BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Toward a History of Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union dur ing the 1970s and 1980s: \n\nThe Case of Ex-Soviet Migrants in Europe Who W ere Left Behind by\n\nDr. Denis Kozlov\n\n \n\nThe talk examines a signific ant moment in the history of Jewish migrations from the Soviet Union to the West during the 1970s and 1980s. At the center of the story is a humanitar ian crisis that involved several thousand ex-Soviet Jewish migrants in Euro pe. Having failed to adjust to the conditions of immigration they had initi ally encountered\, they relocated in an attempt to gain visa admission to W estern countries of their choice. However\, these attempts were refused by a number of agencies. The story illuminates important aspects of transnatio nal migrations during the Cold War while also shedding light on the politic al culture of the migrants themselves.\n\n \n\nDr. Kozlov is a historian of modern Russia at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. His current research focuses on the cultural\, intellectual\, and social history of the Soviet Union\, especially the post-Stalin 1950s and 1960s – decades known as the T haw. DTEND:20230418T220000Z DTSTAMP:20241123T201942Z DTSTART:20230418T204500Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, 124 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Contemporary History Institute Spring Speaker Series\, April 18 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42925149753283 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/contemporary_history_institute_spring_s peaker_series_1823 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR