The Prehistoric Front of the Cold War: Soviet Debates on the Origins of Art and the Human
Michael Kunichika, Amherst College
Tue, 9/24 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Humanities Council
Lecture Series | Overcoming Bipolarity: New Approaches to the Cold War
Michael Kunichika teaches at Amherst College, where he is professor and chair of Russian. He also serves as the director of the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His publications include his award-winning monograph “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in Russian Modernism (2015). Having recently completed another book Specters of Empire: Race and Revolution in Early Soviet Cinema, he is now at work on a monograph on prehistoric archaeology and the culture of late socialism from which his talk will be drawn. His scholarship has been supported by the Davis Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, where he was a senior fellow, and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), where he was Willis F. Doney Member in the School for Historical Studies.
Sponsored by the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Humanities Council. Co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values.
