The New Faculty Seminar brown bag lunch series returns! After a hiatus due to COVID, we are excited to bring back this popular lunch time series, now in our new seminar space!

The Humanities Institute invites you to join us as we learn more about the work of new humanities faculty at UB. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served. Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

Katherine Zubovich, Associate Professor in the department of History will present, “Soviet Artists, Global Icons, and the USSR’s Mobilization of Visual Statistics.”

A historian of the former Soviet Union, Zubovich’s first book Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital looks at the history of skyscraper building in the Soviet capital during the Stalin era. The book was shortlisted for the 2021 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize and named one of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2021. It also received an Honourable Mention for the 2021 Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. The Russian translation of Moscow Monumental was published in 2022 by Corpus. Currently, Professor Zubovich is working on a new project about Soviet visual statistics and data visualization during the Stalin era. She is also completing a book titled Making Cities Socialist that will be published as part of the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series.

This event will also be available via Zoom:

https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/99633217238?pwd=WkhQYTVKMEVGUTY1bGtsM29mZDZUZz09