May 3 - 4, 2013 | Working Conference at Columbia University Dostoevsky in Context: On Friday, May 3-4, 2013, there will be a working conference at Columbia University for...
May 3 - 4, 2013 | Working Conference at Columbia University
Dostoevsky in Context: On Friday, May 3-4, 2013, there will be a working conference at Columbia University for the participants in a volume entitled Dostoevsky in Context. Since conference space is limited, NYU faculty and students interested in attending should contact Deborah Martinsen (dm387@columbia.edu ), one of the conference organizers, for more information.
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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