Templeton Lecture: "The Imperial World Through Russian Eyes"

7th Annual Alan Templeton Distinguished Lecture in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Speaker: Edyta M. Bojanowska
Professor and Department Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University

"The Imperial World Through Russian Eyes: Colonialism, Globalization, and a Russian Naval Voyage Around Africa and Asia"

Join us to follow a mid-century Russian naval voyage around the coastal rims of southern Africa and Asia, part of an official government mission to open Japan to European trade. Learn how the 19th-century world, shaped by western colonial empires, looked to Russian observers.

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