Vladimir Paperny, SEEELC Adjunct Professor, author of the bestseller Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two, translated into several languages, the Russian-language novel Schultz’ Archive, short-listed for the Big Book Award, and other publications, recently published a book based on the work he started with the late Maya Turovskaya—a comparative analysis of Soviet and...
TOMISLAV MATIĆ Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate, Croatian Institute for History Astronomers, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez, a 15th Century Central European Humanist Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Royce 236 This lecture will show that Eastern Central Europe was a participant in broader...
Two Literary Protest Almanachs: Metropol (1979) and VYKHOD (2022) Offering a timely perspective on the literary and political landscape of modern-day Russia, this presentation will discuss two literary protest almanacs, Metropol (1978) and VYKHOD (2022), which feature contemporary non-conformist Russian writers. The Metropol almanac was a collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers including Vladimir Vysotsky, Bella Akhmadulina, and Andrei Voznesensky,...