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Literature and Culture Seminar: Kevin Platt, “The Many Afterlives of the Russian Avant-Garde, or: What was the Modernist Moment and What is Left of It?”

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Dr. Kevin Platt is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Russian and East European Studnes at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Amherst College (1989) and his Ph.D. from Stanford University...

Ilya Kukulin: Networking Pain and Hopes: New Models of Social Communication in Russian Literature

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Различение собеседников: новые модели социальной коммуникации в современной русской литературе (Networking Pain and Hopes: New Models of Social Communication in Russian Literature) Seminar will be conducted in Russian.

Literature and Culture Seminar: Stanislav Shvabrin, UNC Chapel Hill, “Of Sacrilege and Freedom: The Origins of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift”

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“Worship” is one of the first words that come to mind when we contemplate Nabokov’s attitude toward Pushkin, especially in connection with the compositions produced during his “Russian” years. Eastern Europe (for all the obvious reasons, sadly) has a...

Literature and Culture Seminar: Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design, “By Design: Adventures in Ideas"

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Literature and Culture Seminar: Professor Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University, "Eurasian Contact Zones and the Limits of Identity: The Journey of the Russian Columbus from Imperial England to Global Bollywood"

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In 1469, a Russian merchant called Afanasy Nikitin sailed to the Indian subcontinent on a commercial expedition. The account of his travels, A Journey Beyond Three Seas, was written in an amalgam of Arabic, Persian, and Turkic invocations to Allah and the...

Literature and Culture Seminar: Anna Fishzon, “A Space for Pleasure and Desire in the Stagnation Era, or, Why You Should Care about Late-Soviet Animation”

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GSAS Lecture and Literature and Culture Seminar: Edyta Bojanowska, "Pineapples in Petersburg, Cabbage Soup on the Equator: Imperialism, Globalization, and Ivan Goncharov's Travels in Asia."

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Edyta Bojanowska, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature and Director of the Russian and East European Program at Rutgers University, received her Ph.D. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in...

Literature and Culture Seminar - poetry reading by Polina Barskova and Irina Mashinski, in Russian

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LITERATURE AND CULTURE SEMINAR - Caleb Crain, author of Necessary Errors

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Caleb Crain will give a reading from his novel Necessary Errors, set in Prague a year after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Necessary Errors charts the experiences abroad of Harvard graduate Jacob Putnam as he explores the new worlds of East Central Europe...

LITERATURE AND CULTURE SEMINAR - Reporting Russia: In Conversation with Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe

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Join the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for a lively conversation with journalists Miriam Elder and Julia Ioffe. Both former Moscow correspondents...