News: Principal Investigator (Projektleiterin): Stand-Alone Project “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” Urgent Funding SARS-CoV-2, FWF Austrian Science Fund (since 02/2022)
Project Website: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/Foto (c) Barbara MairConsultation hours: by appointment
Research Interests
Full List of Publications, Conference Presentations, and Invited Talks: https://univie.academia.edu/TatianaProrokovaKonrad
Project
Project Website: https://airproject.univie.ac.at/
Visiting Fellowships
- Visiting Researcher, Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA (15/09/2019-25/09/2019)
- Visiting Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, USA (01/07/2018-31/07/2018)
- Visiting Scholar, Department of English and Center for the Study of War and Memory, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA (01/09/2016-30/11/2016)
University Education
Dissertation Title: “Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature, 1990-.”
- European Joint Master’s Degree in English and American Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany (10/2012-09/2014)
MA Thesis Title: “The Cinema of Intervention: American Exceptionalism and Global War from The Thin Red Line to Zero Dark Thirty.”
- Exchange Semester, University of Graz, Austria, (09/2013-01/2014)
- Teaching Degree (English and German), Ryazan State University, Russia (09/2007-06/2012)
- Translation Degree (English and Russian), Ryazan State University, Russia (10/2009-06/2012)
Positions Held
Title of the Project: “Climate Change, (Anti-)Globalization, and Eco-Culture from the Industrial Revolution to the Present.”
- Academic Assistant in English (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Modern Language Center, University of Marburg, Germany (05/2017-08/2018)
- Lecturer, Department of English / Secondary Education, University of Education Upper Austria, Linz Diocese, Austria (03/2021-06/2021); Department of English and American Studies (04/2015-03/2019) and Modern Language Center (10/2016-08/2018), University of Marburg, Germany; Department of American Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany (04/2017-03/2018); Department of Media Studies, University of Bochum, Germany (04/2016-09/2016)
- Mentor for International Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs, International Office, University of Marburg, Germany (07/2015-12/2015)
Teaching (outside the University of Vienna)
- Tutorials: New Media (SS 2016); New York (in) Fiction (WS 2015/16); Pop! Goes Culture (SS 2015)
- English Language Courses: Academic Communication, C1-C2 (SS 2018); Learning English with Film, Music, and Literature, B2-C1 (SS 2018); English for Administration Trainees, B1(WS 2017/18); Academic Communication, C1-C2 (SS 2017); Speak Out, B2-C1 (SS 2017); Speaking and Writing, B1-B2 (SS 2017); General English, B1-B2, Intensive Course (WS 2016/17); Communicating in English: Speak Out, B2-C1 (WS 2016/17)
- English Language Workshops: Grammar Workshop “Tense III – Future Tense,” B1-B2 (SS 2018); Grammar Workshop “Tense II – Past Tense,” B1-B2 (WS 2017/18); Grammar Workshop “Tense I – Present Tense,” B1-B2 (SS 2017)
Editorial Experience
Series: "Environment, Health, and Well-being"
Channels: Arts and Culture, Humanities and Social Sciences
External Reviewer
Project Funding, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
“Madness and Imagination in Washington Irving’s ‘The Adventure of the German Student.’”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Weather, Smoke, and Climate Change in British Industrial Fiction.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“U.S.-American Intervention in Europe: Morality, Justice, and Freedom in World War II Cinema.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Viral Environments and Air in Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“‘You’re black, you’re poor, you’re ugly, you’re a woman. You’re nothin’ at all!’: (In)Visibility in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Animal Ethics, Vegetarianism, and Co-Existence in the TV Series Grimm.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Narratives of Waste: Culture, Behavior, and Sustainability
Savannah Schaufler (Speaker) & Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Legacy of American Slavery: Contesting Blackness and Re-envisioning Nationhood in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“‘Every war is the same’: Sadism, Trauma, and Ruination in All Quiet on the Western Front (2022).”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Re-Constructing Monstrosity: Frankenstein in the TV Show Supernatural.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Materiality, Visibility, and Perception: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air
Savannah Schaufler (Speaker), Chantelle Mitchell (Speaker) & Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Unnatural Bodies: Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Aerial Environments in Film: The Virus, Pollution, and Breathing.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in GoldenEye (1995).”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Health, Food, and Structural Racism.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Planet’s Health: Airborne Zoonosis and Environment in Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Literature of Intervention: U.S. Participation in the Second World War.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The End of the World: Images from the Bible in Climate Change Fiction.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Food, Black Authenticity, and Structural Racism from the Times of Slavery to the Present.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Weathering the Smoke: British Industrial Fiction as Climate Change Fiction.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Sound of Environmental Crisis: Silence as/and (Eco)Horror in A Quiet Place.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Pro-Animal Ideology and the Philosophy of Co-Existence: An Ecocritical Perspective on Grimm.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Debunking Rape Myths: Sexual Violence, Feminism, and #MeToo in Unbelievable.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The ‘Slow Violence’ of Climate Change Denialism in Don’t Look Up.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Perpetrators, Victims, and ‘Implicated Subjects’ in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Religion, Climate Crisis, and the Ambiguity of Biblical Allusions in Cli-Fi.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Fat Body and Colonial Symbolism: Imperialism, Appetite, and Hunger in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“LGBTQ Graphic Novels for/about Teenagers: Adolescent Homosexuality in Honor Girl & Adrian and the Tree of Secrets.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Violence in the Age of Environmental Crisis: Climate Change Denialism, the War on Science, Eco-Anxiety, and Don’t Look Up.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Global South, Ruined Environments, and ‘Slow Violence’ in James Bond Films.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Segregation, Environmental Racism, and Polarization in the USA in the Era of Climate Change.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“(Porno)Graphic Lesbian Love in Blue Is the Warmest Color and La vie d’Adѐle.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Body at War: Reimagining the Irish Troubles through the Post-9/11 Aesthetics of Torture in Steve McQueen’s Hunger.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Veganism, Ecoethics, and Climate Change in Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAddam’ Trilogy.’”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Graphic Storytelling: Visualizing Health, Progress, and Race.