On Tuesday, November 7th please join us for "What's Russian about Russian Realism?", a conference hosted by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. What is specific...
On Tuesday, November 7th please join us for "What's Russian about Russian Realism?", a conference hosted by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
What is specific to the Russian tradition of realist writing and visual art? Often we assume we know what realism is, but to what extent can dominant theoretical approaches account for important differences between national traditions? In other words, what’s Russian about Russian Realism?
Using results from a large scale panel survey of Russian migrants, this talk will discuss the effect of discrimination on the assimilation intentions of Russian migrants, focusing on language learning as a key indicator.
Exploring visual and verbal figurations of the Lenin line in light of Vladimir Vernadsky’s theoretical formulation of the “biosphere,” Porter shows how the ur-queue of Soviet Communism spawned surprisingly heterodox answers to the questions of how time moves and how cultures shape and are shaped by natural forces.
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