The Department of East European History at Humboldt University (Berlin) and the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at Tel Aviv University are pleased to invite you to a series of joint online workshops “Contemporary and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Russian and Soviet Modernity”
Contemporary and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Russian and Soviet Modernity
Our communication platform is open to all interested participants at any stage of their careers, including PhD candidates, early-career scholars, and tenured faculty. We warmly invite you to join the discussion.
All meetings will be held on Zoom and will include text discussions in English. Please register by 5 May 2026 at the following email address: oksana.nagornaia@hu-berlin.de We will send you texts and a zoom-link prior to the session
Programme
May 12, 2026, 14.00-16.00 CET
Elizaveta Olkhovaia (Bremen) “The Only Camp for Female ‘Politicals’”: History of Women’s Political Incarceration in the Late Soviet Union.
Yuri Radchenko (Kyiv) "I Knew... That I was a Karaite": Folk Religion, Identity and Traditions of the Karaites of Central and Eastern Europe (Based on Oral History Materials)
June 9, 2026, 14.00-16.00 CET
Michael Shurman (Bar-Ilan University) Glushkov's Cashless Project: An Alternative Communist Modernity, A Road Untraveled
Gabriela Radulescu (Berlin) Iosif Shklovsky's Late Cosmic Pessimism, Soviet Extraterrestrial Civilizations, and Reflexive Modernity