Workshop: Rethinking Borderlands

Thursday December 3, 2015
Memorial Library Room 126
3:30 to 5:00 pm

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

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