Events

Yana Meerzon, Mikhail Kaluzhsky. "Performing Censorship: The Russian Case"

26 March 2026 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Media Rare: The Legacy of Sam/Tamizdat and the Future of Independent Russophone Publishing

20 November 2025 19:30 EDT

George Washington University

Tadeusz Dąbrowski. "The Scent of Man"

3 November 2025 19:00 EDT

Hunter College CUNY

Пхенц-фест! 100 лет Андрею Синявскому

30 October 2025 19:00 Berlin

Babel Books Berlin

Krystyna Wieszczek. "Orwell on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain: The Story of Poland"

9 October 2025 19:00 EDT

Hunter College CUNY

Narine Abgaryan. "To Go on Living," with the author and translator

23 April 2025 18:30

Hunter College CUNY

"Modernist and Experimental Literature from Kharkiv in Translation"

21 April 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

"Pkhentz." Book Launch and Reading / Yerevan, Armenia

14 April 2025 19:00

Common Ground, Yerevan, Armenia

Semyon Khanin. A reading and discussion on poetry, urban art, and publishing

31 March 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Martin Nekola. "Cold War Czechoslovakia and Exiles in the U.S"

27 March 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Victoria Lomasko. "The Last Soviet Artist," followed by a screening of "The Tree of Violence"

17 March 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

"Queendom" by Agniia Galdanova. A Film Screening and Discussion.

6 March 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Benjamin Nathans. "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause"

27 February 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

"Letters of Freedom" to Political Prisoners

19 February 2025 19:00

Hunter College, NY

"Pkhentz." Book Launch and Reading by Ainsley Morse, Eugene Ostashevsky / New York

6 February 2025 18:30

Hunter College, NY

The Stranniki in New York! A Concert by Psoy Korolenko and Polina Shepherd

29 January 2025 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Inna Krasnoper. "Notation Speaker". A Talk and Poetry Reading

25 November 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

"Pkhentz." Book Launch and Reading by Ainsley Morse, Eugene Ostashevsky / Boston

23 November 2024 18:30

Boston, MA

A reading and conversation with Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale

15 November 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Яков Клоц. "Назад в будущее: тамиздат в эпоху (холодной) войны"

3 November 2024 18:00

La Bibliothèque Russe Tourguenev, Paris, France

Dinara Rasuleva & Tatsiana Zamirovskaya. "Lost Tongues, Found Voices, Decolonizing Languages"

2 October 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Yasha Klots, Tomas Venclova. "Tamizdat: Banned Books of the (Cold) War Era"

28 June 2024 18:00

Venclovų namai-muziejuss, Vilnius, Lithuania

Victor Martinovich. "Why Did Pythia Foretell the Future in the Temple of Apollo?"

30 May 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Anna Nemzer, Ilia Veniavkin. "Putin's Playbook: Understanding Russian Politics through the Media Archive"

3 April 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Roman Utkin. "Charlottengrad: Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin"

27 March 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Maria Galina. ​"Communiqués" by Ainsley Morse and Anna Halberstadt

13 March 2024 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" by Sasha Denisova, with director Yury Urnov

22 February 2024 18:30

Hunter College, NY

"Удивительные приключения контрабандной русской литературы за границей: тамиздат вчера и сегодня"

18 January 2024 13:00

Babel Books, Berlin, Germany

Vladimir Paperny. "War and Exhibitions"

20 November 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

"The Dmitriev Affair" (2023). Film screening and Q&A with the director

15 November 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

"Hey! Teachers!" (2020). Film Screening and Q&A with the director

2 November 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Elena Kostyuchenko. "I Love Russia. Reporting from a Lost Country"

30 October 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Oksana Vasyakina's "Wound". Translation reading and Q&A with Elina Alter

16 October 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Tomas Venclova. Poetry reading and Q&A

10 October 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Aleksandra Kamińska. "Queer Publishing as Protest: DIY Culture in Today's Poland"

5 October 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Anna Starobinets and Katherine E. Young. "Look at Him"

18 September 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Yasha Klots. "Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War" with Mark Lipovetsky

