1917: The Russian Revolutionary Moment in Global Perspective
Gallery Room, Perkins Student Center
2 November 2017
8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Schedule:
Morning:
8:30 am Coffee and welcome
9:00 am – 11:30 am: Papers:
David Shearer, University of Delaware: The State that Was and Then Was Not: The Buryat-Pan- Mongolian Nationalist Movement, 1918-1920
Anna Kushkova, University of North Carolina: Russian Jews and the Revolution
Ali Igmen, CSU Long Beach: Between Nationalism and Communism, an Ottoman Pet’s Dilemma in 1917
Comment: Douglas Northrop, University of Michigan
Lunch: Vita Nova, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Afternoon 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm:
Arthur Schmidt, Temple University, Emeritus: A Tale of Two Revolutions: Bolshevism and Mexico, 1917-1940
Lisa Kirschenbaum, West Chester University: The Russian revolution and Spanish Communists
Richard Fogarty, SUNY Albany: A Revolutionary Moment Manqué? The Russian Revolution and Anticolonialism in the French Empire
Comment: Ram Rawat, University of Delaware
Summary:
Ronald G. Suny, University of Chicago, Emeritus, and University of Michigan
Sponsors: the Departments of History, Political Science and International Relations, and Women and Gender Studies, Center for Global and Area Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events (CAPE), Institute for Global Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Morris Library, University of Delaware Provost Office, Delaware Humanities Forum, Swarthmore College Library Peace Collection, and Provost’s Office of Swarthmore College.
