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Thanks to generous funding from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Slavic Department is able to invite our distinguished alumni to return to campus for a special lecture and consultation with our graduate students. Each speaker presents a...

GSAS Lecture: Iaroslava Strikha

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Co-sponsored with HURI.

GSAS Lecture: Rebecca Reich

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

GSAS Lecture: Tatyana Gershkovich

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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...

GSAS Lecture: Yuri Corrigan - “Dostoevsky on Evil, Before and After Auschwitz.”

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GSAS Lecture: Giorgio DiMauro - “Higher Education Administration as a Career Path after the PhD.”

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GSAS Lecture: Jacob Emery, "Aesthetics in the Clone Age"

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Jacob Emery, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, received his doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2006.

GSAS Lecture: Alexander Spektor, "Literature as Philosophy: Deconstructing Plato in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 'In the Pupil.'"

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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.

GSAS Lecture: Julia Bekman Chadaga, “Criminal Performance in Revolutionary and Post-Soviet Russia”

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Julia Bekman Chadaga, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at Macalester College, received her doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2003.

GSAS Lecture: Sasha Senderovich, "Scenes of Encounter: The "Soviet Jew" in Fiction by Russian Jewish Writers in America"

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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.

GSAS Lecture: Emily Van Buskirk, "Characters without Biography: the "New Prose" of Lydia Ginzburg and Varlam Shalamov.”

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Emily Van Buskirk is an Associate Professor of Russian and Czech literature at Rutgers University. She received her doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2008.

GSAS Lecture: Benjamin Paloff, “Genre Trouble: Zapiski, Parabiography, and Facticity in the Literature of Concentration Camps and Besieged Cities”

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Benjamin Paloff, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received his doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2007.