6th Carolina Seminar on "Russia and Its Empires, East and West"

Time: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Location:UNC FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 (directions follow at the bottom)
Lecture Title: The Second World's Third World


Sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the History Department, and Carolina Seminars
David Engerman is an associate professor of History at Brandeis University.

David C. Engerman will present "The Second World's Third World." David C. Engerman is Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University, where he has taught American and international history since receiving his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley in 1998. He is the author of Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development and has edited or co-edited two books and one special issue of a journal: The God That Failed (2001); Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (contributing an article, “East Meets West: The Center for International Studies and Indian Economic Development,” 2003); and "Modernization as a Global Project" (Diplomatic History, June 2009). His next book, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts, will be published by Oxford University Press in October 2009.

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Directions to the FedEx Global Education Center from Franklin Street coming from the east:

Turn LEFT onto S. Columbia St. from Franklin St. Follow the road through a couple of lights, it will force you to go right at the intersection by the Carolina Inn, and then take a LEFT turn onto Pittsboro St. You will pass the Carolina Inn on your left. At the next light, you will see the building in front of you.  It is next door to the School of Social Work and behind the Pharmacy School. There is free parking after 5pm in the lot below the building, with entrance on McCauley Street.
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