On Thursday, March 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Zarrow 145, Dr. Karen Petrone of the University of Kentucky will deliver a talk titled "Vladimir Putin and Russian Memory of World War II" as part of a larger series of events organized in conjunction with the 80th anniversary of the end of the war. Dr. Petrone is co-director of the UK-JHF Holocaust Education Initiative and has written extensively on war and memory.
This spring, in connection with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Romanoff Center, the Honors College, and the Department of History are co-sponsoring a film series on World War II and Memory that includes works made in a variety of different countries and decades. Screenings include:
Tuesday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. Bizzell LL1 Common Room. William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (USA; 1946)
Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. Bizzell LL1 Common Room. Alexei German’s Trial on the Road (USSR; 1971)
Tuesday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. Bizzell LL1 Common Room. Konrad Wolf’s I was Nineteen (Germany, 1968)
On Monday, March 10, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Kaufman 221B, Lily Lohrey Terry will deliver a talk titled "The Fulbright Experience and Where It Can Take You." Lily is an OU alumna (BA in Russian and IAS; MA in Global Economics and Infrastructural Development) and now works as a research analyst at the Greater OKC Chamber of Commerce. She will be returning to OU as a TW Adams Professor-for-the-Day. She received a Fulbright award while finishing her degrees at OU and spent a year in Moldova. Following her talk, Maura McAndrew, OU's Fulbright coordinator, will speak with students in attendance about the Fulbright application process. The Romanoff Center is grateful to the TW Adams Distinguished Alumni Lecture Program for its support of this event.
On Thursday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in Zarrow 145, The Romanoff Center will host a book launch for Dr. Dustin Condren's An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell University Press, 2024). Dr. Ben Peters of the University of Tulsa will serve as the commentator at the launch. Please join us to celebrate Dr. Condren's monograph!
On Thursday, April 24 at 4:30 p.m. (location TBA), Dr. Oleg Kashirskikh will deliver a talk titled "The Neo-liberal 'Regime of Truth' as a Framework for Legitimizing War and Mobilization in Russia." Dr. Oleg Kashirskikh earned his Ph.D. at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (Würzburg, Germany. He served as a professor of communication at the School of Communication at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (2007–2023). Since 2023, Dr. Kashirskikh has been living in Germany where he teaches courses on contemporary political discourse in the post-communist region, on political communication, and research methods. His work has been published in several academic journals, including The European Journal of Communication and The International Journal of Strategic Communication. Currently, Oleg Kashirskikh is a short-term scholar at Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication (OU), as well as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Russia Program (GWU).
