Conference 2024

Bridging East and West:

 

 

Interdisciplinary Insights from East Europe and Eurasia

21st Graduate Student Conference February 23-24, 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andy Bruno

Northern Illinois University

“Out-of-the-way Places, Non-humans, and State-Socialism: Reflections on the Environmental History of the Soviet Union in a Planetary Perspective”

Dr. Andy Bruno is an environmental historian of Russia and the Soviet Union with an interest in many aspects of human interactions with the natural world. His recent books Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy (2022) and The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History (2016) came out with Cambridge University Press. He has also published journal articles in Environmental History, Slavic Review, Kritika, Isis, The Russian Review, WIREs Climate Change, REGION, and the International Review of Social History and chapters in several edited volumes. Professor Bruno has been generously supported by various agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Program, NASA, and the History of Science Society.

 

The Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) invites graduate students from all disciplines to be a part of our vibrant annual conference! This year, we're diving into interdisciplinary insights from the East European and Eurasian region – a place where cultures, politics, and economies intersect to create a dynamic tapestry.

 
 
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