Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Trade and Daily Life in the Manchurian City of Harbin from a Transcultural Perspective

DateTimeLocation
Wednesday, September 29, 20104:00PM - 6:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Frank Grüner, Assistant Professor in East European History at the University of Heidelberg, leads an interdisciplinary Junior Research Group within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg) on “Transgressing Spaces and Identities in Urban Arenas – the Case of Harbin (1898-1949).” His research focuses on Soviet and Russian history and culture. His publications include Patrioten und Kosmopoliten. Juden im Sowjetstaat 1941 bis 1953 (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2008); “Did Anti-Jewish Mass Violence Exist in the Soviet Union? – Anti-Semitism and Collective Violence in the USSR during the War and Post War Years. In: Journal of Genocide Research 11 (2009) 2-3, pp. 355-379; “Russia’s Battle Against the Foreign: The Anti-Cosmopolitanism Paradigm in Russian and Soviet Ideology”: European Review of History—Revue européenne d’histoire 17 (2010) 3, pp. 445-472.


Speakers

Frank Grüner
University of Heidelberg


Main Sponsor

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Sponsors

Department of History

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