The CERCEC central seminar "1918-2018 - Russian, Caucasian, Central Asian and Central European Worlds: Sources and Methods. Fronts and Frontiers of the Empire" is held on Mondays from 5 pm to 7 pm, EHESS (room 2) - 105 bd Raspail 75006.

• 12 March 2018 - Joshua Sanborn, Lafayette College – "The Decolonization of the Russian Empire"

• 19 March 2018 - Aleksei Yurchak, UC Berkeley – "Lenin: Death Mask, Live Sculpture, Eternal Body" 

• 14 May 2018 - Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University – "The Fall of the Pan-Russian Idea in the Wake of the 1917 Revolution"

• 28 May 2018 - Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati – "The ABC’s of Russian Imperialism: When, Where, How, Why?"

• 4 June 2018 - Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania – "Three Visions of Empire at the Twilight of Imperial Russia: How Russian political elites thought about Armenia"

• 11 June 2018 - Vera Zvereva, University of Edinburg – "Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web wars in post-socialist states" 

• 18 June 2018 - Andrew Walder, Stanford University – "Mao and the Mao Era: A Balance Sheet"

• 25 June 2018 - Graeme Robertson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – "State Mobilized Contention: The Construction of Novorossiya"

  Organizers: Alain Blum, Juliette Cadiot, Masha Cerovic, Isabelle Ohayon (CERCEC - EHESS - CNRS)