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Exoticism Abroad: Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s Visual Experimentations with Ethnic and Racial Difference in Paris (with Maria Taroutina and Discussant Nathaniel Knight)

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…

Film Screening. The Lost Petition

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the little-known Ukrainian film classic The Lost Petition (1972), directed by Borys Ivchenko. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Professor Yuri Shevchuk will introduce the film and moderate the discussion. Inspired by a Mykola Hohol (a.k.a. Nikolai Gogol) short story, this heroic comedy takes place in 18th…

Sergei Shnurov and His Group ‘Leningrad’: A Window to Russian Rock Music

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join us for a talk with Dragan Kujundžić (University of Florida) about Sergei Shnurov's rock group Leningrad. In 2016, Sergei Shnurov and his group Leningrad released two now-famous video clips, "Exponat" and "V Pitere pit’", which were viewed almost 200 million times in 2016. This occasioned an opportunity for Professor Kujundžić to meet with Sergei Shnurov in St. Petersburg in December…