A Converstion and Screening with Filmmaker Oleg Mavromatti
If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain and not a piece which represents a baby in arms of a horserider, a piece which is covered over and over with decoration. “Ornament and Crime,” Adolf Loos, 1908
A Converstion and Screening with Filmmaker Oleg Mavromatti
If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain and not a piece which represents a baby in arms of a horserider, a piece which is covered over and over with decoration. “Ornament and Crime,” Adolf Loos, 1908
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Half a century ago, the Soviet Union found itself unexpectedly challenged by a group of Soviet citizens who achieved global fame in the longest battle of the Cold War – the battle of ideas.
Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good life
This talk is based on Elena Borisova’s recent book researching what migration is and what it does in rural Tajikistan – one of the most remittance dependent countries in the world. Exploring this dependency, Borisova moves beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration and foreground the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ and struggle to reproduce their moral communities.
Letters and Notes: A Roundtable on Music and Literature in Ukraine
As part of the 2025 Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, please join us for a discussion of music and literature in Ukraine. We will explore a century of letters and notes from art song to underground rock and everything in between.
Red Decades in Korea: Marxist Socialism as Alternative Modern Culture
Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja), professor of Korean and East Asian studies at Oslo University, will present his recent book, The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945.
