Abstract

In this talk, Prof. Chatterjee will share highlights from her recent book, Russia in World History. A Transnational Approach that compares British and Russian imperial history. She will speak about the concept of imperial nationalism found in the works of Vasily Klyuchevsky and George Trevelyan. Can a country be a nation and an empire? Chatterjee will also consider the role of the historian in writing the nation and empire.

Speaker

The lecturer: Choi Chatterjee is an emerita Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender Festival Culture & Bolshevik Ideology 1910-1939 (2002), co-author of two textbooks, and co-editor of four volumes of original essays. Her most recent book is Russia in World History. A Transnational Approach was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2022. Chatterjee’s current project explores the global travels of the 19th-century Russian Orthodox and Hesychast text, The Way of a Pilgrim, and how it sparked spiritual and intellectual conversations in Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and India.

The lecture will be delivered via Zoom.

Convenor

This event is co-sponsored by the Diversity Leadership Group (DLG) and Dr Maxim Kupovykh's Nations, Nationalism and Modernity course.