GSAS Lecture Series

Who Should Teach Whom to Read Tolstoy?: Curating the 1928 Centenary The People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment greeted the centenary of Leo Tolstoy's birth with some trepidation. In the words of one official: “An inept, politically illiterate approach to...

Co-sponsored with HURI.

"Words on Trial: The Journalistic Courtroom of Frida Vigdorova"

Dr. Timothy Harte (Chair and Associate Professor of Russian on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship in Russian, Bryn Mawr College) received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001, joining the faculty at Bryn Mawr a year later. His research interests center...

In the canon of Russian literature (and for that matter, Ukrainian literature), no writerly soul ever attracted so much attention, scrutiny, and speculation as Gogol. Details of Gogol’s life and death puzzled his close circle and intrigued the wider...

There is nothing natural about time, as self-evident it may seem to us. Ways to measure, organize, and celebrate the course of time reach deep into the cultural make-up of a country. Calendar reforms always elicit complex and consequential representations...

Alexander (Sasha) Spektor is an Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Georgia. He received his doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2008.

Sasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2010.