How to Teach Contemporary Russian Culture?

Harvard FAS

Our seminar will focus on a single question: how, after February 24, 2022, to teach undergraduates about Russian culture and about the issues it surfaces, including authoritarianism and freedom, exile and diaspora, public rhetoric and hidden resistance? We will develop conceptual frameworks for several kinds of undergraduate courses: first-year seminars; general education courses which might be comparative; introductory Slavic department courses: and Slavic department courses for advanced…