2022 11/09 Kalinin, Nicolosi, Semyonov

Was the War Inevitable?
Political Rhetoric & the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin

Presenters:
Riccardo Nicolosi, Boris Nikolaevich Goes to America: Yeltsin’s U.S. Congress Speech (1992) and the Question of a New Russian Political Rhetoric
Ilia Kalinin, Putin’s Rhetoric: Word and Deed

Discussant: Alexander Semyonov

Riccardo Nicolosi, Full Professor for Slavic Literatures at the LMU Munich. His research focuses on the literatures on the literatures on the literatures and cultures of Russia/Soviet Union and South Eastern Europe (Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia) from from 18th to 21st centuries. His latest publications explore the rhetorical and narrative interfaces between literature and science, with a specific focus on psychiatry, evolutionary biology, criminology, and on thought experiments in different disciplines.Nicolosi is currently working on a book called Modeling Counterfactual History in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia as well as on a project on early Soviet adventure literature.

Ilia Kalinin is Visiting Research Scholar at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). His research interests  include early Soviet Russia intellectual and  cultural history, practices of self-fashioning of  Soviet Subject, and the historical and cultural politics of contemporary Russia (post-soviet social  and cultural transformations; contemporary  Russian politics of history; modennization/ demodernizationand politics of identity in  contemporary Russia). Currently he is the editor in chief of the independent journal Versus: Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  His book History as Art of Articulation: Russian  Formalists and Revolution came out in NLO  (Moscow) in 2022.

Alexander Semyonov holds John J. McCloy ‘22 Professorship of History at Amherst College,USA. Semyonov’s research interests include political and intellectual history, history of empire and nationalism, global history, and contemporary politics of memory and history. Since 2000, he has been a co-founding member of the editorial board of Ab Imperio: Studies of New ImperialHistory and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. His articles appeared in Modern Intellectual History, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Zentrum fuer Deutschland-und Eurapastudien Working Papers, Ab Imperio and in multiple collections in many languages.

November 9, 2022 from 5-7 PM

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