Alexander Bikbov / Александр Бикбов

The eclectic year left behind a smoke of war fires, invigorating contingencies and unfulfilled premonitions. Project Europe keeps revealing its hidden steampunk potential. Is this a hint of a plateau or an assumption of an increasingly steeper slope?

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Everyday Life, Planned Consumption and Leisure in the Late Soviet Union

hosted by Alexander Bikbov, DAAD visiting professor at Lotman Institute RUB.

The seminar features leading historians of the late Soviet period to present in distance sessions their groundbreaking research and personal testimony of the phenomena of Soviet population management, production and consumption, urban life and collective sensibilities.

View the programme and subscribe to participate

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Четыре события в России, Германии, Италии и Франции сложились 19 января в неожиданный антифашистский контрапункт. Какая проблема могла объединить эти общества в текущих условиях?

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Three courses that I am giving at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the fall 2023 / 2024. The courses are held in English, in face-to-face sessions.
– Protests in Eastern and Western Europe since 2010
– Everyday life, consumption culture and planned leisure in the late Soviet Union
– Draw me your society: visual research of social imagination

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Related posts / Также смотрите: Paris, esprit de Noël … Light night COVID-lockdown pleasures Speed, long distances, new places vanish from the lockdown life… Paris-COVID, Ghost City? One week after the announced stay-at-home measures, Paris downtown in… A Study of signs of presence The COVID-19 epidemic emptied city places, tinned public sites and… Париж, столица […]

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Candid street and window shots

View the entire post / Читать полностью »

Какой непредвиденный политический смысл приобетает упаковка Триумфальной арки в Париже по проекту художников Христо Явашева и Жанн-Клод Ден де Гийебон?

View the entire post / Читать полностью »