Sergey Markedonov is a visiting fellow in the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. He is an expert on the Caucasus, as well as Black Sea, regional security, nationalism, interethnic conflicts and de-facto states in the post-Soviet area. His publications include several books and reports, 50 academic articles, and more than 400 press pieces.

EU simulation on Turkish accession to the European Union.

The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. This talk will offer a distinction between generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations.

Lecture “Mediascapes of the Cold War” by Short-Term Fellow Katie Trumpener (Yale).

Lecture by Horst Lange (Central Arkansas), "On the Complexities of Religious Discourse in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Goethe."

From medieval pogroms to modern racial science, Jewish history in Europe has come to stand as a test case for thinking about problems of historical continuity and change, embodied most clearly in the tension between narratives emphasizing a timeless antisemitism and arguments for the distinctive mentalities associated with discrete historical periods.

Sarah Alison Miller joined the Classics department at Duquesne University in 2008. Professor Miller received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008). Her book, Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body (Routledge 2010), argues that the female anatomy and its physiological processes were marked as “monstrous”
in medieval medical, erotic, and religious literature.

Russell E. Martin is Professor of History at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Penna.   He took his BA in History from the University of Pittsburgh (1986) and his Master's (1989) and Ph.D.

Friday, February 24, Keynote speech by Dr. Eugene Huskey, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.