REEES’ at the University of Pittsburgh and the SRB Podcast Presents:
The Specter in the Present: Trauma and its Legacies in Eurasia
“Trauma has become a major signifier of our age,” Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman declared in Empire of Trauma. Nowhere is this more evident than in Eastern Europe and former Soviet states. Trauma permeates the region: in social relations, politics, historical memory, national identity, geopolitics, and war. Moreover, scholars have increasingly turned to trauma as a social-historical manifestation and analytic.
REEES Fall 2022 series, The Specter in the Present: Trauma and its Legacies in Eurasia, will explore the place of trauma in Eurasia society in four interviews that pair scholars to discuss social and clinical trauma, victimhood, historical memory, and the politics of history in the region.
All events in this series will be held online.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Working Through Stalinism
10 am – 11:30 EDT
A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Polly Jones, Oxford University AND Zuzanna Bogumil, Polish Academy of Sciences
Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f7wz1z-6RHmzCLL7cnURvQ
THURSDAY , OCTOBER 13
Between Memory and History in Ukraine
12 pm EDT – 1:30 EDT
A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Victoria Smolkina, Wesleyan University AND Georgiy Kasianov, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TG8-Rxx3RWGjOrxqrtSHdw
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Environmental Scars on Central Asia
12 pm EDT – 1:30 EDT
A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Togzhan Kassenova, SUNY-Albany AND Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University
Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SL_LJptJR9COcV38vzk8Qw
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Mental Health on the Frontline in Ukraine
12 pm EDT – 1:30 EDT
A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Alex Dombrovski, University of Pittsburgh AND Carmen Andreescu, University of Pittsburgh
Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o3brbehHQyOKbSJW3nj5Zg
Playlists of past series:
Spring 2022: Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/spring-series-2022
Fall 2021: The Soviet World in the Long 1970s
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/soviet-world-long-1970s
Spring 2021: Nature’s Revenge
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/nature%E2%80%99s-revenge-ecology-animals-and-waste-eurasia
Fall 2020: US and Russia
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/distant-friends-and-intimate-enemies-us-and-russia
Spring 2020: Socialism
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/resources/spring-2020
Fall 2019: Nuclear Fallout
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/nuclear-fallout-science-and-society-eurasia
Spring 2019: Spying, Archiving, Reporting
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/spying-archiving-reporting-information-eastern-europe
Fall 2018: Youth in Eurasia
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/speaker-series/youth-in-eurasia