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By Grace Farrell Miami University’s Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies hosted a series of storytellers this spring, including Ukrainian POW Maksym Butkevych and “foreign agent” Katerina Gordeeva. The Russian state officially designates anyone who accepts foreign … Continue reading
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By Eliza Sullivan After an enlightening semester, Miami University’s Havighurst Colloquium class had its final guest speaker on Monday, November 17. The speaker, Dr. Neringa Klumbyte is a professor of anthropology and European studies at Miami University. She gave a … Continue reading
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By Jade Schram On Thursday, October 16, 2025, the Havighurst Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies hosted Dr. Benjamin Nathans, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. … Continue reading
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By Nicole Payne October 20, 2025 Oxford, OH – Emil Draitser, a Professor Emeritus at the Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Soviet émigré, presented on his career producing satirical pieces during the mid-1960s through … Continue reading
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By Grace Farrell OXFORD, OH, October 13, 2025 —Is the narrative of a “propaganda state” too russocentric? This past Monday, Dr. Jonathon Dreeze, the third speaker in the Havighurst Colloquium’s fall lecture series, presented his research on Soviet propaganda in … Continue reading
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By Anastasija Mladenovska Oxford, OH. October 6, 2025 In the autumn of 1935, two unlikely ambassadors of Soviet humor embarked on one of the most unusual journeys of the interwar era. Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, satirists known at home … Continue reading
