Online Lecture
Alexei I. Miller
On the ruins of two empires: Identity politics in contemporary Russia
WEDNESDAY, 31 MARCH 2021
TIME: 10 AM (MDT, UTC-6) | 12 PM (EDT, UTC-4)
The lecture will be also live-streamed on the CIUS Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/canadian.institute.of.ukrainian.studies)
The lecture will address several aspects of identity politics in Russia, such as how people there think about nation, ethnicity, irredentism, sovereignty, and great power status. Russia’s relations with Europe will be examined as well.
Alexei I. Miller is a professor of history and director of the Center for Memory Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg. He is currently also a visiting professor at the Central European University (Budapest and Vienna). He has taught and lectured at many universities across the globe, from Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford to Paris, Berlin, and London. Among his authored or co-authored books for CEU Press are The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (2003), Imperial Rule (with Alfred J. Rieber; 2004), The Romanov Empire and Nationalism: Essays in the Methodology of Historical Research (2008), The Convolutions of Historical Politics (with Maria Lipman; 2012), and Nationalizing Empires (2014), as well as many other books about Russia.