Webpages tagged with «Eastern Europe»

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion, a great divergence appeared between the medical opinions of the East and West on the long-term consequences on public health. In this keynote lecture, Kate Brown, Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives us insight on what these conflicting stories can tell us about how Western and Soviet scientists understood humans and the ecologies in which they lived.

This research group consists of scholars dealing with linguistics, literature, and cultural studies: we are interested in migration and real and metaphorical borders, and how these phenomena shape individual and collective identity.