Carolina Seminar • Meme of Evil: The Catherinian Equine Myth and the 2022 Demolition of the Monument to the Founders of Odesa

Ernest (“Erik”) Zitser is the Librarian for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies and library liaison to the International Comparative Studies Program. Dr. Zitser, a native of Soviet Ukraine, received his Ph.D. in Russian History from Columbia University. Prior to coming to Duke, he worked consecutively as a post-doctoral Fellow, Center Associate, and Librarian of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He has held fellowships at the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies (UCLA), the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (Columbia University), the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, and the National Humanities Center. He will present the paper, entitled Meme of Evil: The Catherinian Equine Myth and the 2022 Demolition of the Monument to the Founders of Odesa.