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Petroculture, Plastic, and Environmental Crisis.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Climate Crisis and the Environmental Humanities.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Romance as a Panacea and a New Generation of Intellectual Zombies in Warm Bodies and iZombie.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Mental Dualism, Sin, and Alcoholism in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ (1843).”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Of ‘Pagan Devil-Children’ and Monstrous Plants: Vegetal World, Human Enslavement, and Precarious Existence in ‘Children of the Corn.’”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Female Power, Identity, and the Postcolonial African Novel.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Dread of Aging: A Feminist Reading of The Countess.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Toward Gender Equality in Postcolonial Africa: Women, Freedom, and Tomboyism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Human Duality, Moral Transformation, and the Vietnam War in Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Women’s Rights, Abortion, and Reproductive Politics in the Twenty-First-Century Horror Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“The Legacy of American Slavery: Perpetrators and ‘Implicated Subjects’ in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Of Sexism and Ableism: Wonder Woman’s (Ab)Use of (Dis)Ability.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Intergenerational Struggle and Racial Progress in The Help and The Butler.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Black Men in White Sports: Film and Racial Politics in 1930s-40s’ America.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Shaming the West: The Other Side of the Rwandan Genocide in Film.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Unmasking the Bite: Pleasure, Sexuality, and Vulnerability in the Vampire Series.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Toxicity, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change in Pionér and Okkupert.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“‘Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation’: Paul Schrader’s Eco-Theology in First Reformed.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Environmental Ethics, Mobility, and Carbonization as a Choice.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Recovering from Addiction in Sobriety: Narrating Disability/Mental Illness through the Medium of Comic Art.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Laughing at the Body: The Imitation of Masculinity in Peplum Parody Films.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Cinematic Reimagining of the Cold War in the 2010s.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Child Soldiers in Transatlantic Graphic Narratives of War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Ecohorror of The Strain: Plant Vampires and Climate Change as a Holocaust.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Colonization, Resource Extraction, and War in Blood Diamond.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Mobility, Car Culture, and the Environment in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Climate Change, the Environment, and the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘Enslavement of the Masses’: Literary Imaginings of Antebellum American South and English Industrial North, 1852-1861.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“‘Where’s the Mother?’: Pregnancy, Birth, and Transgender Parenthood.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Alcoholic, Mad, Disabled: Constructing Lesbian Identity in Ann Bannon’s ‘Beebo Brinker Chronicles.’”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in 99 Days.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Pre-Apocalyptic Horror of Climate Change: Colonization and Oil Drilling in The Last Winter.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘Facing the Sunshine’: The Role of Nature in A Room with a View.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Ecohorror, Terrorism, and Inadequate Representation of Global Warming in The Happening.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Beauty and the Beast.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
“Docu-Fictions of War: Documenting History Through Fiction.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“History and/in Fiction: U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan as a Humanitarian Project in Jesse Goolsby’s I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Of Immigration, Cosmopolitanism, and Diversity: Lost Identity and Challenge of Integration for Women in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Racism, Nazism, Sexism: Entering the University Campus of Higher Learning.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘We Were Bred to Protect’: The Iraq War in Matt Gallagher’s Kaboom.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“From Fiction to (Semi-)History: U.S. Contemporary Interventions in Film and Literature.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Reconsidering the Status of Fictional Films and Literature on War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Wild Wild … East: American Cowboys and Afghan Terrorists in Aaron Gwyn’s Wynne’s War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Film and the History of U.S. Intervention in the Balkan War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Detecting U.S. Humanitarian Intervention in David O. Russell’s Three Kings.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Power, Government, and the Choice to Intervene: Reading Gabe Hudson’s Dear Mr. President.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Sugar and Slavery in Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Holocaust in Film: Witnessing the Extermination through the Eyes of Children.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘I Don’t Belong Here Anymore’: Homeland as an Uncomfortable Space for War Veterans in Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“The Afghanistan Wars in Film: from Communism to Terrorism. The Changing Menace towards the United States.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“WWII in the Pacific: Cinematic Aesthetics and Ethics of American War.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Women, Power, and Insanity in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Reporting, Reflecting, Participating: Media Intervention in the Balkan War on Film.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘It’s a War Zone Now, Here’: Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Female Oppression, Patriarchy, and America in the 1950s.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“‘We’ll Write DEMOCRACY with Bullets, Man!’: Mission and Heroism in Tom Paine’s The Pearl of Kuwait.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“American Exceptionalism and the Policy of Interventionism: From the Early European Settlements to the Twenty-First Century.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Gender Ambiguity in Vietnam War Films.”
Tatiana Konrad (Speaker)
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“Technology and the War in the Twenty-First Century: Humans or Machines?”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“US-American Intervention in Europe: Morality, Justice, and Freedom in WWII Cinema.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Deconstructing the Policy of U.S. Interventionism.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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“Documenting Vietnam: Verisimilitude, Political Propaganda, and Manipulation in Peter Davis’s Hearts and Minds.”
Tatiana Prorokova (Speaker)
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