Boris Stepanov and Alexandra Kolesnik participated in the conference of the Italian Association of Public History
IGITI research fellows Boris Stepanov and Alexandra Kolesnik participated in a panel "Shaping Public History in Russia: Forms, Places and Media" at the second conference of the Italian Association of Public History. The conference took place in Pisa, on June 11-15.
The panel "Shaping Public History in Russia: Forms, Places and Media" was dedicated to characteristic aspects of public history forms in Russia, from educational programmes to representations of the past in popular culture. Boris Stepanov delivered a paper "“Be Kind Rewind”: Soviet Space Flights on the Post-Soviet Screen", which demonstated how space exploration is constructed in contemporary Russian cinema. Alexandra Kolesnik in her talk "Tsoi Memorial Sites: Rethinking Soviet History of the 1980s through Musical Past" explained how memorial places devoted to lead singer on a soviet rock group "Kino" Victor Tsoi enable creation of new images of the late soviet past.
See the conference programme and abstracts of the panel's papers.
Date
June 17, 2018
About persons
Alexandra Kolesnik
Junior Research Fellow
Boris Stepanov
Leading Research Fellow