9:45 am
Welcome Notes

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Panel 1:
Perceptions of the Russian Revolutions in the United States

Russia and the CPUSA: What Went Wrong? (James R. Barrett, University of Illinois)

“Reclaiming Russia”: Catherine Breshkovsky and the First American Red Scare (Chelsea Gibson, Binghamton University)

Kazimir Malevich’s White on White: Provenance and Shifts in Revolutionary Perception (Allison Leigh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

12 pm - 1 pm Lunch Break

1 pm – 2:15 pm Fearing Another Revolution

The Russian Revolution, (Black) Communism/Socialism, and the Formulation of a Black Nation in the Garvey Era (Daniel Hanglberger, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria)

The Youthful Earl Browder, the Russian Revolution’s Seductive Allure, and the American Communist Party (James G. Ryan, Texas A&M University at Galveston)

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, Actors of the Anti-Revolutionary Struggle

To Tell All My People: Race, Representation, and African-American FBI Informants Julia Brown and Lola Belle Holmes (Veronica Wilson)

We the Living: The first novel on Soviet Russia and its aftermath in the Cold War (Vojin Saša Vukadinović, ETH Zurich)

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, U.S. Interpretations and Discourses about the Revolution

From Hope to Demonization: Emma Goldman’s Conversion in Post-Revolutionary Russia (Frank Jacob, City University of New York (QCC))

Paul Frölich, American Exile, and the Discourse about the Russian Revolution (Riccardo Altieri, University of Potsdam)

5:15 pm Final Remarks