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The Strangeness of Being Briefly Relevant
My contribution to a forum in Law, Culture and the Humanities on public intellectuals during and after Trump.
"Blogs & Digital Media in Contemporary Scholarship" at ICCEES
I blather on a bit about digital scholarship
Russian Memes Lecture for University of Pittsburgh’s STARTALK program
Russian Internet memes go to high school
“Bank Imperial”: The Great Man Theory of History and Finance
Why isn’t Count Suvorov eating anything?
Father Time
My contribution to a Russian History Blog conversation about Marko Dumancic’s excellent new book
Snickers: The Milk Chocolate Invader from Mars© (Postponed to 6/11)
Is Snickers really so satisfying? The wonderful world of post-Soviet food advertising.
Late Soviet Commercials and the Art of Bad Taste
The hilarious 1980s commercials of Harry Egipt. Friday 5/28 at 12 PM EST
Mosse Lecture at Humboldt University: “Informing Ourselves to Death: Conspiracy and Fantasy in Postmodern Russia”
Thursday April 27 at 1:15 EST
Plots against Russia: The Uses of Conspiracy after the Soviet Collapse
I’m much happier to be giving this lecture at Stanford than it looks.
“Imagining Russian Hackers” Interview
Marijeta Bozovic and Ben Peters and I talk about Russian hackers and trolls and bots (oh my!)
“Soviet Commercials: Keeping up with the Dzhonses”
A look at the early years of Soviet television commercials.
Book Panel on Scott Radnitz’s “Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region” at the ASN
Come here about a new book on conspiracy theory!
"Public Works: Academics in the Arena in the Trump Era and Beyond"
I’m not a public intellectual, but I play one on Zoom
“Comics and the Cold War” talk at UNC
After WWII, the fight against communism created new enemies for comics’ heroes to fight (super and otherwise). By the 1970s, younger creators at Marvel were challenging the Cold War consensus.