Dr. Mikhail Tsypkin, associate professor emeritus in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Post-graduate School, will visit OU on March 31- April 1 to speak about the career of his father, noted novelist Leonid Tsypkin, and also about Jewish life in the Soviet Union. While on campus, Dr. Tsypkin will give a Just Book Luncheon presentation for the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies (on April 1 at noon), will visit classes, and will also deliver a public lecture for the Romanoff Center on his father's biography as a means of exploring the Soviet experience at 4:30 p.m. on April 1 in the Community Room on the 9th floor of Dale Hall Tower. The Just Book Luncheon requires registration (by March 13). Register for the luncheon here. The talk is open to the public and does not require registration.
On Wednesday, April 8, 4:30-6:o0 p.m. in the Zarrow Hall Community Room, Dr,. Christian Ostermann, Director of the Cold War Project-- formerly at the Woodrow Wilson Center and now at the University of Maryland-- and Dr. Thomas Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at Vanderbilt University, will give talks on Spies and Intelligence in the Soviet Block during the Cold War. OU's Dr. Hannah Chapman will moderate the session. Light refreshments will be served.
An exhibit of materials from OU's Romanoff Archival Collection titled "Russia's Romanovs in War, Revolution, and Exile, 1916-2016: Stories from a Family Archive" is open in Bizzell Library in the first-floor exhibition space. This exhibit will give the public a glimpse of some of the important archival materials that OU acquired along with the initial Romanoff Family bequest as well as additional materials acquired in subsequent years. The Romanoff collection includes hundreds of family photos as well as diaries and correspondence from both the Revolutionary period and later decades. The exhibit was prepared by Dr. Melissa Stockdale, Brian and Sandra O'Brien Professor of history at OU, and James Burnes, Exhibitions Coordinator for the OU libraries. The exhibit will run through the spring 2026 semester. It is open to the public during regular library hours.
