In 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…
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Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). In the 1990s, political and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia neither absolutely failed nor turned out to be obviously successful. It is better to say that their results became unpredictable for their initiators, as well as for participants and witnesses. Among these unforeseen consequences are…
A Conversation with Mark Rucker The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Mark Rucker, the stalwart American baritone who has sung leading Verdi roles at the Met, London, Vienna, Berlin and elsewhere, and is also one of the most important opera educators of our time, ably passing on his knowledge to future generations of singers. In ENGLISH. From the Casa…