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Political Protest and Culture in Today’s Russia

Barnard College 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, New York City

Join for a lecture by journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist Anna Narinskaya. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Please click here to register. Anna Narinskaya is a journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the jury for…

From Gruyère to Gatchina: The Meanings of Cheese in Modern Russia

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Although Russia has an extensive tradition of dairy products including fresh cheese, ripened and aged cheeses were introduced from abroad at least by the seventeenth century, and they immediately took on all sorts of new meanings. Cheese was a commodity, an object of international trade. Cheese was the product of technology that Russians came to hope to master. And cheese…