Five College Slavic Seminar serves as a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss work in progress.
In the 2011-12, the Slavic Seminar meetings will be held at the Lewis Sebring Hall on the campus of Amherst College.
Speakers in the Slavic Seminar in 2011-12:
October 20 (7PM, Lewis Sebring, Amherst College):
Regine Spector (Smith College)
" All in the Family?” Property Struggles and Patronage Politics in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
November 16
Irina Sandomirskaia (Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn university, Sweden)
Exhausted Theory, or Stalin as Language: Reading Marxism and Problems of Linguistics (1950).
Spring 2012
Date TBA Lauren McCarthy (UMass-Amherst)
Background paper for Regine Spector's presentation.