Join us for a presentation by Dr. Ihor Lylo, a Ukrainian culinary historian, and a stimulating conversation about the protective role of Ukrainian food culture at the time of war. Learn how the gastronomic culture helps a country that is … Read more
Mira Markham is a PhD student at the UNC Department of History. Her dissertation examines how citizens in a rural region of Czechoslovakia engaged with state power while also maintaining and defending their traditional local identities, practices, and relationships during … Read more
Uzbeks in independent Uzbekistan often say that the younger generation do not value learning or traditions but only making money. But those who do succeed in wealth find that there are heavy moral demands placed on them by the community. … Read more
Social movements are shaking and shaping the world in the last century. Ranging from movements against authoritarian regimes in countries such as Serbia, Egypt, Venezuela, Burma, and Iran, struggles against racial and gender inequality and gun violence, to recent global … Read more
Alexey Golubev is an associate professor of Russian history and digital humanities at the University of Houston. His research interests lie in understanding the historical experience of 20th-century Russia and other socialist and post-socialist societies in the context of global … Read more
Pawel Kowal is a Polish politician, political scientist and historian. Currently a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm), he was a secretary of state in Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007), … Read more
Eren Tasar is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (OUP, 2017). The seminar series is co-sponsored by … Read more
Dr. Stephen Riegg is an associate professor of history at the Texas A&M University. His research and teaching interests revolve around the histories of Modern Europe, Imperial Russia, and the Caucasus. His award-winning book, Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and … Read more
Trevor Erlacher is a historian based in Pittsburgh, PA. He completed his PhD in Russian and East European History at UNC Chapel Hill in 2017 and is the author of Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography … Read more
Karen Auerbach is associate professor of history and Stuart E. Eizenstat Fellow at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She researches Polish Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries, including issues relating … Read more
