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“A Moment of Misconception: 1999, or How Vladimir Putin Became the Successor”
18 December, 12:00...
(Ne)moi text: an Open Call
Deadline is April...
14 Ways of Writing
December, 8, 6:30...
Anatomy of Destruction, an attempt to create an empathy machine
November, 16, 11...
Antidote against Tyranny? The Case of Russian Independent Media
February 1, 2023,...
Autofiction and Scandal
May, 23, 2024,...
Autofiction between Fiction and Trauma
April 18, 7...
Birth of Modern Capitalism? Two Talks on Antonio Serra’s Breve trattato
28 February, 2024...
Book Launch: Written in West Berlin by Larissa Muravieva
June 17, 19:00...
Chronicle of Historical Politics during the Russian-Ukrainian War
7 March, 16:30...
Contemporary Philosophy at the Crossroads with Nihilism
June, 28, 2024,...
Culture as Politics: Archeology of National Knowledge
Ilya Kalinin |...
Digital Echoes: The Future Integrity of Archival Storage
October 27, Andrei...
Elusive horizons: films by Masha Godovannaya
April 29, 7...
Evgeny Yufit: Exploring a Necrorealist Archive
June 14, 2024,...
Film Program ‘From “Etudes” to Necrocinema’ in the Austrian Film Museum
November 5, Film...
For Men Do Not Live by Bread Alone: Psychological Rehabilitation in Postwar Europe
2 December, 18:00...
Friendship Screenings. № 1: Masha Godovannaya
Monday, 9 June,...
Higher Education Abroad: Where to Start
December 15, 7...
How the World Has Changed Since We Founded Smolny
April, 15, 2024,...
How to apply for a PhD in the US: Art History
March, 15, 2023...
How to get an educational scholarship: personal experience
August, 17, 2024...
Investigating Stalin’s Terror Through Photography
September 22, Denis...
IWT Workshop: Writing to Learn
October, 21– 25,...
Kashubian Language in Modern Poland
10 March, 6:30...
My Work with People with Mental Disabilities in the UK
May, 20, 2024,...
Narratologies to come
February, 6, 2024....
On Negotiations Capabilities in the Modern World
December, 19 4...
Open Lecture – AI in Tough Places
Tuesday, 20 May,...
Panel Study of Russian Public Opinion and Attitudes
April 5, 2024...
Photography and Political Repression in Stalin’s Russia
April 23, 7...
Queer Partisaning: Traces of Queer Relationality as Cinematic Errantry
November, 14, Masha...
Reading and Discussion of the Play “Crime” by Esther Bol
November 9, Reading...
Religious Experience and Human Development
September 11, discussion...
Representing Trauma in Culture: Possibilities and Limits of Liberation
5 December, 18:00...
Rhetorical foundations of society: Putin as a metaphor and/or metonymy of Russia
January 16 (Tuesday),...
Rituals of Queer Relatedness
November, 10, 14:00,...
Russia’s Casus Belli: Memory Politics or Political Propaganda?
June, 8, 2024,...
Russian Autofiction: Why Is It Needed?
Lecture by Larissa...
Russian Universities in Exile
Discussion Moderator: Boris...
Sasha Skochilenko’s talk at BCB
Monday, April 7,...
Soviet Atlantis. A Melancholic Fantasy of the Post-Soviet Subject
Ilya Kalinin |...
Soviet Discourse on Oil. Its Grammar and Vocabulary
January, 18, 2024....
Soviet Machiavellism?
May, 8, 2024,...
Spotlight 2024: Data and technology versus propaganda
February 17 -...
Telematics to Telehaptics
September 14, Natalia...
There Is Still More To Come
06 Dec 2024...
Through Aggression to Peace: Thoughts on Conflict Resolution and Mediation
February, 9 2023,...
To Be the Wind for the Tree: Generative Poetry Lab
May, 25, 2024,...
University in Exile?
Discussion Moderator: Boris...
War and The Decay of The Language and #25 [Translit]: bol’she net slov
Natalia Fedorova &...
