This open seminar will focus at the act of remembering the dead as one of the main rituals that creates social cohesion in the rural community. The Dashkova Centre Open Seminar Time Thursday, 27th November, 5:10pm Venue The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre Image The modern practice of remembering will be discussed as a duty of the living to perform for their deceased relatives, and the memorial communication with the ancestors as one of the ways that living people express their relatedness to each other. Svetlana Adonieva is a Folklorist and Anthropologist, Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature of Saint Petersburg State University and a Visiting Fellow in the Russian Section (DELC) in the University of Edinburgh. This article was published on 2024-08-13
