MEGA-KRUZHOK: An Annual Meeting of Scholars of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire

March 21, 2025
Session 1: 12:30–1:30pm
ZHANARA ALMAZBEKOVA (Georgetown)
‘You, Of Course, Do Not Suspect Us as Colonizers’: The Women’s Day Holiday in Soviet Kyrgyzstan as Civilizing Mission
Discussant: BENJAMIN NATHANS (University of Pennsylvania)

Session 2: 1:40–2:20pm
ANASTASIIA LYSTSOVA (Princeton)
Sovereignty In Crisis: The Polish-Lithuanian Republic and the Expansionist Strategy of Catherine II.
Discussant: ERIC LOHR (American University)

Session 3: 2:30–3:30pm
STEPHAN SVESHNIKOV (Yale)
Russian Peasants at the End of the World: Constructing British Arctic Exploration (1894-1895)
Discussant: PETER HOLQUIST (University of Pennsylvania)

3:30–4:00 break.

Session 4: 4:00–4:50pm
SASHA ZBOROVSKY (University of Pennsylvania)
All In the Family: Reframing Post-War Jewish Emigration from the USSR
Discussant: ARTEMY KALINOVSKY (Temple)

Session 5: 5:00–5:50pm
AMIR SAIFULLIN (Universität Zürich)
From Amoeba to Socialism: The Cosmological “Harmony Between History and Nature” in Early Soviet Projectionist Art
Discussant: KEVIN PLATT (University of Pennsylvania)

March 22, 2025

Session 6: 10:00–10:50am
EMMA SIMMONS (Princeton)
Станочек, мой Станочек! Labor, Gender, and Affect in the Early Soviet Periodical Press
Discussant: MICHAEL DAVID-FOX (Georgetown)

Session 7: 11:00–12:00pm
GRIFFIN CREECH (University of Pennsylvania)
Stranger-Citizens: Buriyad Imperial Citizenship in the Steppe Dumas, 1822-1880
Discussant: EKATERINA PRAVILOVA (Princeton)

Session 8: 12:30–1:20pm
ANNA NATH (Rutgers)
The Book of Boredom: A Self, a Citizen, and a Subject at the Crossroads of Time
Discussant: MICHAEL GORDIN (Princeton)

Session 9: 1:30–2:30pm
AZAT BILALUTDINOV (Columbia University)
Ukrainian Diplomats in the Allied Occupied Istanbul: Nationalizing POWs, Refugees, and the Quest for International Recognition
Discussant: MICHAEL REYNOLDS (Princeton)

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER)

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