15 June 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Ilya Venyavkin. "Alexander Dugin: The Man Who Wages an 'Apocalyptic War' against Ukraine"

10 May 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Eugene Ostashevsky, Timmy Straw, Venya Gushchin, Elina Alter. Poetry Reading

9 May 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Find a Jew" (2022), with director Anna Narinskaya

20 April 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

(Non)conformist Baltic Poetic Documentary of the 1960s

19 April 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Rock. Paper. Scissors." (2023), a screening with direcotr Anna Narinskaya

18 April 2023 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Zara Torlone. "Mock Aeneids in Russian and Ukrainian and their Discontents"

20 March 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Ukraine's Musical Influence. A Panel Discussion in Honor of Borys Liatoshynsky

16 March 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Marina Temkina. "Poems and Experiences—Immigrant, Gender, and Russian-Jewish"

13 March 2023 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Alexander Genis, Yasha Klots. "The Third Wave: Immigrants from the Soviet Union in New York (1970-1980s)"

9 March 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Eugene Ostashevsky. "The Feeling Sonnets"

23 February 2023 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Irina Mashinski. "The Naked World and Giornata"

1 December 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Report from Kyiv: Photos from Russian War in Ukraine" by Olena Shovkoplias

17 November 2022 19:00

Hunter College, NY

"Practical Tips for a Successful Career as a Language Provider", with Translingua Associates

10 November 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Volodymyr Rafeyenko. "Mondegreen: Songs about Love and Death"

1 November 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Nikolay MItrokhin. "A Social History of the Soviet Apparatchiks (1953–1985)"

24 October 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Living Pictures". A poetry reading and book talk by Polina Barskova

23 September 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Shakespeare: Homecoming", curated by Vasily Lvov, with the participation of Claudia Serea

22 September 2022 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Edwin Frank. "Contraband Literature from the USSR at the New York Review of Books"

9 May 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"The Cherry Orchard" (2022) by Dmitry Krymov, with Gregory Mosher, Yasha Klots

2 May 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Serhiy Zhadan. "A New Orthography"

29 April 2022 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Maria Stepanova, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich. Poetry Reading

28 April 2022 19:30

Hunter College, NY

"The Long Breakup" (2020), with the director Katya Soldak

5 April 2022 19:30

Hunter College, NY

"Two Years in the Making: Student and Faculty Projects from the Pandemic"

3 March 2022 19:30

Hunter College, NY

Leona Toker. "Concentration-Camp Literature: Gulag and Nazi Camps as Contexts for Each Other"

2 December 2021 13:00

Online

Tamizdat Project Lab. "Alexander Galich: From Magnitizdat to Tamizdat"

21 October 2021 13:00

Online

"Belarus, Striking: Voices from the Belarusian Uprising." Moderated by Valzhyna Mort

16 September 2021 13:00

Online

Tamizdat Project Lab. Joseph Brodsky Abroad before Emigration

26 May 2020 11:00

Online

Vadim Bass. "Designs of Soviet War Monuments (1941-1945)"

5 March 2020 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Pavel Chepyzhov. "Georgian Book Design in the 1920-1930s"

3 March 2020 17:30

Chanin Language Center

UKRAINIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

28 February 2020 18:00

Hunter College, The Ukrainian Museum

Tamizdat Project Lab 3. The Fiction of Yuli Daniel

20 February 2020 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Lev Rubinstein. Poetry reading

6 February 2020 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Van Goghs" (Russia, 2018). A film screening with the director Sergey Livnev

10 December 2019 17:00

Hunter College, NY

Evgeny Steiner. "Ivan Bodhidharma: The Image of Japan in the Late Soviet Mind and Beyond"

5 December 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Katia Margolis. "Venice Unread"

3 December 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Mark Lipovetsky. "Cynicism and Freedom: a Paradox of the Soviet Trickster"

5 November 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Tamizdat Project Lab - 2: Lydia Chukovskaia. "Sofia Petrovna"

