FRINGE Projects

When: May 2018
Where: UCL SSEES and UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

In contemporary discourse inside and outside Russia, ‘Russianness’ has become a rhetorical and conceptual point of contention. Starting with the premise that there is no single ‘fundamental’ Russian cultural formation—all relationships are historically produced and need to be made—we propose to examine the strategies of discursive constructions of Russianness and the Russian identity as enacted through cultural production in the geographically, chronologically and culturally distinct locations (across Russia and diaspora)

Project Leader: Dr. Maria Rubins

The Centre Cannot Hold? Neo-Modernity,New Monumentality and Other Zombie Urban Utopias 

This project explore the aesthetics, politics, economics and affects of centrality and monumentality, from their 20th century golden age to their contemporary inheritances, afterlives, ruins and appropriations

Squatting, Schwarzwohnen, Favelas: Illegal Housing as a Global Phenomenon

This project will bring together global scholarship on squatting. Conceptual and intellectual parallels shall be established between Eastern Europe and other global areas.