60th The Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Our Program Director, Dr Betsy Jones Hemenway, with three former graduate students, Oleh Petrus, Fatima Rasoul, and Sarah Jeffries. The two on the left, Dr. Hemenway and Oleh, presented at 60th The Southern Conference on Slavic Studies that took place at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Southern Conference on Slavic Studies is the oldest and largest affiliate of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (formerly American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies). The purpose of SCSS is clear: to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, East European, and Eurasian studies in the southern region of the United States. Dr Betsy Jons Hemenway presented her work on Lenin Batiushka: From Revolutionary to Imperialist Father. Oleh Petrus presented on From Underrated to Unbreakable: Zelenskyy's (re)Rise and the Redefinition of Masculinity in Wartime Ukraine.