'The Russian Connection' - this Friday at St Antony's, Oxford

[Oliver Ready]

THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION



An afternoon of events to mark the inauguration of the Russkiy Mir
Programme at St Antony’s College, Oxford, on Friday, 24 February.



All welcome.



* *

*2 pm:     **East Meets West: A Russian Great in London*



A roundtable on the occasion of the bicentenary of Alexander Herzen.



Speakers:

Robert Harris (New College, Oxford)

Professor Derek Offord (Bristol University)

Professor Kathleen Parthé (University of Rochester)

Chair:

Professor Andrei Zorin (New College, Oxford)



*



*3.15 pm:   **Between Stalin and Churchill*

* *

Symposium devoted to the diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to the
UK, 1932-43.



Speakers:

Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky (Quondam Fellow, All Souls), editor of
Maisky’s diaries for Yale University Press

Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony’s), their co-translator

His Excellency Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador of the Russian Federation
to the United Kingdom



*



*4.30 pm: **Culture and the Foreign Policy of Russia*



Speakers:

His Excellency Dr Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador of the Russian Federation
to the United Kingdom

Professor Alexey Gromyko, Head of European Programmes, Russkiy Mir
Foundation



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All events to be held in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s



For any further information, please contact: russkiymir at sant.ox.ac.uk

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