Research seminar on East European and Eurasian History
Research Seminar on East European and Eurasian History organised by Juliane Fürst (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History – ZZF) and Robert Kindler (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
Where: Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin, room 101
When: 2 May-18 July 2024, 4-6 p.m.
Program
2 May 2024: Michael Gordin (Princeton): After Soviet Science: Russia and Ukraine, 1986-2022
16 May 2024: Siobhan Hearne (Manchester): AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union: Imagining Alternative Futures Beyond Soviet Power
30 May 2024: Alissa Klots (Pittsburgh): The Restless Generation: Soviet Retirees and the Meanings of Active Old Age, 1950s-1970s
Additional presentation, 10 June 2024: Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi): The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire (book presentation) Venue: Koserstr. 20, room 336, 4-6 p.m.
13 June 2024: Walter Sperling (Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa, Bonn): Vor den Ruinen von Grosny. Leben und Überleben im multiethnischen Kaukasus (Buchvorstellung)
20 June 2024: Stefan Rindlisbacher (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder): Separated by an Axe? The National Delimitation of Central Asia in 1924
4 July 2024: Roundtable: Corinne Geering (GWZO Leipzig) & Anastasia Felcher (CEU): (Re)-Appropriation from Below: Cultural Heritage, Museums and Grassroots Movements
18 July 2024: Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Naples): The “Turkmen Phenomenon”: The May 1989 incidents in Ashgabat and Nebit-Dag, and the liquidation of the opposition in Soviet Turkmenistan