at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture at the Havighurst Center on March 10, 2014.  David-Fox explored the relationship between the USSR and the West and how we might better reconceptualize the so-called “Iron Curtain.”  You … Continue reading →

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