Dr. Crawford escaped the snow for a few days and traveled to sunny Las Vegas to present his paper "Skyping the Cold War: Building a Telebridge between Ohio Northern University and Perm State National Research University in Russia to Discuss Our Mutual History" to the National Social Science Association. The paper dealt with the virtual conversations that Crawford set up with Ekaterina Isayeva of PSNRU starting in 2010. Since that time, ONU and PSNRU students and faculty have discussed their university experiences, the climate and geography of our regions, our holiday celebrations, presidential elections in the two nations, World War II on the Russian Front, and the Cold War. Drs. HJ Wilson, Nsia-Pepra, and Loughlin have also taken part in the talks, as well as several professors from Russia. Isayeva, Crawford and Wilson are now working on a project that would create telebridges between Russian and Ohio high schools.
Las Vegas, as mentioned, was pleasantly warm and snow free, and also was an interesting spectacle to observe for a cultural historian.
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