18 December, 12:00 NY / 18:00 Berlin, online journey through...
Courses
Winter 2022
(Ne)moi text: an Open Call
Deadline is April 1
14 Ways of Writing
December, 8, 6:30 pm UTC+1, literary reading by Natalia Fedorova...
Academic English
Anna Brækkan | S25 F
Anatomy of Destruction, an attempt to create an empathy machine
November, 16, 11 am - 6 pm UTC+1, workshop by...
Ancient Culture: Polis, Family, Personality
Ilya Kalinin | F24 M W
Anthropological Aspects of Digital Technology: Introduction to Digital Humanities
Ilya Utekhin | F24 FR
Anti-Colonial Museum and the Practice of Reconciliation
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Antidote against Tyranny? The Case of Russian Independent Media
February 1, 2023, 6:00 pm. Panel discussion at Bard College...
Artist in Power: The King as Narrator
Dmitry Bykov | SEP – OCT F25
Autofiction and Scandal
May, 23, 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CET Lecture...
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | MAR – APR S23
Autofiction at the Crossroads of Experience and Writing
Larissa Muravieva | NOV – DEC F23
Autofiction between Fiction and Trauma
April 18, 7 pm CET Lecture by Larissa Muravieva (in...
Beautiful Russia of the Future: The Political Legacy of Alexei Navalny
Venyavkin, Gessen, Gilev, Kalinin | OCT F24
Birth of Modern Capitalism? Two Talks on Antonio Serra’s Breve trattato
28 February, 2024 Two talks on Antonio Serra at the...
Book Launch: Written in West Berlin by Larissa Muravieva
June 17, 19:00 | Babel Books Berlin
Chronicle of Historical Politics during the Russian-Ukrainian War
7 March, 16:30 CET Presentation by Yurii Latysh and Sergei...
Cinema around the Balkans
Jan Levchenko | MAR – APR S25
Citizen Science
Spring 2026 | Evgeniya Polyakova & Michael Allakhverdov
Climate Crisis and the Struggle for Equality
Felix Jaitner | FEB – APR S25
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | S23 M W
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F23 T T
Cognitive Aspects of Conflict Resolution
Michael Allakhverdov | F24 T T
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – NOV F23
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | SEP – OCT F24
Comparative Case Studies within the Disability Rights Movement
Vera Shengeliya | APR – MAY S26
Contemporary Art in Russia
Stanislav Savitski | F23 T T
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S24 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | S25 M W
Contemporary Cultural and Literary Theories
Ilya Kalinin | F25 Mon Wed
Contemporary Philosophy at the Crossroads with Nihilism
June, 28, 2024, 7:30 pm – Book Launch with Artemy...
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F23 W
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights: Human Rights and Spectatorship
Denis Skopin | F24 W
Culture as Politics: Archeology of National Knowledge
Ilya Kalinin | Monday, December 19, 7 pm (UTC+3)
Decadence on the Screen
Olga Kirillova | JUN 9 — JUL 18
Diary Film
Masha Godovannaya | S25 M W
Diary Film, Autoethnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S24 M W
Diary Film, AutoEthnography, and Poetic Film Writing
Masha Godovannaya | S26 Mon Wed
Digital Echoes: The Future Integrity of Archival Storage
October 27, Andrei Rodin's Talk at Bard College Berlin.
Disability and Human Rights: Activism and Practice
Vera Shengeliya | F25 Tue
Disability Representation in the Cultural Institutions
Vera Shengeliya | FEB15 – APR18 | TH
Dissent! Politics, Justice, Dignity
Pinar Kemerli | S23 T T
Documentary Poetry
Galina Rymbu | MAR – APR S25
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | SEP – NOV F24
Documentary Poetry: Politics of Memory and the ‘Desire for an Archive’
Galina Rymbu | FEB – MAR S26
Does Might Make Right? Ancient Perspectives on an Enduring Dilemma
Thomas Bartscherer | S24 Tu
Dystopia: history, poetics, pragmatics
Dmitry Bykov | MAR27 – APR26 | W F
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry
Galina Rymbu | APR – MAY S25
Ecocritical Reading of Russophone Poetry of the 20th-21st Centuries
Galina Rymbu | APR – MAY S26
Elusive horizons: films by Masha Godovannaya
April 29, 7 pm, Film screening at Cineteca Nacional, Mexico...
