Russian Studies Workshop

Midwest Slavic Conference

The following panel was organized by RSW academic co-director Tatiana Saburova.

“Butter, Trees, and Timber: Contested Spaces of the Global Economy and Colonization,”  

Panel Chair: Dr. Maria Fedorova (Macalester College)

Participants:

"Peasants into Global Capitalists: Siberian Dairy Cooperatives" by Dr. David Darrow (U. Dayton)

"'The Last of the Mohicans': Semirechie in the Micro- and Macro-Optic of Botany in Writings and Photographs of Vasilii Sapozhnikov" by Dr. Tatiana Saburova (Indiana U. Bloomington)

"Environmental Moral Panic as a Strategy of Inaction. The case study of the 'Chinese Logged Everything'” narrative in Russia’s Deforestation Discourse" by Liudmila Listrovaya (U. Oregon)