Free public talk is Edward N. Peterson Lecture Series event RIVER FALLS — Thomas Wolfe, an associate professor in the University of Minneso – ta’s History Department, will present a …
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Free public talk is Edward N. Peterson Lecture Series event
RIVER FALLS — Thomas Wolfe, an associate professor in the University of Minneso – ta’s History Department, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls on the timely topic of the “Crisis in Ukraine: War and Russia’s Deformed Transition.”
The lecture, part of the Edward N. Peterson Lecture Series, is free and open to the public at 4:30 p.m. in Room 320 of the University Center. A reception begins at 4 p.m., and a Q& A session will fol –
low the talk.
Wolfe, who is avliated faculty with the U of M’s Department of Anthropolo gy, the Institute for Global Studies, and the School of Journalism and Mass Com – munications, said one of the themes of his presentation will be Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign state status.
“Ukraine’s history has indeed been marked by the divculty of achieving this (independent) status, but
there is nothing in Ukraine’s history that meant it is an ar tificial or 'fake' state," Wolfe said in a summation of his presentation.
Wolfe’s presentation will also examine how Russia “became Putin’s regime,” re – ferring to the transformation of Russia into full-fledged authoritarian state, as well as a "reflection about the con- tinuity of Russian political culture.”
The Peterson Lecture Se –
ries honors Edward N. Pe –
terson, a history professor at UW-River Falls from 1954 until his death in 2005. To honor his memory and his achievement in teaching and research, the UWRF History and Philosophy Department established the Peterson Lecture Series as an annual forum for leading scholars to present their scholarship on war and peace, abuses and limits of power, and the struggle for democracy in the 20th century, issues that Peterson taught about and wrote about during his long career as a historian. The se –
ries is funded by an endow –
ment made possible by dona – tions from students, alumni, faculty and other supporters.
More on Wolfe’s presen – tation and the lecture series is available at https://www. uwrf.edu/HIST/Events/Pe – tersonLectureSeries/Index. cfm Submitted by UW-River Falls