Events at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture
Sun, Feb 28, 2021
Conversations about Brodsky: 25 years after Joseph Brodsky's death
Sunday, February 28th, 2021, 11 AM-12 PM EST
Cathy Ciepiela and Polina Barskova in conversation with Christopher Benfey, Sven Birkets, and Jonathan Galassi.
You can register for this event here: https://engage.amherst.edu/event/registrations/index/1102
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Thursday, March 11th, 2021, 12 PM-1 PM EST
A conversation with Anna Narinskaya about the new Brodsky museum in St. Petersburg.
Please register for the event here:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-GhqjkqGdKZU7T83V5q...
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Friday, May 7th, 2021, 1 PM-2 PM EST
A conversation with Glyn Maxwell about his new translation of Brodsky's poetry.
Registration info to come.
All events will be broadcast via zoom.
Thu, Mar 4, 2021
A (Virtual) Book Launch of Egor Kovalevsky’s A Journey to Inner Africa (2020), the first title in the Russian Travelogues series from Amherst College Press
Unfortunately, the event scheduled on March 4, 2021—the Russian Travelogues Series Launch—is canceled. We hope to reschedule an event celebrating the series later this semester. Readers interested in the volume can still access it for free at the site listed below.
With
Anna Aslanyan (independent journalist and translator), volume translator
Sergey Glebov (Smith College/Amherst College), series editor of Russian Travelogues
Mukaram Hhana, co-author of the introduction to the volume
David McDonald (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Readers interested in the volume can read and download it free of charge here:
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12093663
(Full access to the book is made possible by Amherst College Press and Fulcrum; print copies are also available for purchase via the link above)