CCE Events

Hipster Meets the Ghost of Communism: New Laborers of Soviet Factories

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin Humanities, Room 303

As part of this semester's Memory Studies seminar, Margarita Kuleva, Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU's Russian and Slavic Department, will deliver a guest lecture on the new generation of creative laborers re-inhabiting former Soviet factories with post-industrial projects, such as contemporary art centers, creative spaces, and clusters. Kuleva will address their working lives and memory of space, the new "stakhanovization" of labor, and the role of these "cultural oases" in post-Soviet cities. The lecture is based on ethnographic data and includes examples from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. This event is sponsored by OSUN, the Gagarin Center at Bard, and Bard Programs in Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please contact Victor Apryshchenko

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