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Literary Life in Totalitarian Society: Russia, Then and Now (a 2014 lecture series)
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Russian literary scholars Ivan Akhmetev and Tatiana Neshumova gave a series of free lectures on the University of Oregon campus in October of 2014 covering themes in Russian literature, including government suppression of literature in the Soviet Union, the life and works of influential Russian poets and the effects of a totalitarian society on literature. Julia Nemirovskaya, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Heghine Hakobyan, Slavic Librarian, UO Libraries organized the event, with assistance from Chasmodai Cassidy.
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-10)Ivan Akhmetev and Tatiana Neshumova gave a joint presentation on October 10, followed by a poetry reading, and a question and answer session to close out the lecture series.
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-08)Literary critic and poet Tatiana Neshumova, who has devoted much of her research to Russian Silver Age literature, discusses the life and works of Russian writers V.G. Malakhieva-Mirovich, Dimitry Usov, and Evgenii Arkhippov.
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10)
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-03)Akhmetev explores the phenomenon of "deep underground" authors whose work was suppressed by the government because of the nontraditional nature of the form and ideas of their poetry.