September 25: Darya Tsymbalyuk (2nd year PhD student Russian & IR): ‘Memory of coal: from the Carboniferous Period to industrialisation’ (13:00, UCO Room 30)
October 30:Mikhail Vodopyanov (Lector in Russian), ‘Construction of Memory of Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Nonfiction.’ (UCO – Quad Room 32 12pm).
November 27: Dr Isabel Segui Fuentes (Film Studies), ‘Popular Struggles Against Bolivian Dictatorships: Women’s Films and Other Media Testimonios’ (UCO – Quad Room 30 12pm).
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Isabel Segui Fuentes, ‘Popular Struggles Against Bolivian Dictatorships: Women’s Films and Other Media Testimonios’ (UCO – Quad Room 30 12pm).
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Cultural Memory Research Group and CRSCEES present
Mikhail Vodopyanov: ‘Construction of Memory of the Soviet Past in Contemporary Russian Nonfiction’
In recent years, the Soviet past has been a pervasive influence on contemporary Russian public discourse. How is memory of the Soviet past constructed in nonfiction writing, and what discursive strategies and linguistic means are employed for this purpose? Mikhail Vodopyanov, lector in Russian, will consider these questions in a discussion of short nonfiction by the contemporary Russian writer and public intellectual Tatyana Tolstaya (b. 1951) of the Tolstoy family.
30 October, UCO – Quad Room 32, 12 pm
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Cultural Memory Research Group & CRSCEES present:
Darya Tsymbalyuk (2nd year PhD student Modern Languages & IR)
‘Memory of Coal: From the Carboniferous Period to Industrialisation’
25th of September, 1 pm, Quad 30
“Focusing on the case of Donbas, Ukraine, in this work-in-progress piece Darya will examine diverse narratives contained in a piece of coal and how these memories have been joined into one narrative in arts, literature and oral history from and about the region.”
