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One-time events
ICA International Film Festival, Summer 2009
Information forthcoming.
Alexander Dallin Lecture in Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
"Russia, Its Neighbors, and the U.S. Since 1991"
Thomas W. Simons, Jr.
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Lecturer in Government, Harvard University
Consulting Professor in 20th-Century International History, Stanford
University
Thurs., Nov. 5th
Co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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The 2009 Alexander Dallin Lecture in Russian, East European & Eurasian
Studies will be held on Thursday, November 5th: "Russia, Its
Neighbors, and the U.S. Since 1991," Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting
Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Lecturer in
Government, Harvard University, and Consulting Professor in 20th-Century
International History, Stanford University. This lecture is co-sponsored by
the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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CREEES MA alum Louis F. O'Neill '90, speaks out on Moldova Crisis on Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Read more>
O'Neill served as Ambassador and Head of Mission of the Organization for
Security and Co-operation In Europe's Mission in Moldova from 2006-2008. |
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Congratulations to Robert Crews, Assistant Professor of History,
who was named a 2009 Carnegie Scholars on April 14, 2009.
Professor Crews, author of For Prophet and Tsar:
Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
(Harvard, 2006) and co-editor of The Taliban and
the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard, 2008), will
pursue the research project "Muslims Without Borders?: Empires,
States and Transnational Communities."
For
The New York Times announcement click here>
For the Stanford Daily article click here> |
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Elif Batuman, teaching affiliate in Interdisciplinary
Studies in the Humanities, published the article "The Bells, How Harvard
Helped Preserve a Russian Legacy" in the April 27, 2009 issue of
The New Yorker. For an interview with
Batuman about the bells Click here>.
In 2007 Batuman received a PhD from Stanford in Comparative Literature
and was awarded the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
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Stanford University Libraries have recently acquired from
Tartu, Estonia the archive of Prof. Leonid Stolovich. Stolovich is a retired
professor of philosophy at Tartu University. He was one of the foremost
Soviet scholars in the field of aesthetics.
Read more>
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Stanford political science Professor Michael McFaul
has been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as special assistant
to the president for National Security Affairs and senior director for
Russian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council.
Read more>
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Joseph Frank, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
published "In Stalin's Trap" in the Feb. 26, 2009 issue of The New
York Review of Books. Frank's article offers a review of historian Orlando
Figures' latest book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's
Russia in Stalin's Russia. Read more>
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