Moderated by the USC College’s Robert English (International Relations) and Sarah Pratt (Slavic Languages and Literatures), this event offers a unique intra-USC colloquium that brings together faculty and graduate students from three different College departments. They will discuss texts and types of discourse that elucidate ambiguities of power and subordination involving the Ottoman, Habsburg, Holy Roman, French and Russian empires.

How do these struggles continue to shape our world?

Speakers will include Azade-Ayse Rorlich (associate professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures), Mehmet Sinan Birdal (International Relations graduate student), Antonia Szabari (assistant professor of French and Italian and Comparative Literature) and Yuliya Ilchuk (Slavic Languages and Literatures graduate student).