The 2018 Graduate Student Choice Lecture will host Dr. Julie deGraffenried (Baylor University) on Wednesday, February 28 at 10:00AM in Enarson Classroom Building.
Abstract:
For the Soviet leadership in 1941, total war necessitated total mobilization, down to the youngest in the population. Authorities described children’s contribution to the war effort as essential in a stream of messages via children’s media and culture. In this talk, I will use the national children’s radio program Pionerskaia Zor’ka (“Pioneer Dawn”) to discuss the conceptions of national identity disseminated to Soviet children via broadcast media during the war (1941-1945), considering the ways in which age intersects with the physical body and the body politic as well as the ways in which Soviet children’s culture provided a script for its young consumers to use in constructing the narrative of their wartime experiences.
