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