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Beth Holmgren

Beth Holmgren CV

Professor Emerita of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
beth.holmgren@duke.edu
Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
316 Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Selected Presentations & Appearances

“’Warsaw’s Most Beloved Jew’: The Prewar and Postwar Celebrity of Lopek Krukowski, 1901-1984.” - Jewish Studies lecture series · September 24, 2020 Invited Talk University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
tgifFranklin Humanities Institute. “Tom and Zula: Jews and Gentiles at Play on the Interwar Polish Stage.” - tgif · February 28, 2020 Invited Talk Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke, Durham, NC
“Asserting Jewish Presence in Poland: Bernard Singer’s Memoir, My Nalewki.” - ASEEES National Convention, November 24, 2019 · November 24, 2019 Other Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, San Francisco, CA
Conspiracy Begins at Home: Polish and Jewish Girls’ Schooling in Late 19th-century Warsaw. - Slavic and Eurasian Studies Division · April 27, 2019 - April 27, 2019 International Meeting or Conference Western Social Sciences Association Convention, San Diego, CA
Poland Today: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated - Tepper Lecture Series · February 21, 2019 Keynote/Named Lecture The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
The Lopek Dancing: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1919-1939 - Book launch of Volume 31, POLIN series in Polish-Jewish Studies · January 29, 2019 Invited Talk The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, London, U.K.
Casting and Marketing Jewish Stars: Al Jolson in THE JAZZ SINGER (1927) and Molly Picon in YIDL MITN FIDL (1936) · December 2018 International Meeting or Conference ASEEES Convention, Boston, MA
The Country of Warsaw: Rethinking Urban History in Eastern Europe - Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies · January 30, 2018 - January 30, 2018 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The Jews in the Show: Performing Poland for the Allies, 1942-1945 - Oswald P. Backus/Anna Cienciala Memorial Lecture · January 29, 2018 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Comrades versus Flappers: How the Bolshevik Revolution Rolled Over Women's Lives, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness - Revolutionary World, 1917 and Beyond · December 4, 2017 Invited Talk West Virginia University, Slavic Studies, Morgantown, WV
Motion Picture Portraits of the Savior: Malgorzata Szumowska's W IMIE... and BODY/CIALO · November 2017 International Meeting or Conference ASEEES Convention, Chicago, Illinois
Tending Andersland: The Vocation of Feliks Konarski and Nina Olenska, 1942-1990 - Poles and the Polish Diaspora in North America · September 21, 2017 - September 22, 2017 Invited Talk Emigration Museum, Gdynia, Poland, Gdynia, Poland
Theater as Necessity in the Warsaw Ghetto: Actors and Audience in Jerzy Jurandot's FEMINA, 1940-1942 - Entertaining in Extremis: Popular Music and Performance in the European Camps and Ghettoes during World War II · March 27, 2017 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke Humanities Futures, Durham, NC
Sidling into Performance Studies in Russia and Poland - Advanced Seminar with Senior Scholars · February 4, 2017 Invited Talk AATSEEL Convention, San Francisco, CA
Rebeka Does the Tango: The Jewishness of Interwar Polish Popular Culture - Carolina Seminar · November 10, 2016 Invited Talk UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
From Vamps to Volunteers: Female Entertainers in the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, 1942-1946 · November 2016 International Meeting or Conference ASEEES Convention, Washington, D.C.
Rethinking Gender Roles at War: The Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, 1941-1945 - International Gender Studies Conference · June 24, 2016 - June 25, 2016 Invited Talk Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, Krakow, Poland
"The Polish II Corps in Mandate Palestine: Illusion and Escape, 1943-1944 - International Polish Jewish Studies Conference · April 11, 2016 Invited Talk University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Women, Class, Performance: Helena Modjeska as Understudy and Impresario - Public lecture · February 18, 2016 Invited Talk University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Part of UMichigan's annual Weiser Center public lectures
"Revolutionary Fun: The Polish-Language Literary Cabaret in Interwar Poland" · November 2015 Lecture Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Convention in Philadelphia, PA
Banding Together Against the Cavalry: 'Polishness' and the Soldiers' Song in World War II - International Polish Jewish Studies Conference · April 2015 Invited Talk Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Uses of Starlight: Female Entertainers in the Anders Army, 1942-1946 - AWSS Biennial Conference · March 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture Association for Women in Slavic Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Keynote lecture for the conference.
The Showman Presents the Ghetto: Jerzy Jurandot's City of the Doomed - Loyola College Jan Karski Conference · September 19, 2014 Invited Talk Loyola College, Chicago, IL
From the Legs Up: The Rise and Fall of the Chorus Girl in Interwar Warsaw - Stefan and Lucy Hejna Annual Lecture · April 7, 2014 Invited Talk University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Improvising Poland on the March: Entertaining the Polish and Allied Forces in World War II - University of Chicago Central European Workshop · February 25, 2014 Invited Talk University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Face Time Networking · November 22, 2013 Lecture ASEEES Convention, Boston, MA
Subversive Primers: Adult Art in Polish Children's Books · November 21, 2013 Lecture ASEEES Convention, Boston, MA
Ziminska and Her Boys: Backstage Warsaw · March 22, 2013 Lecture Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Greensboro, NC
Reframing the Story: Hooks and Haunts · February 8, 2013 Lecture Princeton University
Shows of Solidarity: Cabaret in Interwar Warsaw · January 31, 2013 Lecture Indiana University, Bloomington
The Strange, But True, Adventures of Kazimierz Krukowski · November 17, 2012 Lecture ASEEES Convention, New Orleans
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · April 22, 2012 Lecture Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · April 21, 2012 Lecture Kate Wheeler Library, Irvine, California sponsored by Helena Modjeska Foundation
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · March 8, 2012 Lecture University of Toronto, Ontario, CA
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · March 7, 2012 Lecture University of Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Scapegrace Relics: Saving the Stars of Warsaw Cabaret · March 1, 2012 Lecture Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · February 28, 2012 Lecture Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · February 25, 2012 Lecture McIntyre's Bookstore, Fearrington, NC
Modjeska and Polonia: readings from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · February 2, 2012 Lecture Kosciuszko Foundation, NY, NY
Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA · January 19, 2012 Lecture The Regulator Bookstore, Durham, NC
Cabaret Makes the City: Warsaw in the 1920s · December 3, 2011 Lecture Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Alien Takes: How Hollywood Screened the Russian War · December 3, 2011 Lecture Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Framing Polish Jews: What Happens When Film Displaces Reality · December 1, 2011 Lecture Washington and Lee University
Questions of Collaboration: Americans and Russian Feminism · November 2, 2010 Lecture UNC-Greensboro
The Art of Playing Patriot: The Polish Stardom of Helena Modjeska · September 16, 2010 Lecture 3rd International Polish Studies Conference in North America, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Backstory of Modern Russian Feminism · July 28, 2010 Lecture International Conference of Central and East European and Eurasian Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward · April 17, 2010 Lecture Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
Book Talk discussant for Roman Koropeckyj's ADAM MICKIEWICZ: A LIFE OF A ROMANTIC · December 1, 2009 Lecture UCLA's Center for European and Eurasian Studies
On Tour with Madame Modjeska: Polish Actress, American Star · December 1, 2009 Lecture Polish-American Club of the Triangle, Raleigh, NC
A Very Short Course on Russian Women's History · December 1, 2009 Lecture West Virginia University
Modern Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward · December 1, 2009 Lecture Keynote lecture at Midwest Slavic Conference, Ohio State University
Presenting Madame Modjeska · December 1, 2009 Lecture Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, co-sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute
Cataclysm, Nation, Self: An Endoscopy of Polish Lives · November 12, 2009 Lecture Presidential Plenary Session, AAASS Convention, Boston, MA
Helena Modjeska and the California Dream · November 1, 2008 Lecture Arden, National Historical Landmark, Orange Cty. CA
The Lady and the Star: How Modjeska Conquered America · October 31, 2008 Lecture Old Orange County Courthouse, Santa Ana, California
Reinvigorating the Paradigm: Russia and the West · March 28, 2008 Lecture Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Atlanta, GA
From Immigrant to Settler: Helena Modjeska and the California Dream · February 22, 2008 Lecture University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
. “’Warsaw’s Most Beloved Jew’: The Prewar and Postwar Celebrity of Lopek Krukowski, 1901-1984.” - Jewish Studies Lectures · April 24, 22 Invited Talk University of Pittsburgh,

