Juliet Johnson, professor of political science at McGill University, will explore in her talk Russia’s quest for national identity through the political struggles over Soviet and post-Soviet-era monuments.
Johnson’s research focuses on the politics of money and identity, particularly in post-communist Europe. She is the author of Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Cornell 2016), A Fistful of Rubles: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Cornell 2000), lead editor of Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Ashgate 2005) and author of numerous scholarly and policy-oriented articles.
✽ Thursday, March 9 at 7:00pm | Schapiro Hall, 129
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