Free and open to the public!
Light refreshments will be served.
We would like to warmly invite you to attend the second installment of Emerging Publics: Cultural Criticism Beyond the Academy lecture series. Our first workshop and talk will be on Friday, February 14th, featuring acclaimed translator and literary critic Bela Shayevich. Find more on these events here.
On February 21st, we are delighted to host Sophie Pinkham. A writer specializing in Soviet and post-Soviet, socialist and post-socialist culture, history, and politics, she is also a Professor of Practice in the Comparative Literature Department at Cornell University. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, n+1, the London Review of Books and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has prompted a reconsideration of Russia’s cultural legacy. The invasion, along with years of mounting political repression, has also caused an exodus of major cultural figures from Russia. This lecture will discuss the changes in perceptions of Russian cultural heritage and contemporary culture after the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and explore the role of critics and journalists in covering Russian culture in wartime.
This programming is possible thanks to the generous support of the Yale Poynter Fellowship in Journalism; Yale Public Humanities; Yale Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and the New Haven Free Public Library.