CREES Events - Fall 2020

Wednesday, September 2, 4 pm: Open house for CREES majors, minors, and MA students - 4PM

By invitation only

 

Wednesday, September 9, 4 pm: Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University): “’Our Friend Angela’: The Black Communist Star” (Russia and Race Lecture Series)

Link to register: https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-mqrz8qEtDYfDTUn5RWBjJp1wF1qOuX

 

Thursday, September 17, 4 pm: Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon (University of Pennsylvania): "Russia and Blackness: African American and African Experience in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia” (Russia and Race Lecture Series)

Link to register:  https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuirqz0iEt25M3C6xfPwi-5A4plOyAlY

 

Tuesday, September 29, 12 pm: Steven Mutz (Metropolitan Community College and Highland Community College): "Back to a Future USSR: Worth the Cost?" (CREES Research Series)

Zoom links to follow.

 

Thursday, October 1, 4 pm: Anne Lounsbery (New York University): “On Teaching American Students how ‘Race’ Works in Russia” (Russia and Race Lecture Series)

Link to register:   https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd-6orzooEtXv5wrFbkIuyd3M2S2Cm_ad

 

Thursday, October 8, 4 pm: Anika Walke (Washington University in St. Louis): “Was Soviet Internationalism Anti-Racist? Toward a History of Foreign Others in the USSR” (Russia and Race Lecture Series)

Link to register:    https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckf-igqjorHt2_ng3nXWobN5Am-rakvQBL

 

Friday, October 16, 4 pm: Nathaniel Knight (Seton Hall University): “Understanding Race in Imperial Russia: Categories of Difference Across Cultures” (Russia and Race Lecture Series)

Link to register:    https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdeChpzsjHdONQhzvkLPAMTxW8JYpxhK0

 

Tuesday, October 20, 12 pm: Devin McFadden (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, KU): "Public Intellect and Literacy Realist: Reading Sofya Kovalevskaya in Nihilist Girl" (CREES Research Series)

Zoom links to follow.

 

Thursday, October 29, 4 pm: Discussion Panel “Trump-Biden in the Eyes of Eastern European News Media. What’s U.S. Election Coverage Like in Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, and Serbia?”

Link to register:    https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOGurjMpG9QaNmy4lutKzFSM8hjnnrxQ