Russian Graduate Seminar “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age”, 15 May

The Russian Graduate Seminar will be opened with a lecture “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age” in English by Vladimir Orlov (PhD Student in Musicology, University of Cambridge).

The lecture is devoted to the various attitudes that dominated amongst many eminent representatives of Russian intelligentsia in regards to the subject of death, during the time of the famous Russian Renaissance, the Silver Age. The strong belief in the positive value of nihil approximated different ideological groups of Russian pre-revolutionary artists and philosophers which desired the grandiouse devastation that really happened soon after. The talk is intended for everyone interested in Russia, Russian culture and its dramatical and sublime path.

• WHEN: 15 May, Tuesday, 5:15 pm
• WHERE: Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Graduate Suite, Raised Faculty Building, [Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA] top floor