Strange Bedfellows: Americans in Russia

Wednesday, January 29, and Monday, February 3, 6:30–8:00 P.M.
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Note: Monday, January 13 session has been cancelled.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”
—William Faulkner

David Rainbow will consider critical moments in U.S.-Russian relations through the experiences of notable travelers: from John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. ambassador to Russia in 1809, to Langston Hughes, icon of the 1930s Harlem Renaissance and communist sympathizer, to Matt Taibbi, a freelance journalist in the 1990s heyday of sex, drugs, and oligarchs. These American travelers to the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation—over a period of two hundred years—will remind us of the challenges and blind spots that have sometimes plagued one of America’s most consequential international relationships.

David Rainbow is a historian in the Honors College at the University of Houston where he teaches and writes about modern Russian and Eurasian history. Professor Rainbow edited and contributed to the recently published book, Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context (McGill-Queens University Press, 2019). He is currently writing a book on the history of Russian and Soviet imperial power in Siberia from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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January 29, 6:30pm – 8pm

$ 35.00

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February 3, 6:30pm – 8pm

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Start:: January 29 @ 6:30 pm
End:: February 19 @ 8:00 pm
Cost:: $35
Events Category:: 2020 Spring
Events Tags:: Evening Course

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Now enrolling for February courses!
New courses are beginning! Register now to reserve your seat.

April in Washington, D.C.—A Study in Contrasts, April 3—5
Please call or email registrar for registration forms.

Strange Bedfellows: Americans in Russia
– David Rainbow
Wednesday, January 29, and Monday, February 3, 6:30—8:00 P.M.
Seats available. Call for location information.

Trouble Here, Trouble There
Four Tuesdays, February 4, 11, 18, and 25, 6:30–8:00 P.M.,
February 4 – “Venezuela: Game of Thrones,” Francisco Monaldi
February 11 – “U.K.: Do or Die Brexit,” Susan Scarrow
February 18 – “Hong Kong: China’s Golden Goose,” Steven Lewis
February 25 – “Turkey: Navigating the Minefield,” A.Kadir Yildirim
Seats available. Call for location information.

Marilynne Robinson’s Trilogy: Redemption, Illumination, Grace
– Terry Doody
Four Tuesdays, February 11, 18, and 25, and March 3, 12:00–1:30 P.M.
February 11 – Housekeeping
February 18 – Gilead
February 25 – Home
March 3 – Lila
Limited enrollment. A few seats available.

If you have not received a brochure, and would like one, please email registrar@houstonseminar.org with your request and mailing address.

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