Carolina Seminars, "Russia and Its Empires, East and West"
Fall 2009

For all events--
Time: 6:00pm
Location: UNC-CH FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009

Please email knagy@unc.edu for a copy of each paper.

Next lecture...

- Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 6:00pm
Robert Krikorian, “The Re-Appropriation of the Past: History and Politics in Soviet Armenia, 1988-1991”


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Previous Seminars...

- Wednesday, September 23, 2009 @ 6:00pm Dr. A. Sarah Krive, Assistant Director, Lloyd International Honors College, UNC-Greensboro Dr. Krive will bepresenting a chapter from the manuscript she is finishing, "Poetry and the Politics of Sorrow: Appropriating Anna Akhmatova." Sponsored by Carolina Seminars, the History Department, and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

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- Tuesday, October 13, 2009 @ 6:00pm
Leeza Ahmady, independent art curator, educator, and a noted specialist in art from Central Asia

Ahmady will give a lecture with slides and video as part of her ongoing curatorial project The Taste of Others, intended at promoting the largely unknown artists of Afghanistan, and the former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Bio
Lecture synoposis

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- Wednesday, November 18, 2009 @ 6:00pm canceled
Igor Fediukin, "The Empress and the 'Whore': The Curious Case of Anna Kunigunde Felker, alias Drezdensha"
Director for Policy Projects and Research Fellow, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

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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, turn left, then right into the parking lot or garage.  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/next to the building, with entrance on McCauley Street.
http://global.unc.edu/