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Faculty Profile: Maria Alley

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Upcoming Events

  • November
    18
    REEES Working Group

    SIDEGIG Launch Party

    A lunch celebration of a video podcast hosted by Kevin M. F. Platt and Paul Saint-Amour.

    Join us for a celebration of SideGig, a video podcast hosted by Kevin M. F. Platt ...

  • November
    18
    REEES Working Group

    She-Bears, House Spirits, and Baba Yaga: Folkloric Characters and Motifs in Contemporary Russian Literature

    An Author Talk with Evgenia Nekrasova

    Evgenia Nekrasova is a Russian feminist writer and poet, as well as the co-founder of the School of Modern Literature Practices in Moscow. Her plays have been staged in the main experimental theaters in Moscow and other cities. Her novel...

  • November
    19

    Russian Converstion

    Advanced Russian (3rd year and up)
  • November
    19
    REEES Working Group

    “Ukraine and Russia: Writing History in the Time of War”

    Serhii Plokhy, Ukrainian History, Harvard University, and Ben Nathans, HISTORY, Upenn--- East European History and Culture Workshop

    Serhii Plokhy

    ...

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  • 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.

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  • Julia Alekseyeva, interviewed by Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

    READ here: This Camera Kills Fascists

  • By our very own Dr. Kristen Ghodsee

    The other Great Depression, by Kristen R Ghodsee (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2024)

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745 Williams Hall
255 S 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
phone: (215) 898-8704
fax: (215) 573-7794
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Kevin M.F. Platt
746 Williams Hall
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Undergraduate Chair

D. Brian Kim
Williams Hall 752
dbkim@sas.upenn.edu

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