University of Pennsylvania Department of Russian and East European Studies

03/25/2025

03/21/2025

03/20/2025

Reminder: April 8

This talk analyzes fiercely political filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio through the lens of antifascism and unorthodox communist politics. Matsumoto Toshio was an avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the q***r, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), a series of "neo-documentary" films fr...

02/28/2025

There's no settling of this debate for Russian-speaking audience. But non-Russian-speakers have no problem loving both authors. Why do you think that is?

02/24/2025

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he Russian and East European Studies department at Penn is a tight-knit community dedicated to advancing knowledge of a vast and unique region of the world. Our faculty’s interests and expertise span many centuries, countries, languages, and disciplines.

02/24/2025

Save the date! April 8:

This talk analyzes fiercely political filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio through the lens of antifascism and unorthodox communist politics. Matsumoto Toshio was an avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the q***r, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), a series of "neo-documentary" films fr...