Which Lectures to Attend?

Which lectures to attend? If you are asking yourself this question and are in search of intellectual leisure, I advise you to look closely at the forthcoming events in Moscow.

🧩26 April at 10:00
International conference “The USA and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region” at ISKRAN, 12 Teterinsky Lane, 3rd floor, room 307.

🧩26 April at 19:00
Lecture “Djenné: A Treasury of Culture on the Edge of the Sahara” in the main building of the Museum of the East on Nikitsky Boulevard.

🧩27 April at 15:00
Lecture “Turgenev and France: A History of Relations” at the Francothèque cultural centre of the Library of Foreign Literature.

🧩28 April at 14:00
Lecture “Contemporary French Art” at the Francothèque cultural centre of the Library of Foreign Literature.

🧩28 April at 15:00
Lecture “The Preparation of Shakespeare Editions and the Controversy over Translations in the 1930s” at the centre for the culture of English-speaking countries of the Library of Foreign Literature.

🧩29 April at 19:00
Online lecture by the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University: “Memento mori: Why Do We Need an Awareness of Our Own Mortality, and Do Animals Possess This Capacity?”

🧩30 April at 16:00
Lecture and tour “Russian Cadets in Exile” at the A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad.

🧩2 May at 18:30
Lecture “They Preserved the Treasures: The Tretyakov Gallery in 1941–1945” in the book lounge of the West Wing of the New Tretyakov Gallery.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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