Elena Trubina is a professor of social theory and philosophy at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where she also directs the Center for Global Urbanism. Her book Gorod v teorii took issue with the Eurocentrism of urban theories … Read more
Join us for this Global Studies Seminar to celebrate and engage in conversation about Chad Bryant's (UNC History and the Curriculum in Global Studies) new book, Prague: Belonging in the Modern City (2021, Harvard University Press). In this book, Bryant … Read more
Dr. Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Professor of Russian Politics at King’s College London. Her research interests focus on Russian national and regional politics, political economy, and social psychology. She is the author of The Red Mirror: Putin’s Leadership and Russia’s Insecure … Read more
Dr. Diana Dumitru has authored over forty articles and two books. Her second book, "The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Currently, Dr. Dumitru … Read more
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly gained dominance of liberal democracy as a political regime was accompanied by a new dominance of liberal democracy as a descriptive language. Concepts of political science, sociology, and economics which had … Read more
Dr. Corey Johnson (UNC-Greensboro) will present on "Inextricable Networks: Building an Integrated Gas Infrastructure between Europe and Russia." ‣ Paper abstract Amid more intense scrutiny of Europe's “dependence” on Russian natural gas, in this paper I examine the evolution of … Read more
Stephen Riegg will present on “Divine Diplomacy: the Armenian Church and the Russian state, 1825-55.” Stephen Riegg is a PhD candidate in the History Department at UNC - Chapel Hill. Building upon eighteen months of fieldwork in the archives of … Read more
Donald J. Raleigh: "Man of Peace: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev and His Diaries." Bio: Donald J. Raleigh is the Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of Russian History at UNC. He has authored, translated, and edited numerous books on modern Russian history … Read more
Dr. Marko Dumancic | "Crashing Against Cold War Borders: Soviet Cinema Meets the French New Wave" Bio: Marko Dumančić is Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University. He works on a range of topics relating to Soviet cinema in both a … Read more
