Анонс встречи с Дмитрием Быковым (offline + online) // Cornell University, March 24, 2022
Dmitry Bykov in Conversation
March 24, 2022 - Thursday - 5:30pm
Dmitry Bykov is one of Russia’s leading public intellectuals, and a Visiting Scholar hosted by Cornell’s Institute for European Studies, under the auspices of the Open Society University Network. Meet with Dmitry for an hour of public conversation with Mabel Berezin, Director of the Institute for European Studies. Prof Berezin will ask him about the role of dissent and intellectual life in Russia, what drove him to becoming a poet and satirist, and his views on the current situation in Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker bios:
Russian dissident Dmitry Bykov is an Open Society University Network fellow and visiting critic based in the Einaudi Center’s Institute for European Studies (IES). One of Russia’s best-known public intellectuals, he is a novelist, poet, critic, satirist, and university professor. Bykov has authored more than 80 books, including novels, poetry, biographies, and literary criticism. He is a three-time winner of the Bolshaya Kniga (Big Book) award, one of Russia’s most prestigious literary prizes. A popular lecturer and public speaker, he has also served as the host of numerous television and radio programs.
Mabel Berezin is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and the Director of the Institute for European Studies. Her expertise lies in the area of extreme and exclusionary forms of nationalism, such as fascism and right-wing populist politics, and the threats that these phenomena pose to democratic political culture and governance. Berezin has written books on Italian fascism; on territorial politics in Europe; and on contemporary French and Italian right-wing politics, including Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy, which was awarded the J. David Greenstone Prize by the American Political Science Association. In addition, Prof. Berezin has also published numerous articles and review essays, and has edited collaborative volumes on democratic culture, emotions and the economy, qualitative methods, and health and culture.
This event is a hybrid event. Those who are not from the Cornell community can attend via Zoom. Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ADf48ogtRq2YLCoZN6x-mw
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