Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50pm Library Auditorium
Oleg Riabov is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (August 2014 – February 2015). His research project, “Gendering the Enemy in Soviet and American Cold War Films (1945-1963)”, deals with the ways of producing otherness with help of gender discourse in international relations. He investigates cinematic representations of Soviet and American masculinities, femininities, families, and gender relations as a part of struggle for hearts and minds in international and domestic politics, which were exploited in creating external and internal enemies, in legitimating power, and in shaping gender orders in the USA and the USSR.