The Prehistoric Front of the Cold War: Soviet Debates on the Origins of Art and the Human

Part of the lecture series, "Overcoming Bipolarity: New Approaches to the Cold War."

Michael Kunichika teaches at Amherst College, where he is professor and chair of Russian. He also serves as the director of the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His publications include his award-winning monograph "Our Native Antiquity": Archaeology and Aesthetics in Russian Modernism (2015). Having recently completed another book Specters of Empire: Race and Revolution in Early Soviet Cinema, he is now at work on a monograph on prehistoric archaeology and the culture of late socialism from which his talk will be drawn.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER), Anthropology Department, Slavic Languages & Literatures

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