Russian Women Perspectives on Life Subject of Lawrence Main Hall Forum

APPLETON, WIS. -- Russian scholar Richard Yatzeck shares the striking perspectives of ordinary Russian women, gleaned from personal conversations with them, regarding their views on the United States, Americans and every day life in a Lawrence University Main Hall Forum.

Yatzeck, professor of Russian at Lawrence, presents "The Return of the Red Goddess: Women in Russia," Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 4:30 p.m. in Main Hall, Room, 202. The event is free and open to the public.

The address is based on a memoir of conversations Yatzeck engaged in with Russian women while directing an off-campus study program in the Russian city of Kransnodar in 1997. Among the perspectives he will discuss are the women's willingness to leave justice to God, their indifference toward America's concern with "problem solving," their disgust with the American appetite for consumption and "getting ahead" materialistically and their unbridled fascination with Russian literature's moral rather than material concerns.