Location Note
1219 International Affairs Building
420 W 118th Street, 12th floor
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Please join the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Sheila Fitzpatrick. Moderated by Catherine Evtuhov, Professor of History.
Sheila Fitzpatrick will discuss migration and displacement as prime topics for socio-cultural historians because of the self-re-invention that necessarily accompanies uprooting. Fitzpatrick draws on material from her work on Russians resettled in Australia after the Second World War and explores points of comparison and contrast with the experience of Russian resettlement at the same period in North America.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is a historian of modern Russia and twentieth-century migration who is a Professor at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago. Her recent books include: On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (2015), Mischa’s War (2017), White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia (2021), and The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (2022). She is currently writing a book on Soviet and Baltic “displaced persons” after the Second World War, Lost Souls, to be published by Princeton University Press.
