[Anthropgrad] Research School of Humanities - Work-in-Progress Seminar - Sheila Fitzpatrick

[Sharon Komidar]

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Apologies for cross posting. Many Thanks, Sharon.

 

The Research School of Humanities presents,
A WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR

1- 2.30 pm, Friday 4th July 2008, Theatrette, Old Canberra House

Becoming a Transnational Biographer: the Writing of Mischka's War.

 

Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, Department of
History, University of Chicago.

 

Mischka was the Hungarian/Jewish/Latvian theoretical physicist, Michael
Danos, who was born in Riga in 1922 and spent the years 1944-51 in
Germany as a student and DP (displaced person) before leaving for the
United States. He was also my husband, making this a different kind of
biography than I would normally write as a professional historian. My
talk will primarily address two methodological problems: 1) how to
negotiate the question of personal involvement when writing history
(biography), and 2) the category of "displaced person" and its utility
in studies of social and cultural identity. 

 

Sheila Fitzpatrick is primarily a historian of modern Russia. Her recent
work has focused on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin
period, particularly everyday practices and social identity. She is
currently working on projects on Soviet society under Khrushchev,
displaced persons in Germany after the Second World War, and the
Australian Left. In 2002, she received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished
Achievement Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is a past
President of the American Association for Slavic and East European
Studies.


 

Convenors: Ken Taylor and Stephen Foster
For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/
All Welcome