Events
The Havighurst Center hosts a number of events every semester, as well as acts as co-sponsor for events related to our focus organized by other departments and units. Please check back for changes, updates and additions.
Monday, February 5
Jessica Robbins-Panko, Wayne State University
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship and Personhood
Harrison Hall 313, 2:50-4:10pm
Tuesday, February 6
Ksenia Medvedeva, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)
Three Sisters and Poland: Eastern European Bonds Modified
Upham Hall 209, 11:40am-1:00pm
Tuesday, February 13
Bogdan Stefanescu, University of Bucharest
To Fall on Your S/word: The Perils of Political Humor against the Abuse of Power - An East European Example -
Kreger Hall 227, 1:15-2:35pm
Wednesday, February 21
Film screening: 20 Days in Mariupol
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more. This documentary recently made the shortlists for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.
Shideler 152, 4:30-6:30pm
Friday, February 23
Film Screening: The Guide
In the midst of turbulent early-1930s Soviet Ukraine, the father of 10-year-old Peter is killed for obtaining secret documents about the repressions, which now are hidden in Peter's book. The boy flees from the police with a blind kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), Ivan Kocherga. Ivan does everything to help his young guide grow up and survive with a kind and clear soul that will not be hardened by what his eyes have seen. The viewer is challenged to admit that the blind kobzar might see the world with greater clarity than those with perfect eyes.
Shideler 152, 3:30-5:30pm
Monday, February 26
Havighurst Center Colloquia Series: Revolutionary Russia
Anne O'Donnell, New York University
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
Harrison Hall 202, 11:40am-1:00pm
Thursday, February 29
Ariel Otruba, Arcadia University
Violent Infrastructure: Ecologies of Decay and Displacement
Dr. Otruba will discuss her research and traveling photovoice exhibition. This exhibition features a curated sample of photographs taken by ten internally displaced persons (IDPs), who were forced to flee the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhaz war. The pictures capture these IDPs’ three-decade-long experience living under abject and decaying “temporary" housing conditions in the former Soviet spa resort of Tskaltubo, Republic of Georgia. The photographs were collected as part of a feminist visual ethnography project studying the emotional impact of housing infrastructure quality on IDPs’ sense of identity, dignity, personhood, agency, and sense of futurity
King Library 320, 1:15-2:35pm
Monday, March 4
Havighurst Center Colloquia Series: Revolutionary Russia
Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University
Orthodox Believers’ Reactions to Bolshevik Militant Atheism in the Early Revolutionary Years
Harrison Hall 202, 11:40am-1:00pm
Thursday, March 7
Rita Miliute, journalist and host at Lithuanian National Radio
Annual Lithuania Lecture: From the Collapse of the USSR to the War in Ukraine
Harrison Hall 204, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
co-sponsored with The Humanities Center
March 11
Terrell Jermaine Starr, journalist
Covering the War in Ukraine as a Black Correspondent
Terrell Jermaine Starr is an independent journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine, covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. He is the founder and host of the Black Diplomats podcast, where he covers geopolitical issues. Terrell is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. He previously worked at The Root and Foxtrot Alpha, a blog that focuses on the military, technology, and policy.
Harrison Hall 304, 4:30-5:45pm
Co-sponsored with the Diane Stark Speaker Series in Journalism
March 13
Finch Lecture Series: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings Institution
Constanze Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at Brookings.
Shriver Center, Heritage Room, 4:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science
Monday, March 18 (Virtual)
Havighurst Center Colloquia Series: Revolutionary Russia
James Ryan, Cardiff University
The Life and Death of Justice: The Meaning of ‘Revolutionary Legality’ in the Soviet 1920s
Harrison Hall 202, 11:40am-1:00pm
Wednesday, April 10
Havighurst Center Colloquia Series: Revolutionary Russia
Francesca Silano, Providence College
Religion and the Russian Revolution
Harrison Hall 202, 11:40am-1:00pm
Thursday, April 18
Viktoriia Lomasko, artist
A Portrait of a Big History: A Russian Artist Draws the Past
Victoria ("Vika") Lomasko is a Russian graphic artist. Her work focuses on graphic reportage through the means of murals and graphic art in literature. In 2019, Vika came to Miami University as an artist-in-residency at the invitation of the Havighurst Center, during which she created the first of a series of murals in the U.S. and abroad. The mural, Atlases, can be seen on the third floor of King Library.
Vika's book "Other Russias" was translated into in six languages and received the Pushkin House Best Book in Translation 2018 award. Her latest book The Last Soviet Artist, was published in 2022; it is a chronicle of an artist reflecting on art in a region undergoing major political changes. Vika currently lives in exile in Berlin, Germany.
For examples of her reporting, visit: https://thenib.com/author/victoria-lomasko/
King Library 320, 4:30pm (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME)
Monday, April 22
Havighurst Center Colloquia Series: Revolutionary Russia
Stuart Finkel, Dartmouth College
In Defense of Enemies of the People: The Political Red Cross in Revolutionary Russia
Harrison Hall 202, 11:40am-1:00pm
Wednesday, April 24
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Film
“Song of Solomon”
Williams Hall Studio (107C), 6:30-8:30pm
Thursday/Friday, April 25-26
Journalism Symposium: Media and the Rise of Religious Nationalism Around the World
Religious nationalism is a potent trend around the world that connects divine justification for actions with national pride and identity. This mix has proved to be a prominent motivator in events ranging from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the 2020 Delhi Riots. In this round table we will address the ways that traditional and digital media amplify and reshape religious narratives and situate them at the heart of political movements. This discussion will bring together leading scholars who study the relationship between media and religious nationalism in Russia, India, and the Middle East. Drawing from their diverse experiences and knowledge, this conversation will shed light on the factors that lead to religious nationalism's popularity and the similarities and differences that are present in its expression in different cultural and political circumstances.This event is sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film.
Harrison Hall 210, 2:00-4:00pm
co-sponsored with the Diane Stark Speaker Series in Journalism