Category Archives: Lecture Reviews

Student reviews of guest lectures

Secrets and Truths in Romania

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Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962, with Gail … Continue reading

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Bulgarian Gambits

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By Beau Samples OXFORD, OH – Yana Hashamova, the Director of Slavic Studies at The Ohio State University, spoke on “Looking for the Great Balkan (Br)other” on April 21. She focused her lecture on the recent Russian blockbuster movie The … Continue reading

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Plutopian Legacies

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By Kim Foster Dr. Kate Brown, of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, gave a lecture on April 14 at Miami University, entitled “Soviet History and the Global Horizon,” which addressed the current state of Russian and post-Socialist studies and … Continue reading

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War and Memory in Eastern Europe

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By Caroline Johnson The lecture series organized as part of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies recently welcomed Dr. Karen Petrone of the University of Kentucky to present on the war memory of WWI and WWII in relation … Continue reading

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Justice as Unfairness: Robert Hayden’s Lecture

By  Dennis Kontorovich– In the lecture, “Justice as Unfairness”, given by Robert M. Hayden, from University of Pittsburgh, various issues concerning fairness, judicial action, and transitional justice were discussed. The most important argument that was made in this lecture was … Continue reading

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The Iron Curtain as Semi-Permeable Membrane

By Caroline Johnson– Michael David-Fox recently presented at Miami University for a lecture series organized as part of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.  His lecture identified the Soviet Union during the Cold War as possessing a “semi-permeable … Continue reading

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