Workshop: Rethinking Borderlands

Kathryn Ciancia on Inter-war Poland Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Judd Kinzley on the Early People’s Republic of China Assistant Professor of History, UW–Madison Willard Sunderland on Imperial Russia Professor of History, University of Cincinnati This workshop will adopt a comparative perspective for rethinking the connections that exist between centers and peripheries. Focusing on three distinct regions, these papers seek to offer new insights into the negotiation over power and authority in national and imperial borderlands. With Discussant: Robert Kaiser Department of Geography, UW–Madison Sponsored with generous support from: the Alice D. Mortensen/Petrovich Chair in Russian History, the George L. Mosse Program in History, the Harvey Goldberg Center, the Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the Anonymous Fund and the Institute for Research in the Humanities Click to view event poster (pdf)