Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger's new book, "Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism" The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, ...

Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work, including in the form of entire universities, specific schools and departments, standalone institutes and centers, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula, to name just a few. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: first, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning, including the sciences, the social ...