Nina Khrushcheva is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of Milano School of International Affairs at The New School. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications. The granddaughter of the former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, she is author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate Publishing, 2014).

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski holds the Chair of Political Science at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. He also is adjunct professor of Political Science at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University (spring 2015). His main areas of research are European integration and democratic governance including citizenship, identity politics, civil society and nationalism in Europe. His recent publications include Religion and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and Citizenship and Identity in the Welfare State (Nomos, 2013).

The discussion will be moderated by Liah Greenfeld, Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology at Boston University. A reception will follow the talk. The public is cordially invited.