Fall 2022 – Fall 2025 Courses
Academic English
Anna Brækkan | S25 F
Ancient Culture: Polis, Family, Personality
Ilya Kalinin | F24 M W
Anthropological Aspects of Digital Technology
Ilya Utekhin | F24 FR
Anti-Colonial Museum and the Practice of Reconciliation
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Artist in Power: The King as Narrator
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F25
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | MAR – APR S23
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | NOV – DEC F23
Beautiful Russia of the Future: The Political Legacy of Alexei Navalny
Venyavkin, Gessen, Gilev, Kalinin | OCT F24
Cinema around the Balkans
Jan Levchenko | MAR – APR S25
Climate Crisis and the Struggle for Equality
Felix Jaitner | FEB – APR S25
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | S23 M W
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F23 T T
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F24 T T
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – OCT F24
Contemporary Art in Russia
Stanislav Savitski | F23 T T
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S24 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S25 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | F25 Mon Wed
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F23 W
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F24 W
Decadence on the Screen
Olga Kirillova | JUN 9 — JUL 18
Diary Film
Masha Godovannaya | S25 M W
Diary Film, Autoethnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S24 M W
Disability and Human Rights: Activism and Practice
Vera Shengeliya | F25 Tue
Disability Representation in the Cultural Institutions
Vera Shengeliya | FEB15 – APR18 | TH
Dissent! Politics, Justice, Dignity
Pinar Kemerli | S23 T T
Documentary Poetry
Galina Rymbu | MAR – APR S25
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | SEP – NOV F24
Does Might Make Right? Ancient Perspectives on an Enduring Dilemma
Thomas Bartscherer | S24 Tu
Dystopia: history, poetics, pragmatics
Dmitry Bykov | MAR27 – APR26 | W F
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry
Galina Rymbu | APR – MAY S25
Empowering People with Disabilities: Community Support and Advocacy
Vera Shengeliya | FEB12 – APR15 | M
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUNE6 – AUG22 | TH
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUN 3 — JUL 11
Experimental feminist/ woman’s poetry
Galina Rymbu | NOV21 – DEC21 | T T
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S25
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUNE10 – JULY3 | M T W
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUN 9 — JUL 2
Foundations of Data Analysis
Vera Ivanova | F25 Mon Thu
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S24 Fr
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S25 MON
Generative AI and Global Media
Daria Minsky | FEB – APR S25
Geospatial Analysis in Social Sciences
Vera Ivanova | ARP – MAY S25
Global Middle Ages?
Victor Apryshchenko | JUNE11 - JULY3 | M T W
Historical Memory and the Politics of Memory
Yurii Latysh | F25 Fri
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S25 W F
History of Globalization since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F25 Tue
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F24 T T
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F25 Tue Thu
History of History, or How Modernity Comprehends the Past
Victor Apryshchenko | S23 T T
History of the World since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F24 M W
Homo Medievalis: Culture and the Individual in the Middle Ages
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 M W
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S24 T T
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S25 T T
Intro to Data Analysis
Evgeniya Polyakova | S25 T T
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Pavel Kononenko | S25 M W
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F24 M
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F25 Fri
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F23 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F24 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F25 Mon Wed
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F24 T T
Introduction to Liberal Arts Mathematics
Andrei Rodin | F25 Tue Thu
