Russia's War on Ukraine and Its Consequences for the World: A Weekly Q&A
An Online Series
Friday, October 7, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Zoom Meeting
The course and consequences of Russia's war on Ukraine are growing ever more unpredictable. We invite you to join Professors Steven Barnes of George Mason University and Cynthia Hooper of the College of the Holy Cross in virtual conversation about the week's events and the experiences and opinions of ordinary people caught up in this terrible conflict. Taking questions from audience members and from each other, these scholars aim to encourage community discussion of difficult issues relating to the war, the obligations of nations and individuals affected by it, the workings of propaganda and dictatorial power, and the future of the international world order. These informal gatherings are intended to serve as opportunities to exchange and explore ideas, as the hosts bring their training as historians to bear in adding to our understanding of a critical and rapidly unfolding global crisis.
Come join us for a lively interactive discussion!
Cynthia Hooper is Associate Professor of History and head of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. She has extensive research experience having spent several years in the Russian cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, and Samara. She has published widely on aspects of Soviet dictatorship during the Stalin era, particularly on the experience of repression and the actions and attitudes of those involved in its organization and practice. Since the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2014, she has specialized in the study of contemporary Russian media strategies, writing on the subject for, among others, the
Washington Post,
Chicago Tribune, the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and for
The Conversation. She has been featured on CNN, Bloomberg News, ITV, and NPR,
Steven Barnes is Director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History. He has engaged in research on the history of the Soviet forced labor camp system, the Gulag, including extensive field research in Russia and Kazakhstan. He is the author of the multiple award-winning Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society and is at work on a new book Gulag Wives: Women, Family, and Survival in Stalin's Terror, which traces women’s lives in a camp for elite women arrested only for the fact that their husbands had been arrested during the height of Stalin’s Great Terror. He is also the organizer of Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective, an online Monday speaker series for the fall of 2022.