29 October 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Yuz Aleshkovsky. "Nikolai Nikolaevich," with Duffield White

16 October 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Katja Petrowskaja. "Maybe Esther"

11 October 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Tamizdat Project Lab - 1: Anna Akhmatova. Requiem (1963)

3 October 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

"Redemption" by Aleksandr Proshkin, introduced by Prof. Emil Draitser

27 September 2019 18:30

Hunter College, NY

A screening of "Anna Karenina", introduced by Eddie Aronoff

24 September 2019 17:00

Hunter College, NY

"Notes from the Zone of Kaif: The Life and Work of Azazello"

12 September 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Tomas Venclova. "The Holocaust and Lithuania Today"

4 September 2019 19:00

Hunter College, NY

Štěpán Černoušek. "A Journey to the Gulag". Film screening, virtual reality experience

14 May 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Crystal Swan" (2018), with director Darya Zhuk and scriptwriter Helga Landauer

2 May 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Lev Ozerov. "Portraits without Frames", with Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Maria Bloshteyn

15 April 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Vladimir Kozlov. "Perestroika Punks", followed by "Traces on the Snow" (2014)

12 April 2019 16:00

Hunter College, NY

Psoy Korolenko, Anna Shternshis. "Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II"

9 April 2019 18:30

Hunter College, NY

Zara Torlone. "Joy of Exile: Ovid in the Poetry of Pushkin, Mandelshtam, and Brodsky"

26 March 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

"Your Language My Ear." Bilingual Poetry Reading

20 March 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Dmitry Kuzmin. "Reframing Russian Poetry in the 1990s"

12 March 2019 18:00

Hunter College, NY

Stanislav Lvovsky. "Poems from the Book and Other Poems"

26 February 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Alexei Nikitin. "Ukrainian Literature in Russian: A New Phenomenon that Causes Debates"

20 February 2019 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Dmitry Bykov. "Lolita, Quiet Flows the Don, and Doctor Zhivago: The Metaplot of a Revolutionary Novel"

7 February 2019 16:00

Hunter College, NY

Eighth Annual Diaspora. Israeli-Russian Film Festival

3 February 2019 14:00

RACC, NY

Pavel Arseniev. "Reported Speech"

29 November 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Ruta Vanagaite. "The Murder and the Silence: Uncovering Lithuania’s Holocaust Collaboration"

26 November 2018 19:00

Hunter College, NY

The “Baltic Transit” in Russian Literature

18 October 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Semyon Khanin & the Orbita Poetry Group

9 October 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

"Varlam Shalamov: Several of My Lives" (1990), with directors

25 September 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Eugene Ostashevsky. Conversation on Translingualism in Russian and American Poetry

12 September 2018 19:30

Hunter College, NY

Elena Kostyuchenko. "Russia’s Invisible Communities in Investigative Journalism"

15 May 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Moving Lyrics 2018: International Student Festival of Short Films

7 May 2018 17:30

"Leo Tolstoy and Dziga Vertov: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Era" (2015)

30 April 2018 17:30

"The Ambassador's Daughter, Emlen Knight Davies: a Photographic Journey, Moscow, 1937-1938"

20 March 2018 17:30

Polina Barskova, Ilya Bernshteyn & Matvei Yankelevich. "Don't Look There!"

15 March 2018 16:30

Hunter College, NY

Linor Goralik. "Found Life. Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play and an Interview"

20 February 2018 18:00

Hunter College, NY

"Holocaust: A Wallpaper Glue?" (Russia, 2013), a documentary by Mumin Shakirov

15 February 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Misha Melnichenko. "Personal Diaries in the Digital Era"

1 February 2018 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Narine Abgaryan. A Reading and Book Talk

12 October 2017 18:00

Tomas Venclova. Poetry Reading and Q&A (in Lithuanian and Russian with English Translations)

5 October 2017 17:30

Hunter College, NY

Poetry of the Moscow Lianozovo Group: Vsevolod Nekrasov & Igor’ Kholin

5 September 2017 18:00 UTC

Hunter College, NY