The Curious Case of Rase in the Russian Empire (16-19cc)

Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Town Square with Ernie Manouse (88.7FM). In this episode, we opened our lines for listeners of Town Square to share their stories of their favorite teachers.

Memories of Stalin since the time of his death, from the Cold War to Putin's Russia today.

The Dean’s Marathon Reading (UH Honors College): a reading and discussion of Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor.”

What has made Russian culture world renowned? A public online lecture for the Women’s Institute of Houston that samples the literary, artistic, and architectural treasures of Russia from the past two hundred years.

A book panel and conversation on Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context, edited by David Rainbow (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019), featuring Dr. David Rainbow, Dr. Alexey Golubev (UH), Dr. Brigid O'Keeffe (Brooklyn College), and Dr. Richard Armstrong (UH).

Museum tour of the Eastern Orthodox icon collection—one of the largest outside of Russia—at the Menil Collection, Houston.

A public talk given at the Russian Cultural Center of Houston at the opening of a photography exhibit commemorating the life and work of the famous Soviet statesman Andrey Gromyko (1909-1989).

“Russia, America and the New Cold War,” a public talk at the University of Houston Grand Challenges Forum.

Gallery talk, “The Utopian and the Mundane: Russian Revolution,” for the opening of “Russia 1917,” a photography exhibit created through a partnership between the Russian Cultural Center of Houston and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (MAMM).