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Russian Internet Memes: The Short Course (with Eliot Borenstein, Fridays at 2 EST)
We are excited to announce a new weekly series of 15-minute informal virtual Zoom lectures about memes and viral video on the Russian Internet, presented by our very own Eliot Borenstein. The first lecture on Friday, April 3rd, “Introduction: Getting Memes Wrong,” will provide background on meme theory and its relationship to the Internet, followed by a brief analysis of one popular Russian Internet meme. Each lecture will be followed by a moderated, on-line discussion, as well as just more general chat…
Find out more »CANCELLED: How Pro-Government “Trolls” Influence Online Conversations in Russia (with Anton Sobolev, Yale University)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! In this talk, Dr. Sobolev will explore the behavior and impact of several hundred “trolls” — paid supporters of Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia who were allegedly employed in late 2014 and early 2015 to leave pro-government comments on the popular social media platform…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Statuary Performances: Neo-Paganism and Memory in the American and Russian Far Right (with Alexandar Mihailovic, Bennington College)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! Whether it be of Robert E. Lee, Tsar Nicholas II, Huey Long or the head of the NKVD Feliks Dzerzhinsky, political statuary evokes a range of impassioned responses from groups as varied as the Proud Boys and Identity Evropa in the United States, to…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism (with Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment,…
Find out more »CANCELLED: Falshfasad: Disavowed Infrastructure and Everyday Marxism in Putin’s PPParadise (with Michal Murawski, University College London)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! How can an architectural or infrastructural project be “fake”? How, in particular, does the (un)reality of architecture play out in Putin-era Russia, a society which critics (both scholars and commentators) frequently caricature as suffused with “post-truth” artifice and devoid of substantive foundations? This article explores…
Find out more »CANCELLED: The Bolsheviks and Postcolonial Sovereignty: Turkey and the Soviet Union at the Lausanne Conference (with Sam Hirst, Bilkent University)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! Sovereignty - so central to the process of Decolonization across much of the Global South - was not a common term in the early language of Marxism-Leninism. The Bolsheviks pursued decolonization at home and developed national institutions for many of the non-Russian peoples of the…
Find out more »CANCELLED: It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia (with Fabrizio Fenghi, Brown University)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political adversaries,…
Find out more »CANCELLED: On Cameras and Guns in Soviet Film Culture (with Maria Vinogradova, New York University)
Due to precautions NYU is taking to prevent the spread of coronavirus, this event, and all other events for the remainder of the semester, have been cancelled. Please check back soon for information regarding rescheduling! In the Soviet pantheon of fantasy-machines cameras and guns occupied a special place: if cinema was proclaimed the most important of all arts, then the most powerful cinema was capable of producing “sniper shots” that delivered a fully truthful, objective and scientific image of the…
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