By Dafna Rachok, PhD student in Anthropology It is not a secret that concepts travel through time and places and often get vernacularized and reshaped. To find out how the idea of inclusion is understood and employed in contemporary Russia, on April 16th, a panel of experts gathered to tackle the question of diversity and… Read more »
Tag: Art and Architecture
Reflections on Edyta Bojanovska’s lecture, “The Colonial World Through Russian Eyes”
Written by Ani Abrahamyan, PhD student in Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures Each semester the graduate students of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures get the opportunity to invite a scholar for a guest lecture. As each student has a distinct academic research interest, the process of choosing the… Read more »
Review of lecture by Oksana Zaporozhets, “The New Wave of Urbanization in Russia”
Written by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, PhD student in Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures О чём расскажет город? (Краткий обзор лекции О. Н. Запорожец «Новая волна урбанизации в России: высотное строительство, цифровые технологии и изменяющаяся социальность больших городов», семинар «О России по-русски», 29 октября 2018). Города строятся, развиваются, модернизируются, стареют, исчезают с географических карт, возникаю… Read more »
Report from Moscow: On the intersection of theatre, culture, and…soccer
Written by Greer Garni, Graduate Student in Theatre Hello from Moscow where the FIFA world cup is in full swing and the city is decked out to welcome sports fans from all over the world. No surface has been left untouched by the games; TVs have even been installed in metro cars to broadcast the… Read more »