Service to the Profession

Organizer and chair of roundtable - Ad-Hoc Committee on Non-Academic Professions in the Field · November 2015 Event/Organization Administration Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Washington, DC
Tenure review -- Kansas University · September 30, 2013 Consulting
Manuscript review, Northwestern University Press · June 2013 Consulting
UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures External Review · February 1, 2013 Consulting
ACLS East European Studies, Dissertation Fellowships Evaluator · February 2013 Editorial Activities
Full professor review, Duke University, Romance Studies · November 30, 2012 Consulting
Full professor review, Indiana University · November 1, 2012 Consulting
Tenure review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · November 1, 2012 Consulting University of Illinois at Urbana
Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW · November 1, 2012 Editorial Activities
Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW · December 3, 2011 Editorial Activities
Tenure review (dean's level) for Princeton University · December 3, 2011 Editorial Activities
Manuscript review for POLISH INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF AMERICA · December 3, 2011 Editorial Activities
Tenure review for East Carolina University · December 3, 2011 Consulting
Extraordinary review for full professor UCLA · December 3, 2011 Consulting
Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW · December 6, 2010 Editorial Activities
Tenure review for University of Virginia · October 31, 2010 Consulting
Review of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University · April 2010 - May 30, 2010 Consulting
Review of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University · March 5, 2010 - March 31, 2010 Consulting
Manuscript reviewed · December 1, 2009 Editorial Activities
Associate to full professor review, University of Maryland - College Park · November 1, 2009 Consulting
Associate to full professor review, Indiana University-Bloomington · November 1, 2009 Consulting
Review of Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute · November 1, 2009 Consulting
Meet the Editors: Advice to New and Seasoned Authors about Trends in Book Publishing : 2008 AAASS Convention · November 23, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Philadelphia, PA
Is There a Feminist Press in Central/Eastern Europe? Women's Voices in the Contemporary Media : 2008 AAASS Convention · November 22, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Philadelphia, PA
Beyond Academia: Career Paths of Professional MAs : 2008 AAASS Convention · November 22, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Philadelphia, PA
Revisiting the Gender Question: Scholarship, Exchange, Experience : 2008 AAASS Convention · November 20, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Philadelphia, PA
Manuscript review · May 1, 2008 - May 21, 2008 Editorial Activities