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
Denis Skopin | SEP – OCT F24
Machines of No More War
Natalia Fedorova | S24 T T
Machines of No More War
Natalia Fedorova | S25 TUE
Memory and Archives in Russia
Tamara Velikodneva | S25 T T
Memory and Digital Archives
Tamara Velikodneva | F25 Mon Wed
Methodology of Science: Doubt, Truth, and Critical Thinking
Michael Allakhverdov | JUN 9 — JUL 3
Origins of Political Economy
Danila Raskov | F25 Tue Thu
Philosophy and Literature on Moral Sense
Garris Rogonyan | JULY8 – AUG9 | M F
Philosophy of War and Peace
Artemy Magun | S24 TH
Philosophy of War and Peace
Artemy Magun | S25 TH
Political Economy in Retrospect
Danila Raskov | S24 T T
Political Economy in Retrospect
Danila Raskov | S25 T T
Political History of Documentary Photography in Russia
Denis Skopin | S23 M W
Political History of Documentary Photography in Russia
Denis Skopin | FEB19 – MAR21 | M TH
Practices of Autofiction
Larissa Muravieva | F25 Tue
Prison and Hard Labor in Russian Literature
Dmitry Bykov | OCT31– DEC1 | T T
Putinism as an Ideology
Ilia Veniavkin | JAN – FEB W23
Putinism as an Ideology
Ilia Veniavkin | S24 M TH
Python and Data Processing for the Humanities
Ivan Iufriakov | S24 Т Т
Qualitative Research Methods
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 Tu
Rethinking Political Economy
Danila Raskov | JUN 10 — JUL 8
Russian Cultural Revolution of the 1920s – 1930s
Ilya Kalinin | JUNE3 – JULY10 | M W
Russian Emigrant as a Cultural Hero
Dmitry Bykov | APR – MAY S25
Russian Folklore: Myth, Rumor, and Cultural Memory
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F25
Russian History since 1985
Victor Apryshchenko | S25 T T
Russian Immigrant as a Cultural Hero
Dmitry Bykov | OCT – NOV F24
Russian Politics after 1991
Aleksey Gilev | F24 M W
Russian Politics after 1991
Aleksey Gilev | F25 Mon Thu
Science and War
Andrei Rodin | NOV– DEC F22
Sexuality and Disability: Intersecting Identities
Vera Shengeliya | MAR – APR S25
Social Documentary Photography
Denis Skopin | FEB – APR S25
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | JUN 9 — JUL 18
Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language
Oleksandr Vasiukov | F25
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S23 M W
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S24 M W
Soviet Origins of Contemporary Russia
Aleksey Gilev | S25 M W
Sustainable Development: Natural Resources Governance
Pavel Kononenko | F25 Wed
Teen Literature as a Challenge
Dmitry Bykov | FEB14 – MAR15 | W F
Teen Literature as a Challenge
Dmitry Bykov | FEB – MAR S25
The Art and Thought of the Renaissance
Maria Chernysheva | S25 M TH
The Art and Thought of the Renaissance: Mimesis in Artistic Theory and Practices
Maria Chernysheva | S24 T T
The Art of Data Analysis: Data Visualization
Vera Ivanova | MAY 5 – JUN 5
The Olympics, Charity, and Soviet Legacy
Vera Shengeliya | JAN – FEB W23
The Olympics, Charity, and Soviet Legacy
Vera Shengeliya | OCT – DEC F24
The Politics of Truth and Falsehood
Garris Rogonyan | F25 Mon Thu
The Russia Paradox: Intellectual History of the Russian Empire
Victor Apryshchenko | F24 TH
The Russia Paradox: Political History of the Russian Empire(s)
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 M W
The Western Film on the Soviet Screen
Jan Levchenko | MAY 7 – JUN 5
Thinking Through Conflict
Michael Allakhverdov | F25 Tue Thu
Thriller Aesthetics
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F23
Thriller Aesthetics
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F24
Trauma Narratives in Contemporary Russian Literature
Larissa Muravieva | OCT – NOV F23
Trauma Narratives in Contemporary Russian-language Literature
Larissa Muravieva | F24 TH
Understanding Human Behavior
Michael Allakhverdov | S25 T T
Unofficial Late Soviet Culture
Stanislav Savitski | S23 W F
Utopian Economic Thinking
Danila Raskov | F24 W
Visual Media in the Past and Present
Jan Levchenko | F25 Tue Thu
Walter Benjamin
Garris Rogonyan | S25 T F
War and the Decay of Language
Natalia Fedorova | NOV – DEC F22
War Shocks and Economic Development
Vsevolod Ostapenko | NOV F22
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
Atanassow & Bartscherer | S23 Tu
Wittgenstein: Language, World, and Ethics
Garris Rogonyan | JUNE3 – JULY5 | M F
Writing Across Disciplines
Natalia Fedorova | F23 T T
Writing Across Disciplines
Natalia Fedorova | F24 T T