This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here at the time of the event to join the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for a presentation by Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, as part of…
Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s three-year sojourn in Paris from 1873 to 1876 as pensioners of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts has long been the subject of considerable interest among Russian and Western scholars alike. To date, most investigations into this topic have centered on their formative encounter…
Please join us for a seminar on contemporary political poetry in Russian with leading European, Russian, and US experts. Presentations will be in English and Russian. The seminar is organized by the Harriman Institute in collaboration with the DFG-Centre for Advanced Studies Russian-Language Poetry in Transition project. Russian political poetry is back, and the spectrum of political subjects nowadays is broader than ever, including questions…