From our colleagues at CREECA:
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 4:00-5:15 pm
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
“Russian Independent Media Archive Project,” a presentation by Anna Nemzer and Ilia Venyavkin
About the Lecture: In this joint presentation, journalist Anna Nemzer and historian Ilia Venyavkin will discuss the work of the Russian Independent Media Archive — an initiative of PEN America and Bard College aimed at preserving the work of independent journalists from Russia since 2000, guarding this historical record against erasure as media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors are cast into exile. A direct link to RIMA is available at https://rima.media/en
About the Speakers: Anna Nemzer is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker studying the historical memory of wars in the post-Soviet space. She is a presenter on TV Dozhd (aka TV-Rain – formerly the only independent TV channel in Russia, now working in exile), a scholar at Bard College in, and a co-founder of the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA) dedicated to the preservation of all Russian independent media as the most important evidence of the era. Ilia Veniavkin is an historian and journalist. For 15 years he has been studying Stalinist culture and subjectivity. He wrote an ebook, Master’s Inkwell. A Soviet Writer Inside the Great Purge and co-founded Prozhito.org, a collaborative online archive of Soviet diaries and ego-documents. He is a co-founder of the Russian Independent Media Archive, a scholar at Bard College, and is writing a book on the ideology of Putinism.
This event is part of the CREECA lecture series, which is held on Thursdays at 4:00 pm. Coffee, tea, and cookies served starting at 3:45.
*Please note that UW-Madison will be on Spring Recess from March 23-31. There will not be a CREECA talk on March 28. We’ll be back on April 4 for a presentation by Ostap Kin on his book, Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond.*