3 February 2026
Prof Dina Iordanova (Emeritus Professor in Global Cinema, School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Film)
Tell us about your research and how it connects to memory/identity studies?
All my research is focused on the ways cinema represents and recycles the past. In this era of empires falling apart and being reconfigured again, my work on the former Soviet sphere is particularly relevant. My current research on the cinema of the Soviet period that was made in languages different from Russian is an eye opener to a sphere of cultural creation and memory that has been left out of attention for many decades.
What are you working on now?
A series of articles and a monograph on non-Russian language Soviet cinema (including the cinemas of Ukraine, the Caucasus, the Baltics, and the Central Asian republics).