[Daviscenter-list] TODAY: Special Event with Artemy Troitsky: “The New Russian Protest Movement and Cultural Policy”

Please join us for a special event! “The New Russian Protest Movement and Cultural Policy” Artemy Troitsky, Journalist, Critic, and Historian Moderated by Professor Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Today: Thursday, February 21 CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium) 4:30-6:30 p.m. In a conversation moderated by Professor Svetlana Boym, Russian rock critic Artemy Troitsky will share his views on the new Russian political opposition, a perspective informed by decades as a tastemaker in Russia’s cultural underground, a professor at Moscow State University, and a frequent high-profile participant in the large-scale protests that have continued throughout Russia’s major cities since the fall of 2011. An engaging, colorful speaker, Troitsky is not to be missed by anyone interested in modern Russia’s political future as well as its cultural past. This event is free and open to the public. [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CE0940.96E21940] --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>