Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies

Sawchen Lecture: Drs. Daniil Skorinkin & Alexey Vdovin, “Russian Digital Humanities: Spotlight on Russian Drama and Novels Corpora”

20 October 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on October 20 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Daniil Skorinkin and Dr. Alexey Vdovin of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Margarita Vaysman, “The Trouble with Nadezhda Durova: Historicizing Queer Celebrity in Russia”

30 October 2020 9:00 am

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Join us on October 30 at 9:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Margarita Vaysman of the University of St Andrews.

Sawchen Lecture: Ilya Vinkovetsky, “Using Literature in History, and History in Literature”

04 November 2020 11:00 am

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Join us on November 4 at 11 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Ilya Vinkovetsky of Simon Fraser University.

Sawchen Lecture: Quinn Dombrowski & Dr. Andrew Janco, “Computational Methods for Russian Literature: Current State and Future Directions”

17 November 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on November 17 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Quinn Dombrowski of Stanford University and Dr. Andrew Janco of Haverford College.

Sawchen Lecture: David Bamman, “Building Russian BookNLP”

08 December 2020 9:30 am

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Join us on December 8 at 9:30 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring David Bamman of the University of California Berkeley.

Sawchen Lecture: Barbara Henry, “Road, River, and Book: the Russian Literary Underworld”

26 January 2021 2:00 pm

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Join us on January 26 at 2:00 pm for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Barbara Henry of the University of Washington Seattle. This talk is part of the North American Dostoevsky Society’s Bicentennial Speaker Series.

Sawchen Lecture: Nick Mayhew, “Russian Sexual Politics: The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity”

16 March 2021 11:00 am

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Join us on March 16 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Nick Mayhew of Stanford University. This talk is co-sponsored by the Eurasia Research Cluster.

Sawchen Lecture: Philip Gleissner, “Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia: From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing”

26 March 2021 11:00 am

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Join us on March 26 at 11:00 am for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Philip Gleissner of Ohio State University.

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Vadim Shneyder, “Dostoevsky’s Capitalist Realism, or, Why Money Does Not Burn in The Idiot“

10 February 2022 12:30 pm

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Join us on February 10, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT for the virtual Sawchen Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Vadim Shneyder of UCLA. This event is co-sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society as part of their virtual speaker series.

Flash Teach-In on Ukraine

02 March 2022 2:30 pm

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This flash teach-in will offer brief historical background, contemporary context, and regional insight to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.