Fall 2025 Wednesday Seminar Series

The Seminar Series, now over 40 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture, which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session.

The Fall 2025 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Natalya Naumenko and Dr. Jonathan Schulz, and coordinated by Lisa Hill-Corley and Kashiff A. Thompson. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information, email the Center: kthomp7@gmu.edu

Seminars will be held from  12 - 1:15pm in Carow Hall,  which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. A light lunch for seminar participants will be available at 11:30 am. 

If you would like to be included on our mailing list for Seminar announcements please email the Center at: kthomp7@gmu.edu

9/10

Natalya Naumenko, George Mason University

Presentation: American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921–1922

9/17 To be announced 
9/24

Omer Ozak, Southern Methodist University

10/1

Carl Kitchens, Florida State University

10/8

To be announced 

10/15

Pablo Balan, Tel Aviv University

10/22

John Horton, MIT

10/29

Felipe Valencia-Caicedo, Brown University

11/5

To be announced 

11/12

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

11/19

Yang Xi, UC Riverside

11/26

Thanksgiving Break -  NO Seminar

12/3

Leander Heldring, Northwestern University