Centre for Russian Studies: Seminar Series 2010

Mondays 5.15pm - Room 433 SSEES (16 Taviton Street), London, WC1H 0BW

Centre for Russian Studies
Convenor: Maria Rubins

In 2009-2010 academic year, CRS will invite speakers working on innovative projects dealing with diverse themes and chronological periods, including in an interdisciplinary manner.

• Monday 25 January
  How Football Explains Soviet Life: The Case of Spartak, Moscow
  Robert Edelman (University of California, San Diego)

• Monday 22 February
  The Moscow Kremlin, or How Do Buildings Remember?
  Catherine Merridale (QMUL)

• Monday 8 March
  The Ruins as Authentic Alterity: Joseph and Alexander Brodsky's Meditations on the Necessity of Decay
  Professor Andreas Schönle (QMUL)

SSEES is pleased to welcome Professor Richard Wortman, from Columbia University, who will give a SSEES Guest Lecture, hosted by the Centre for Russian Studies, on 5 May 2010 at 5:15 in Room SR3, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens.

Richard Wortman, James Bryce Professor Emeritus of European Legal History, specializes in the history of imperial Russia. His most recent books are Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Volume One: From Peter the Great to the Death of Nicholas I (Princeton University Press, 1995), Russian translation, (OGI Press,2002), and the second volume of the work From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton University Press, 2000), (Russian translation, OGI Press, 2004), which was awarded the George L. Mosse prize of the American Historical Association. The two volumes were awarded the 2006 Efim Etkind prize of the St. Petersburg European University for the best western work on Russian culture and literature. His latest book is an abridged and revised one-volume version of Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II (Princeton University Press, 2006). In November 2007, he received the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies' highest award, for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Slavic Studies. His current work concerns representations of imperial power and the culture of rule of Russian monarchy.

Talks last 45-60 minutes. Wine will be served after the talks. Everyone is welcome.

Contact e-mail: Ben Chatterley b.chatterley@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7679 8771

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