SLAV 1400 - PROTEST CULTURE AND ART IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description From mass street protests, public performances, graffiti, and social media posts to paintings, poems, literary works, songs, plays, and films, contemporary cultural producers, activists, journalists, social media personas, and civic-minded individuals have been contributing to the symbolics and the language of protest in post-Soviet countries. This course is dedicated to the study of the post-Soviet protest culture and art that have been developing over the past few decades in the Baltic States, Belarus, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Russia, and Ukraine. In this course, we will contextualize the examples of post-Soviet protest embodied in cultural texts by comparing them to one another and placing them into the broader socio-historical context of cultural resistance and dissident cultural practices before the collapse of the Soviet Union and since the early 1990s through the 2020s.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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