Papers

*For a copy of the pre-circulated papers for upcoming workshops, please email Anna Ivanova: annaivanova [at] g.harvard.edu. For copies of previously presented papers, please contact the authors directly (see below)

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

September 29, 2016
Marysia Blackwood (History Department, G6): "Factions and Factionalism in Early Soviet Kazakhstan, 1919-1929"
Contact: mblackwood [at] fas.harvard.edu
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October 13, 2016
Ben Goossen (History Department, G3): "Domesticating the 'Golden Horde': Race, Media, and the Kalmyk Emigration from Postwar Europe"
Contact: bengoossen [at] g.harvard.edu
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October 27, 2016
Tomasz Blusiewicz (History Department): "Kaliningrad, Pribaltika, Leningrad: Trade and Cold War in Soviet Port Cities"
Contact: blusiewicz [at] fas.harvard.edu
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November 10, 2016
Anna Graber (Davis Center Fellow): " 'Useful and Remarkable Discoveries': Mineral Science at Eighteenth-Century Mines and Factories"

December 1, 2016
Marysia Blackwood (History Department, G6): Title TBA
Contact: mblackwood [at] fas.harvard.edu
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April 23, 2015
Ben Goossen (History Department, G1): "World War, World Confession: International Violence and Mennonite Globalization, 1914-1932"
Contact: bengoossen [at] g.harvard.edu
Website

April 9, 2015
Thomas Hooker (History Department, G6): "Khrushchev, Communist Morality, and Administered Friendship"
Contact: tshooker [at] fas.harvard.edu
Website

March 26, 2015
Brandon Bloch (History Department, G3): "Fractured Faith: Protestantism, Moral Conflict, and the Nation in Postwar Germany" (Dissertation Prospectus)
Contact: bloch [at] fas.harvard.edu
Website

March 12, 2015
Megan Duncan Smith (History Department, G3): "Taming the Rapids: The Cultural, Technological, and Environmental Transformation of the Dnieper River, 1837-1972" (Dissertation Prospectus)
Contact: duncansmith [at] fas.harvard.edu
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February 26, 2015
Greg Afinogenov (History Department, G6): "The Wages of Ignorance: Russia and Europe in Northeast Asia, 1772-1816"
Contact: afinogen [at] fas.harvard.edu
Website

February 12, 2015
Ben Goossen (History Department, G1): "Mennonites and the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine"
Contact: bengoossen [at] g.harvard.edu
Website

January 29, 2015
Kathryn Dooley (History Department, G5): "Manufacturing 'National Forms': Soviet Policy and the Production of Central Asian Goods, 1917-1945"
Contact: dooley [at] fas.harvard.edu
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December 4, 2014
Rachel Koroloff (Davis Center Fellow): “Via the Volga: Medicinal and Botanical Plant Collection Along Russia's Southern Borders in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century"
Contact: rachelkoroloff [at] gmail.com
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November 18, 2014
Erin Hutchinson (History Department, G2): “Soviet Culture and Monuments to the Great Patriotic War in Armenia and Moldova"
Contact: erinhutchinson [at] fas.harvard.edu
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November 6, 2014
Mihály Kálmán (Jewish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, G?):  “The Union of Jewish Soldiers: Between Zionism, Internationalism, and Ukrainian Nationalism, 1917-1918”
Contact: mkalman [at] fas.harvard.edu
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October 23, 2014
Thomas Hooker (History Department, G6): “How Friendship was Tempered: Friendship, Comradeship, and Collectivism, 1917-1936”
Contact: tshooker [at] fas.harvard.edu
Website

October 9, 2014
Faith Hillis (University of Chicago, Davis Center Senior Fellow): “France, Russia, and the Global Imagination: Fin-de-Siècle Exchanges and the Making of Anti-Liberal Politics”
Contact: hillis [at] uchicago.edu
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