Events at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture

Ilya Kukulin, "Soviet Underground Literature and the Quest for Cultural Legitimacy"
Fri, Mar 31, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
In the 1970s and 1980s, many Soviet unofficial (underground) writers communicated regularly with their friends who had emi
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Curator's Talk: "Fragments of Utopia: Photographs from the VKhUTEMAS Workshops" (in Russian)
Fri, Apr 7, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
Maria Timina, Visiting Curator of Russian and European Art, will give a talk in Russian on the exhibition "Fragments of Ut
...Kaiama Glover, "Haiti and the Fictions of History"
Thu, Apr 13, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Webster Hall, 202
The Amherst College French Department welcomes Prof. Kaiama Glover (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and African Studi
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Samantha Berkhead, The Moscow Times: 'Bear With It, My Beauty': Gender Imbalance and Toxic Masculinity in Wartime Russia
Fri, Apr 14, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has accelerated the country's years-long crackdown on freedoms and rights. Nowhere is this mo
...Book Launch: Luke Parker, "Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile"
Mon, Apr 24, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
A discussion of Professor Luke Parker's new book, Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile, with Roman Utkin (
...Alina Parker, "Post-Soviet Nation Building"
Wed, Apr 26, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
Parker will be speaking on the national question in the Soviet Union and its successor states .
Alina Parker is a D
...Pavel Golubev, "Queer Diaries of Konstantin Somov"
Mon, May 1, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Webster Hall, 202
It is scarcely possible to find such a crucial document in the history of Russian art but also such a disturbing and probl
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