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SUMMARY:Sense of Place lecture series: &quot\;The Arctic in the Russian Im
 agination&quot\; - Lilya Kaganovsky (Illinois) 
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DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on the ways the Russian North\, the Arcti
 c and Siberia have been imagined through different historical/political mo
 ments of the early Soviet period to the present day. My present talk is di
 vided roughly into five sections: 1) defining the North 2) the early Sovie
 t period of expansion 3) Stalinist Polar exploration 4) the GULAG Archipel
 ago\, Siberia as the place of internment/incarceration\; 5) and erasure: p
 ost-1992\, the camps as lost sites of memory\; oil and mineral extraction\
 ; the impact on indigenous populations. In examining these shifts in repre
 sentation\, my goal is to showcase how the Arctic in the Russian/Soviet im
 aginary is not static\, but has been consistently reconfigured through var
 ious historical and ideological paradigms\, each set to in some way erase 
 or reconceive the historical imaginary that came before.\n\nBio: Lilya Kag
 anovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic\, Comparative Literature\, and Me
 dia & Cinema Studies\, and the Director of the Program in Comparative & Wo
 rld Literature at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. Her publi
 cations include How the Soviet Man was Unmade (Pittsburgh\, 2008)\; the ed
 ited volumes Mad Men\, Mad World: Sex\, Politics\, Style and the 1960s (La
 uren M. E. Goodlad\, Lilya Kaganovsky and Robert A. Rushing\, Duke\, 2013)
  and Sound\, Speech\, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema (Lilya Kagano
 vsky and Masha Salazkina\, Indiana\, 2014)\; and articles on Soviet and po
 st-Soviet cinema. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal St
 udies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and regularly contributes film reviews 
 to the on-line cinema journal KinoKultura. She is currently completing a b
 ook on Soviet cinemas transition to sound (The Voice of Technology: Soviet
  Cinemas Transition to Sound\, 1928-1935\;  under contract with Indiana UP
 )\, and starting new work on early Soviet documentaries.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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