Monday 23rd January 2017 18:30
The Old Library Darwin College Silver St Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Dr John Barber
John Barber is a fellow of King’s College Cambridge. He is the author of Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-32 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1981), co-author (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Home Front, 1941-45: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (Longman, 1991), co-editor (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev (Pelgrave Macmillan, 1999) and co-editor (with Andrei Dzeniskevich) of Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad (Pelgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Thursday 2nd February 2017 18:30
The Old Library Darwin College Silver St Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Dr Olga Kucherenko
Olga Kucherenko is the author of Little Soldiers: How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-45 (OUP, 2011) and Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin (Bloomsbury, 2016). She is currently working on Anglo-Soviet relations in the 1940s.
Monday 6th February 2017 18:30
Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre Cambridge
CB2 1TJ
Dr Jeremy Hicks
Jeremy Hicks is Reader in Russian Culture and Film at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of three books and many articles on Russian and Soviet history, film, literature and journalism, the most recent of which is First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46 (Pittsburgh, 2012).
Presentation and Film Screening ‘Blockade’ by Sergei Loznitsa, 2006, followed by Q&As
video of the lecture
Thursday 23rd February 2017 18:30
The Old Library Darwin College Silver St Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Professor Marina Frolova-Walker, University of Cambridge.
Marina Frolova-Walker is Reader in Music History and a Fellow of Clare College, where she is also Director of Studies in Music. She is the author of Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (Yale University Press, 2007) and Music and Soviet Power, 1917-32 (with Jonathan Walker) (The Boydell Press, 2012), Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale University Press, 2016)
Wednesday 1st March 2017 18:30
The Old Library Darwin College Silver St Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Professor Katharine Hodgson, University of Exeter.
Katherine Hodgson is an Associate Professor in Russian at University of Exeter and the author of: The Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry Canon and Post-Soviet National Identity – with Smith A,, (Peter Lang, 2017), Voicing the Soviet Experience: the Poetry of Olga Berggolts, (British Academy, 2003), Written with the Bayonet: Soviet Russian Poetry of World War Two, (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1996).
Reconfiguring the Canon of Twentieth-Century.
Tuesday 7 March 2017 18:30
Keynes Hall King’s College King’s Parade Cambridge
CB2 1ST
Dr John Barber, University of Cambridge and Professor Jonathan Wells, UCL.
John Barber is a fellow of King’s College Cambridge. He is the author of Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-32, co-author (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Home Front, 1941-45: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (Longman, 1991), co-editor (with Mark Harrison) of The Soviet Defence-Industry Complex from Stalin to Khrushchev (Pelgrave Macmillan, 1999) and co-editor (with Andrei Dzeniskevich) of Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad (Pelgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Jonathan Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Pediatric Nutrition at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He conducts research on children’s body composition and energy metabolism in low- and middle-income countries, and uses an evolutionary perspective to help interpret the data and improve public health programmes.
Thursday 9 March 2017 18:30
Lecture Hall
The Old Divinity School
St. John’s College
Cambridge
CB2 1TP
Caroline Walton
Caroline Walton is the author of several books on Russia and the USSR, including The Besieged – a story of survival, (Biteback Publishing, 2011) based on interviews with survivors of the siege of Leningrad, focusing on those involved in the arts. Her book is the tale of how creativity enabled people to survive the unsurvivable. Caroline also works as a Russian to English literary translator. She is married to a grandson of a siege survivor.
Presentation and Film screening 900 Days (2011) by Jessica Gorter followed by discussion
video of the lecture
Monday 13 March 2017 18:30
The Old Library
Darwin College
Silver Street
Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley
Rosalind P. Blakesley is Head of the Department of History of Art and Reader in Russian and European Art, Cambridge. She is an author of six books and many articles about Russian art.
Friday, 17 March 2017 18:00
The Old Library Darwin College Silver St Cambridge
CB3 9EU
Larissa Haskell, Dr John Barber, Dr Ksenia Afonina and Libby Howie – curators of the exhibition.
Larissa Haskell is an art historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad, Dr John Barber is a historian of the Second World War on the Eastern Front, Ksenia Afonina is an independent curator and researcher into the art of World War II.
Libby Howie is an independent curator with a specialist knowledge of graphic art.
Closing Talk:
Elena Marttila: Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad followed by discussion.
video of the event
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