Category Archives: Lecture Reviews

Student reviews of guest lectures

What Democracy do Ethno-Populist Supporters Want?

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By Kate Gold On April 24, 2023 Tsveta Petrova, Lecturer in Political Science at Columbia University, visited Miami University as part of the spring colloquium series on populism in Eastern Europe sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet … Continue reading

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Populism’s Threat to Democracy

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By Meredith Perkins On Monday, April 10, Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, delivered a lecture in the spring 2023 colloquium series sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. … Continue reading

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Political Decay, Nationalism, and Rhetoric in Serbia and Russia

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By Ethan Kopp Professor Veljko Vujacic’s March 6 lecture on nationalism, populism, and rhetoric in Serbia and Russia as a result of political decay powerfully illustrated comparable themes between Milosevic’s Serbia and Putin’s Russia. The first lecture in the spring … Continue reading

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Tiny Details in a Big World: Robin Feuer Miller’s “Dostoevsky Writ Small”

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By Natasha Netzorg and Izzy Tice On October 18, 2021, Dr. Robin Feuer Miller delivered the third lecture in the Havighurst Center Fall Colloquium Series, Dostoevsky at 200. Miller, Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and is … Continue reading

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Caryl Emerson: Between Fantasy and Terror

By Joseph Sweetser-Puckett Dr. Caryl Emerson, Armour Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, visited Miami University on Wednesday, November 3, for a lecture synthesizing her half-century of work on Mikhail Bakhtin and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Over the … Continue reading

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Going Against the Grain: Dispelling the Myth of Dostoevsky’s Anti-Darwinism

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By Brady Knox On Monday, November 15, 2021 Dr. Brendan Mooney gave the final lecture in the fall colloquium series “Dostoevsky at 200” sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. In his fascinating lecture, “Going against the … Continue reading

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