Past Event
LENIN AND THE SACRED: REPRESENTING THE UNREPRERESENTABLE
January 21, 2021
4:15 PM - 6:30 PM
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via Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/95790013339?pwd=cWhqSmE0Rm1SQkREdm5hMVAxWk9oZz09
2021 William E. Harkins Colloquium Guest Speaker
(selected by Slavic graduate student)
ALEXEI YURCHAK
Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on political anthropology, anthropology of science, anthropology of art, and the former Soviet Union. He is the author of the award-winning book Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton University Press, 2006 and NLO 2014). He is currently completing a book manuscript about Lenin's body and the Moscow laboratory that has maintained it since 1924.