Durham Seminar in Russian Cultural and Historical Studies

SESSION 2011-2012

Thursday 10th November at 5.00 (ER144)

Polly McMichael (Nottingham)

'"Beware of Fakes!" Rock Music and Authenticity during Stagnation'

Wednesday 23rd November at 5.00

Lara Cook (Durham)

'Collegiality in the People's Commissariats, 1917-20: Revolutionary Administration in the Early Soviet State Apparatus'

Thursday 9th February at 5.00

Katharine Hodgson (Exeter)

'Russian Poetry in the Changing State: The Twentieth-Century Canon after 1991'

Wednesday 2nd May at 5.00 (organised in conjunction with MLAC's LHT research group)

Derek Offord (Bristol)

'Francophonie in pre-Revolutionary Russia'

All seminars will take place in Elvet Riverside, room A56, unless otherwise stated.

Refreshments will be served.

Contact:  andy.byford@durham.ac.uk