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Date

Subject

Venue

Participants

Friday 25 January, 2008
at 5:30pm
(Week 2)

‘Hamid Ismailov’s Railway: Appropriated Russianness?’

Swire Seminar Room,
12 Merton Street,
University College, Oxford

By Hamid Ismailov & Robert Chandler,
chaired by Dr. Philip Bullock (Wadham)

Friday 22 February, 2008
at 5:30pm
(Week 6)

‘The Use of the Russian Language in Contemporary Central Asian Cinema’

Swire Seminar Room,
12 Merton Street,
University College, Oxford

By Eugenie Zvonkine (University Paris VIII)

Friday 7 March, 2008
at 5.30pm
(Week 8)

‘Soviet Oriental?: Socialist Realism and Formation of Identities in Soviet Central Asia’

Swire Seminar Room,
12 Merton Street,
University College, Oxford

By Aliya de Tiesenhausen (Courtauld Institute of Art),
chaired by Dr. Michael Nicholson (University)