Munk School lecture series in Toronto

[Nicola Kuchta]

(Apologies for cross-listing)

For all those in the Toronto area the first week of November offers an exciting string of lectures:

Sergei Kapterev, Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of Cinema Art in Moscow, will be giving a series of lectures on Nov. 5, 6, and 7 in conjunction with the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. Limited details about his talks can be found through the following links:

Nov. 5: The Uneven Balance. Soviet-American Contacts in the Sphere of Cinema in the 1960s-1970s

Nov. 6: Soviet Attitudes to Persia and Western Asia in the Armenian Epic Khaspush (Armenia, 1927). Followed by film screening (73 min.) (Also part of the Diaspora Film Festival)

Nov. 7: From Acute Confrontation to 'Peaceful Coexistence.' Reflections of the Cold War in Soviet Films under Stalin and in the Early Khrushchev Era

Also in the context of the of the Munk School's events, Adriana Helbig (Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh) will be speaking Nov. 8 and 9. 

Nov. 8: Heritage: the Study and Practice of Ours and Theirs

Nov. 9: Spirituals, Jazz, and Hip-Hop: Musical Mediations of Blackness in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine

Best regards,

 
Nicola Kuchta


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