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January 28, 5pm.

Spotlight: Kristen Ghodsee

Klyuchevskaya Sopka

Upcoming Events

  • January
    28
    REEES Working Group

    Aoua Kéita, Yugoslav Women, and Global Socialist Feminisms

    This talk examines the transnational political friendships forged between Malian activist Aoua Kéita and Yugoslav socialist women, particularly members of the Conference for Women’s Social Activity (KDAŽ).  Drawing on correspondence, reports, and...

  • February
    4
    REEES Working Group

    Translingualisms: Dislocating Poetry

    A poetry reading and conversation with Eugene Ostashevsky and Inna Krasnoper.

    Reception to follow the talk.

  • April
    2
    REEES Working Group

    Graduate Conference: ‘Eurasia’ Across/Beyond Borders: Migration, Mobility, & Translation

    Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Threory & Russian and East European Studies Department University of Pennsylvania

    Please watch this site for details!

     Call for Papers:

     Every map...

  • April
    14
    REEES Working Group

    My Dreadful Body

    A conversation with the book's author, Egana Djabbarova

    Egana Djabbarova, born in 1992 into an Azerbaijani family in Yekaterinburg, Russia, is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is the author of several collections of poetry. Having been forced to flee Russia in 2024 because of her LGBTQ activism and...

Latest News

  • The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism

    An article in Jacobin by Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee. Here: The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism

  • What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera, A Guest Post by Kristen Ghodsee

    Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published Kristen Ghodsee's first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea.

  • Penn professors launch European Studies Institute, revitalize European studies minor

    HERE

  • Julia Alekseyeva, interviewed by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

    READ here: This Camera Kills Fascists

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