Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
When: | Thursday, January 28th, 2021 |
Time: | 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm |
Location: | Via Zoom conference calling |
Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty |
Contact: | Stephanie Bos , stephaniebos@cunet.carleton.ca |
Author Meets Readers invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.
About the Book:
Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as “friendship of peoples” alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole.
About the Author:
Dr. Sahadeo’s interests include diaspora, migration, and empire in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. A specialist on Central Asia and the Caucasus, he has conducted fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan as well as Russia. He has authored Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923, and his most recent book, Voices from the Soviet Edge, won the Canadian Association of Slavists book prize for 2019. He is currently working on the intersection between nature and society through a study of rivers in tsarist and Soviet Georgia.
About the Panelists:
Erica Fraser is a historian of Russia with a particular interest in gender and culture in the Soviet Union during the 20th century. Fraser’s work examines the gender and cultural impact of military institutions; how masculinities were constructed and maintained across the Soviet century; daily life for population groups such as youth, conscripts, working mothers, athletes, and scientists; sports and leisure in communist states; popular culture in the late Cold War; and how culture(s) worked in tandem with political and economic priorities to produce distinctly Soviet experiences.
Paul Stronski is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, where his research focuses on the relationship between Russia and neighboring countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Until January 2015, Stronski served as a senior analyst for Russian domestic politics in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He was director for Russia and Central Asia on the U.S. National Security Council Staff from 2012 to 2014, where he supported the president, the national security advisor, and other senior U.S. officials on the development and coordination of policy toward Russia. Before that, he worked as a State Department analyst on Russia from 2011 to 2012, and on Armenia and Azerbaijan from 2007 to 2010. A former career U.S. foreign service officer, Stronski served in Hong Kong from 2005 to 2007.
This event is part of the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival.
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