IDCPPA Research Seminar - 31 October - Irina Filatova - Russia, the War in Ukraine, and South Africa in the Transforming World

Speaker

Prof Irina Filatova

Professor Emeritus – University of KwaZulu-Natal

Honorary Research Associate – University of Cape Town

Abstract

Prof Filatova presents a chapter of the forthcoming book “Russia and South Africa in the Transforming Global Order” which will cover relations between the two countries during several “global orders” which dominated the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. It explains the global significance of this war, and the role of South Africa in it.

Bio

Irina Filatova is Professor Emeritus at UKZN and Honoray Research Associate at UCT. She received her degrees at Lomonosov Moscow State University and worked there from 1973 to 1992, finishing her tenure as Professor and Head of the African Studies Department. In 1992–2002 she was Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Durban-Westville, and in 2004–2022 taught history at Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics. She has published six books, several edited volumes and multiple articles on African history, the history of ties between Russia and South Africa, the history of communist movement in South Africa, problems of race and ethnicity, and Soviet and Russian writing on African history.