On Wednesdays, as is our custom, I share a selection of intellectual events for the coming week
🧩22 May at 18:00
Presentation of F. Holt's book «When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics from Antiquity to Pop Culture» at the State Public Historical Library of Russia, 9 Starosadsky Lane.
🧩22 May at 19:00
Lecture by O.A. Zhukova «The Tidings of Freedom: How Nikolai Berdyaev Understands Philosophy» at the A.F. Losev House library, 33 Arbat.
🧩23 May at 19:00
Lecture «The Dawn of the Middle Ages: St Bede and Alcuin» from the lecture series «Ante lucem. Latin Literature of Early Britain» at the Rudomino Library of Foreign Literature, 1 Nikoloyamskaya Street.
🧩24 May at 18:00
Seminar «Status-Oriented Behaviour and the Growth of Infrastructural Power in the Romanov Empire of the "Long Eighteenth Century"» at the European University at Saint Petersburg and online.
🧩25 May at 11:00
Lecture «"The Columbuses of Russian Antiquities": The World of Moscow Collectors in the Early Nineteenth Century» at the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin.
🧩25 May at 16:00
Lecture by P.V. Ryabov «Conservative (Black Hundreds) Parties: Ideological, Organisational and Psychological Origins (up to Autumn 1905)» at the Nauchka library, 20 Dubininskaya Street.
🧩26 May at 15:00
Lecture by Darya Lugovskaya «The Crisis of Symbolist Criticism: Russian Literary Criticism from 1890 to 1917» at the Peredelkino Creative House.
🧩28 May at 19:00
Seminar by Elena Zelinskaya «Searching for Repressed Relatives: Where to Begin?» at the Museum of the History of the Gulag, 9 1st Samotechny Lane.
🧩28 May at 18:00
Online lecture by Natalya Masolikova «...Concentrate on What You Have: Tamara Wulfovna Dembo» from the series «Women's Portraits of the Russian Scientific Emigration in the Twentieth Century» by the House of Russian Abroad.
