Distinguished Professor to Present Carleton’s Herbert P. Lefler Lecture
Sheila Fitzpatrick of the University of Chicago will deliver Carleton College’s Department of History Winter Term Herbert P. Lefler Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. in Leighton Hall, room 305. Entitled “Writing Soviet History During the Cold War,” Fitzpatrick’s presentation is free and open to the public.
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"Times New Roman"">Dr. Fitzpatrick, the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, earned her PhD from Oxford University. She specializes in the history of modern Russia, particularly the social and cultural history of the Stalinist era, with a focus on everyday life and social identity. Current projects include work on Soviet society under Khrushchev, but she is also engaged in research beyond Russia, including a focus on displaced persons in Germany after the Second World War and on the Australian Left.
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"Times New Roman"">Fitzpatrick received a 2002 Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award and is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a past President of the American Association for Slavic and East European Studies. She is the author or editor of numerous books including Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton University Press, 2005), Stalinism: New Directions (Routledge, 2000), and Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford University Press, 1999).
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"Times New Roman";color:black">The Herbert P. Lefler Lecture is a series of endowed lectures in history, with the aim of bringing to Carleton historians who have raised significant questions relevant to history as a whole. Lefler lecturers give public presentations on their latest research, and conduct a seminar session with history majors regarding the major conceptual issues. Lecturers also meet with students enrolled in the junior year history colloquium, a class designed to examine the fundamental questions on the nature and importance of the discipline of history. Past lectures have ranged across a wide variety of topics, from “The Birth of Feudalism” to “Nationalist Movements in Southern Africa” to “Nuclear Weapons in American Thought and Culture.”
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"Times New Roman"">This event is sponsored by Carleton College’s History Department. Leighton Hall is located at the north end of College Street. For further information or disability accommodations, contact nlambert@carleton.edu or call (507) 222-4217.
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