Literature and Culture Seminars

Lena Lenček, Professor Emerita of Russian and Humanities, Reed College Moderator: Justin Weir, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Between 1911 and...

Semyon Khanin, Poet and Translator; Founding Member, Orbita Poetry and Multimedia Art Project Kevin M. F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and...

Alexander Dolinin, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures It would be hard to find a major Russian writer of the 20th...

Petr Budrin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen Mary University Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures This talk discusses the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in...

Image: " Dining room 1 (Akhmatova Museum) ," Lumaca, CC BY-SA 4.0 , cropped for "landscape wide" setting. Olga Voronina, Professor of Russian, Bard College Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic...

Kevin Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures In December 1989, in...

The Master and Margarita is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship. Released in Russia in January 2024, the film has drawn large audiences and been attacked by pro-Putin Russian nationalist propagandists...

Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with The Master and Margarita Director Michael Lockshin. The Master and Margarita is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship. Released in Russia in January 2024...

Eugene Ostashevsky, Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies Program, New York University Moderator: Stephanie Sandler, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures What history does an...

Stuart Goldberg, Professor of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures How have poets in recent centuries been able to inscribe...