Category Archives: Lecture Reviews

Student reviews of guest lectures

The Semi-Permeable Iron Curtain

By Petr Podkopaev– Michael David-Fox is a co-founder of what has become a very important journal in the field, Kritika (which means critique in Russian).  With such a title, one should not be surprised to find out that David-Fox’s work … Continue reading

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Between Reform and Revolution

By Rachel Thomas– In his lecture “Between Reform and Revolution:  Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central Asia” Adeeb Khalid took his American audience into the early Soviet Union and left us with two eye-opening changes in perspective regarding the former … Continue reading

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Adeeb Khalid’s Central Asia

By James Nealy– Each semester, as a part of The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies’ colloquia series, Miami University hosts a series of lectures delivered by prominent Eurasian scholars from across disciplines. The first such presentation for this … Continue reading

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