The Jordan Center's Colloquium Series serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field. Participants come from universities across the country and abroad and work in disciplines ranging from history, political science and anthropology to literature and film.
In the second session of the Fall 2014 Colloquium Series, Stephen Norris will join us from the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University. Norris will speak on his current research project, "Communism's Cartoonist: Boris Efimov and the Soviet Century," a biography of the Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov (1900-2008). Efimov began publishing pro-Bolshevik cartoons as a teenager before he moved to Moscow and worked as a political caricaturist for the newspaper Izvestiia and the satirical journal Krokodil from 1922 until 1991. He estimated that he published 30,000+ political cartoons over the course of his astonishing career.
