SPRING GENERAL MEETING AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Sunday May 1, 2016 at 3 pm
Speakers:
Drs. Thomas J. Garza and Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
UT Regents’ and UT Distinguished Teaching Associate Professors, Slavic and Comparative Literature, UT Austin
“From Sputnik to Facebook:
Sixty Years of Relating to Russia”
Sixty years ago this summer, the Soviet Union designed the first artificial satellite, inaugurating decades of a new, complex, high‐tech space race with the United States. This multimedia presentation tracked the challenges and potentials of this crucial cultural and technological relationship from the 1950s to today.
Following the talk and scholarship awards, there was a brief business meeting. Refreshments were served.
Austin History Center
810 Guadalupe St., Austin, TX 78701
