Event of interest at Columbia University's Harriman Institute

Dear SHERAns in New York and environs,

below is a description of an upcoming workshop that may be of interest to
some of you. It will be taking place at Columbia University's Harriman
Institute, an institutional SHERA member.

Ksenya Gurshtein
SHERA Web News Editor


Thursday, February 20, 2014
The Russian Avant-Garde:
Visualized<http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/russian-avant-garde-visualized>
4:00pm-6:00pm
Hamilton 602
Please join the Harriman Institute for a workshop on the Russian
Avant-Garde.

The Avant-Garde in Russia was both verbal and visual.  This workshop
explores especially the visual Avant-Garde (and the intersection between
verbal and visual).

The workshop panel includes:

Marlow Davis<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/student-bios/davis/student.html>
(PhD
program, Slavic, Columbia): Word and Image Performed: Futurist Books
1910-1914

Aleksandar Bošković<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/fac-bios/boskovic/faculty.html>
(Lecturer,
Slavic, Columbia): Unpublished Mayakovsky: An Avant-Garde Photo-poetry Book

Rad Borislavov<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/fac-bios/borislavov/faculty.html>
(ACLS
Fellow, Slavic, Columbia): Viktor Shklovsky on Early Cinema as Art

Ksenia Vytuleva <http://harriman.columbia.edu/people/xenia-vytuleva> (Adjunct
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia): The Architecture of the New Social Order: Dom-Kommuna and the
Triumph of Extreme Solutions

Moderated by: Alan
Timberlake<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/fac-bios/timberlake/faculty.html>
(East
Central European Center / Slavic, Columbia)

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