Presented by IHC Visual Culture Research Focus Group Svetlana Boym “Freedom of Expression and Russian-American Art” Monday, May 19 / 12-2 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room / 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Svetlana Boym explores the issues of the "freedom of expression" from a cross-cultural perspective. In the center is the Russian myth of America and the reflection on the mythical cold war border in the works of contemporary Russian-American artists. Svetlana Boym is a writer and Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of The Future of Nostalgia (2001), Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future (2001 with Adam Bartos), Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia and Death in Quotation Marks, as well as of short stories, plays, and a novel, Ninochka (2003). She is a native of St. Petersburg, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This event is cosponsored by the UCSB Department of Political Science, Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, IHC East European Research Focus Group and IHC Visual Culture Research Focus Group. Top of Page <<Back