Recordings of Londongrad and Londongradians: Identities, Imaginaries, and Cultural Practices of Russians in the UK

Recordings of sessions from the Londongrad workshop, organised within the AHRC-funded, Edinburgh University based project ‘Global Russians: Transnational Russophone Networks in the UK’.

Roundtable

UK cultural institutions & creative professions in 'Londongrad' (Roman Borisovich, Alexander Kan, Anna Edovina, Pavel Iosad, and Karina Karmenian)

Keynote

Alexander Kan (BBC Russian Service). ‘Russian Cultural Presence in London: a Snowballing Effect’

Session 2

Anna Pechurina (Leeds Beckett University). ‘Here nobody knows my name’: Home and Belonging among Russian-speaking migrants in the UK

Adrian Wanner (Pennsylvania State University). ‘Know Your Own:’ Michael Idov’s Londongrad and the Russian Culture Industry

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Edinburgh University). Londongrad as a Linguistic Imaginary: Russian migrants in the UK in the work of Mikhail Idov and Andrei Ostalsky

Session 3

Viktoria Merzliakova (Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow). Londongrad and Londongradians: a Russian media perspective

Stephen Hutchings (Manchester University). Recent Televisual Representations of Russians in London: A Home from Home?

Vlad Strukov (Leeds University). London(grad) as a Global Stage: Hypervisibility as a Soft Power Tool

Session 4

Yulia Savikovskaia (Oxford University). Contemporary Russian migration to Great Britain as a theme for modern drama: Visions of home and abroad in a play ‘Tate Modern’ (Avtorsky Theatre, St Petersburg)

Keynote

Roman Borisovich (‘Boris’ in the documentary ‘From Russia with Cash’). ‘Russian anticorruption campaign in the UK and its representations’: A Discussion.

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