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April 14:

Spotlight: Kristen Ghodsee

Tatlin's Tower

Upcoming Events

  • April
    1

    Russian Tea

    Topic: Space Day (Russian Films + Trivia)
  • April
    3
    REEES Working Group

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

    Sponsors: Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Russian and East European Studies Department University of Pennsylvania, English Department, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

    Conference Schedule:

    April 3rd

    10:00 AM - 11:40 AM: Session #1 Ottoman/Turkic Legacies

    (Session discussant: Dr. Rossen Djagalov, NYU) 

    1:30 PM...

  • April
    10
    Slavic Bazaar

    Slavic Bazaar 2026

  • April
    13
    REEES Working Group

    Thaw Era Abstraction—Aesop's Language?

    Penn History Kruzhok presents Jane Sharp (Art History, Rutgers)

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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255 S 36th St.
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Kevin M.F. Platt
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D. Brian Kim
Williams Hall 752
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