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SSEES's Russian Cinema Research Group was founded in the autumn of 2002.
The Russian Cinema Research Group draws upon the holdings of the UCL SSEES Video and DVD collection and on the expertise of staff working on Russian film in SSEES, UCL and other British universities.
The research group holds regular work in progress seminars and welcomes visiting scholars working in the field. It has hosted over 100 speakers, from the UK, Russia, the USA, Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Hungary, Norway and Ukraine.
Day/Time: Mondays, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Currently RCRG events are held via Zoom
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Recent Events
- Spring Term 2021
Spring 2021 25 January 2021,
6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Heterotopia DAU: Cinema, Crisis and Isolated Spaces
With Alexandre Zaezjev (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University, New York, USA)
01 February 2021,
6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Women of Tomorrow? Female Film Professionals in Pre-revolutionary Russia
With Dr Anna Kovalova
10 May 2021, 5:30pm Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre and the Politics of Affect under Stalin
With Dr Anna Toropova
- Autumn Term 2020
02 November 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Translating ‘Queer Theory’ into Russian
Misha Yakovlev (University of Warwick)
07 December 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
DAU: Excess, Hysteria, Destruction
Roundtable discussion of Ilya Khrzhanovskiy’s DAU project with Birgit Beumers (Aberystwyth), Philip Cavendish (UCL SSEES), Natascha Drubek-Meyer (Berlin), Michał Murawski (UCL SSEES) and Eugénie Zvonkine (Paris VIII). Moderated by Rachel Morley (UCL SSEES)
- Spring Term 2020
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
3 February
The Adventures of Classical Film Plotting in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Chicago)
- Autumn Term 2019
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
11 November
Who Are the Russians in the Documentaries? Analysing the Everyday in Russian TV Documentary Films
Anastasia Kriachko Roeren (University of Oslo)
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
9 December
Anastasia Kostina (Yale University)
- Spring Term 2019
18 February 2019, 6 - 8pm, Room 347 Nathan Brand - Promising a better yesterday? Conservative Readings of Russian Auteur Blockbusters 18 March 2019, 6 - 8pm, Room 347 Adelaide McGinity-Peebles - ‘You’re not supposed to like us, you’re supposed to fear us’: Recent cinematic representations of the state in the provincial Russian town - Autumn Term 2018
15 October 2018, 6 - 8pm, Room 347 Sergei Kachkin - Being Independent in Russian Filmmaking 10 December 2018, 6 - 8pm, Room 347 Serian Carlyle - The Labours of Mother Russia: Pregnancy in Russian and Soviet Cinema - Spring Term 2018
- Autumn Term 2017
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