Empowering People with Disabilities: Community Support and Advocacy
Vera Shengeliya | FEB12 – APR15 | M
English Composition
Fall 2025 | Anna Brækkan & Natalia Fedorova
Evgeny Yufit: Exploring a Necrorealist Archive
June 14, 2024, A Screening in the UCL. Presented by...
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUNE6 – AUG22 | TH
Experimental Feminist / Woman’s Poetry
Galina Rymbu | JUN 3 — JUL 11
Experimental feminist/ woman’s poetry
Galina Rymbu | NOV21 – DEC21 | T T
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S25
Exploring Disability Identity
Vera Shengeliya | FEB – MAR S26
Feminization of History in the Culture of the 19th century
June, 6, 2024, 7:00 pm – Presentation at the Reforum...
Film Culture in Transatlantic Perspective
Jan Levchenko | S26
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUNE10 – JULY3 | M T W
Film Diary: Archiving of The Everyday
Masha Godovannaya | JUN 9 — JUL 2
Film Program ‘From “Etudes” to Necrocinema’ in the Austrian Film Museum
November 5, Film Program by Masha Godovannaya in the Austrian...
First-Year Seminar I
Fall 2025 | Victor Apryshchenko & Denis Skopin
First-Year Seminar II
Spring 2026 | Ilya Kalinin & Pavel Kononenko
For Men Do Not Live by Bread Alone: Psychological Rehabilitation in Postwar Europe
2 December, 18:00 Guest Lecture (by Dr. Stella Maria Frei)...
Foundations of Data Analysis
Vera Ivanova | F25 Mon Thu
Freedom of Expression
Denis Skopin | S26
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S24 Fr
French Modernism
Larissa Muravieva | S25 MON
Friendship Screenings. № 1: Masha Godovannaya
Monday, 9 June, 2025
Future in the Past / Past in the Future: Grammar of the Present and (Post) Soviet Cinematography
Ilya Kalinin | Monday, December 12, 7 pm (UTC+3)
Generative AI and Global Media
Daria Minsky | FEB – APR S25
Geospatial Analysis
Vera Ivanova | S26 Tue
Geospatial Analysis in Social Sciences
Vera Ivanova | ARP – MAY S25
Global Middle Ages?
Victor Apryshchenko | JUNE11 - JULY3 | M T W
Higher Education Abroad: Where to Start
December 15, 7 pm (GMT+3) A workshop on how to...
Historical Memory and the Politics of Memory
Yurii Latysh | F25 Fri
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S25 W F
Historical Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Yurii Latysh | S25
Historical Past and Contemporary Propaganda in the Global Context
June, 7 - 8, 2024 (Center for Comparative Research on...
History of Globalization since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F25 Tue
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F24 T T
History of History Painting
Maria Chernysheva | F25 Tue Thu
History of History, or How Modernity Comprehends the Past
Victor Apryshchenko | S23 T T
History of the World since 1300
Victor Apryshchenko | F24 M W
Homo Medievalis: Culture and the Individual in the Middle Ages
Victor Apryshchenko | S24 M W
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S24 T T
How Did Math Begin to Rule?
Andrei Rodin | S25 T T
How the World Has Changed Since We Founded Smolny
April, 15, 2024, 5:30 PM CET Public Talk by Nikolai...
How to apply for a PhD in the US: Art History
March, 15, 2023 Workshop led by Ivan Chernyakov
How to get an educational scholarship: personal experience
August, 17, 2024 11 am CET Natalia Fedorova, Zlata Pavlovskaya,...
Intro to Data Analysis
Evgeniya Polyakova | S25 T T
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Pavel Kononenko | S25 M W
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F24 M
Introduction to Dialectics
Artemy Magun | F25 Fri
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F23 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F24 M W
Introduction to Film Language
Masha Godovannaya | F25 Mon Wed