Session 2:
Imperial Legacies and Soviet Histories
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 1:00-2:30 pm
Chair and Commentator: Erica Fraser
Presenters:
Alex Craver (Northern Illinois University, USA) – Nothing, They Say, Survived the Dandelions: Soviet Science, Stalinist Agriculture and the Global Political Economy of Rubber
Alex Craver is a PhD Candidate in History at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. He is interested in environmental history, Soviet history, and the history of science and technology.
Nicholas Chasse (McGill University, Canada) – Soviet-American Relations and the Vietnam War, 1964-73
Nicolas Chassé is a first-year master’s student in History (non-thesis) at McGill University. Nicolas’ research interests focus on international relations during the Cold War, with a specific emphasis on diplomatic history.
Cory Osmond (University of Toronto, Canada) – Foreshadowing Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe: The 1980-81 Polish Crisis & the Brezhnev Doctrine
Cory Osmond is a first-year Masters student at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Affairs at the University of Toronto. Previously, his thesis as a B.A. student at Ryerson University examined the 1980-81 Polish Crisis and the Brezhnev Doctrine. Cory’s research broadly focuses on German civil society throughout the 20 th Century, and his current major research paper examines the creation of East Germany’s civil society immediately following the Second World War. Additionally, he is interested in the legacy of the Second World War in East and Central Europe, as well as the politics of the European Union. Cory also serves his fellow graduate students as the CERES Graduate Student Union’s first-year representative.
Anna Kozlova (Carleton University, Canada) – Neither here nor there: National identity and belonging amongst Russian-German migrants
Anna Kozlova is a second-year PhD candidate at the Department of History at Carleton University. Anna holds a BA in Communication Studies with a Minor in Law from Carleton University and an MA in World Heritage Studies from the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. Her research interests are focused on migration, diaspora, oral history and transnationalism.