The Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Research Group cordially invites you to the meeting in the Research Seminar Series 2016/2017 entitled:
Entangled and Imperial Modernities: If I Could Re-Write Crossing Borders, What Would It Say?
Michael David-Fox
(Georgetown University / Higher School of Economics in Moscow)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017, at 7 PM, in Nador 11, room 004
On March 7th we invite you to join us for a discussion on the book “Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russian and the Soviet Union” by Michael David-Fox. The monograph opens up new opportunities for the analysis of modernity, ideology and cultural transformation in the early period of the Soviet history. The analysis is conducted through the prism of multiple modernities theory that emphasizes complex multilateral nature of the Soviet reality in transnational perspective.
About the lecturer:
Michael David-Fox, professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University and Scholarly Advisor at the Center for the History and Sociology of the Second World War and its Consequences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
All students, faculty and staff members are welcome to attend!
Organized by:
Charles Shaw, Ksenia Litvinenko, Sofia Lopatina, Yan Mazitov (SPSS Research Group)
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