Carleton College Herbert P. Lefler Distinguished Lectures

Searchable Chart of past Herbert P. Lefler Lecturers and Guest Speakers, 1979-2009

For more information please contact the Herbert P. Lefler Lecturers Planning Committee: 
Professors Andrew Fisher & George Vrtis or Nikki Lamberty at the History Department office, nlambert@carleton.edu, (507) 222-4217.

2009-10

Herbert P. Lefler Distinguished Lecturer
Winter Term
Hosted by Professor Adeeb Khalid.

Sheila Fitzpatrick will present:  

Stalin and his Team: A New Look at Soviet High Politics
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Leighton Hall, Room 305.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor, D. Phil. Oxford, University of Chicago, Department of History. Specialties: Soviet Social, Political, and Cultural History; Social Identity; Social Mobility; International Left; Australian History. Professor Fitzpatrick is a historian primarily of modern Russia. Her recent work has focused on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly everyday practices and social identity. Currently work includes 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, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is a past President of the American Association for Slavic and East European Studies.

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Herbert P. Lefler Distinguished Lecturer
Fall Term, 2009-10
hosted by Professor Serena Zabin.

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 5:00 p.m., Leighton Hall, Room 304
Professor Marcy Norton, George Washington University, specialist in Atlantic World and Latin American History: Animals as Subjects and Objects: Hunting and Husbandry in Early Modern Europe.