Hana Pichova specializes in twentieth century Czech prose. Most of her published work focuses on literature in exile, specifically on memory and nostalgia. Recently she published a book, The Case of the Missing Statue: A Historical and Literary Study of the Stalin … Read more
The Helsinki Final Act, signed in 1975 after three years of East-West negotiations, was a landmark in Cold War diplomacy and the culmination of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s strategy of détente. But the substance of the 35-country agreement only dimly … Read more
This presentation is based on Dr. Klara Peter's co-authored study on the long-term health effects of the early-life shocks caused by the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union during WWII. The study looks at individuals who, at the time of the … Read more
Focusing on the apparel industry, Dr. Pickles will discuss the broader issues raised in his new book Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Development. His presentation will focus on the integration of central and eastern European economies into … Read more
An increasingly vibrant Russian movement has developed over the last two decades to delegitimize, restrict, and criminalize abortion, even as rates of pregnancy termination decreased 5.5 times from 1989 to 2015. Contraceptive use is replacing abortion for routine fertility control, … Read more
In this talk, Dr. Katya Pertsova (Linguistics, UNC) will discuss corpus linguistics and specifically focus on the Russian National Corpus (RNC). Corpora (large collections of texts, often annotated with additional information) have become ubiquitous in social sciences and humanities because … Read more
Political scientists studying authoritarian regimes have focused on how dictators exercise top down control and how they dominate, intimidate and buy-off their citizens. While certainly much of authoritarianism can be captured in this image, the reality is that many contemporary … Read more
In this presentation, Dr. Andrea Bohlman (Music, UNC) will share some sound objects - a flexidisc, a map, a transcription, among others - to open a conversation about the role that sound and listening have had in creating knowledge about … Read more
Throughout the Cold War, policy-makers in the United States and its allies crafted strategy with one principal audience in mind: the Warsaw Pact, particularly the Soviet Union. This new book project by Dr. Simon Miles tests whether the strategic concepts … Read more
Hear from a panel of phenomenal UNC alumni in globally focused careers! Panelists represent a variety of career options: government, private industry, NGOs, and more. They will share their professional journeys from studying (like you!) at UNC, through the career … Read more
