LECTURE: The Mountains Move: Russia, Caucasia, and the West (events.berkeley.edu)

Lecture | February 19 | 2-3 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Speaker: Ronald Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History; Political Science, University of Michigan

Sponsors: Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Institute of (ISEEES), International Studies, Institute of

Last August Russia and Georgia went to war in a part of the world that few in the Unied States were aware of. Yet the obscure conflict in South Ossetia had global consequences. Ron Suny, a long timer historian of the Caucasus, argues that the struggle in the region was part of a larger rivalry for global influence by Russia and the United States. For historians context is all; for undestanding the future of East-West relations, the past has to be understood.

Ronald Suny is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, he taught at Oberlin College (1968-1981), as visiting professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (1987), and Stanford University (1995-1996). He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995), where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. He is the author of numerous books on the Caucasus.