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Russian Internet Memes: The Short Course (with Eliot Borenstein, Fridays at 2 EST)

We are excited to announce a 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....

We are excited to announce a 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.

Each lecture will be followed by a moderated, on-line discussion, as well as just more general chat for anyone who feels like staying on-line.

The lecture portion will subsequently be uploaded to YouTube.

 

Lecture Two: The `Putin is a D**khead' Meme

Though its origins are in a 2014 Ukrainian soccer chant, the phrase “Путин—хуйло” (“Putin is a dickhead”) quickly moved to the Internet, in Russian, Ukrainian, and even English-language memes.  Discover the magic of geopolitical urology  in this 15-minute presentation.

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University. He is the author of Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism, and Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power (Fall 2020).  His current projects includes the recently-submitted Russia’s Alien Nations: The Secret Identities of PostsocialismThe World Inside Your Head: Marvel Comics in the 1970s (to be serialized in draft form through Cornell University Press and as a blog), and Meanwhile, in Russia…: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video (under contract with Bloomsbury Press).

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