“Lev Yashin: Soviet Football Icon on a World Stage," a paper to
be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), to be held in Boston,
November 2009, as part of a panel “Of Cosmonauts, Athletes, and
Rock Stars: Official Celebrity and Popular Celebrity in the USSR
after Stalin."
“Scarcity, civil war, and the establishment of a new food regime in
the Soviet Union, 1918-24,” a paper to be presented at the Eleventh
Symposium of the International Commission for Research into
European Food History, “Food and War in Europe in the nineteen and
twentieth centuries,” to be held in Paris, 8-11 September
2009.
“Lev Yashin and the International Emergence of Soviet Soccer,
1958-1966,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the AAASS, New
Orleans, November 15-18, 2007
“Dispelling Myths about Hunger: The Globalization and Politics of
Hunger," a presentation to students as part of program, "Global
Challenges to Feeding the World: Everyday Action for Combating
Hunger," sponsored by the Vincentian Center for Church and Society,
Rosalie Rendu Roundtable on Religion and Science, St. John's
University, October 16, 2006
“Darker Shades of Red: Art and Freedom of Expression in a
Totalitarian State," part of program, "Through Colored Lenses:
Truth and the State," organized by the Vincentian Center for Church
and Society in conjunction with University Art Gallery exhibit of
Soviet propaganda posters, St. John's University, October 4,
2006
“Soccer and Civics: The Social History of a Global Game,” an
invited lecture delivered at the Institute for Historical
Research, University of London, April 19, 2004 as part of the
Pearson-Prentice Hall Seminars in Global History.
“The Myths of Hunger throughout History,” a presentation to
students as part of panel on “The Globalization of Charity: The
Fight against Hunger,” organized to mark World Food Day 2002, St.
John’s University, October 16, 2002.
“Extremist Variants of Russian Nationalism,” session chaired at the
Fifth Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of
Nationalities (ASN), New York, April 13-15, 2000
“Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Pre-War Soviet Russia,
1917-1941,” a paper
presented at the conference on “Food and Drink in Consumer
Societies,” organized by
the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society,
Hagley Museum and
Library, Wilmington, Delaware, November 12-13, 1999.
"Entitlements, Moral Economy, and Urban Food Shortages in
Revolutionary Russia," a
paper presented at the annual convention of the AAASS, St. Louis,
November 1999.
“Ethnicity, Economy and the State in Tatarstan,” session moderator
at the Fourth Annual World Convention of the Association for the
Study of Nationalities (ASN), New York, April 1999
"Babylon in Moscow: Campaigns against the Sukharevka Market,
1918-30," paper presented at the 28th National Convention of the
AAASS, Boston, November 1996
"Moscow's Food Brigades in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921," paper
presented at the Midwest Russian History Colloquium, Akron, Ohio,
September 1995