Panel Discussion: Life After Communism

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 5:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall

FREE!

Panel discussion of the social and political changes in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades. Speakers will include Sophie Pinkham, author of Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016); Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art; Peter Rutland, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, and Professor of Government, of the College of Social Studies, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES); Victoria Smolkin, Assistant Professor of History, the College of Social Studies, and REES; and moderated by Clare Rogan, Curator, Davison Art Center, and Susanne Fusso, Chair and Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Organized in conjunction with the Davison Art Center exhibition Sasha Rudensky: Acts and Illusions. Sponsored by the Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program, and by the Davison Art Center.

Image: Sasha Rudensky, Bus Station, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 2004, from the series Remains, 30 x 37 inches. Chromogenic print. ©Sasha Rudensky, courtesy of the artist and Sasha Wolf Projects.

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