The Late-Soviet Underground: (Re-)Collecting the Past (with Ainsley Morse, Dartmouth College)
Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York CityIn this talk Professor Ainsley Morse will present a paper which argues for collecting—meaning collecting variously ephemeral “things” (words, poems, books, writers, traditions, ways of life), but also “collecting” as a mode of writing—as both a pathology and a creative mode typical of unofficial literature and art of the late Soviet period. She will focus on two late-Soviet writers: the…