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Marxist Thought and Soviet Culture in Early Cold War Japan

Marxist Thought and Soviet Culture in Early Cold War Japan

History Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Francis Scott Key Hall, 2120
Please join us for a lunch time conversation on "Marxist Thought and Soviet Culture in Early Cold War Japan" with Dr. Anastasia Fedorova, recipient of a 20th-Century-Japan Research Award on Thursday, March 24thFrancis Scott Key 212012:30 to 1:30 PM Anastasia Fedorova is a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center. She is currently affiliated with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University where she is working on expanding her doctoral thesis into a book manuscript. Her dissertation, “Japan’s Quest for Cinematic Realism from the Perspective of Cultural Dialogue between Japan and Soviet Russia, 1925-1955,” investigates how Japanese and Russian filmmakers, critics, and audiences interacted with each other through the medium of film. Dr. Fedorova’s research interests focus on Japanese film and media, montage theory, cross-cultural exchange and Marxist aesthetics in postwar Japan. Lunch will be served. RSVP to millercenter@umd.edu or 301-405-4299  

 

Add to Calendar 03/24/16 12:30 PM 03/24/16 1:30 PM America/New_York Marxist Thought and Soviet Culture in Early Cold War Japan Please join us for a lunch time conversation on "Marxist Thought and Soviet Culture in Early Cold War Japan" with Dr. Anastasia Fedorova, recipient of a 20th-Century-Japan Research Award on Thursday, March 24thFrancis Scott Key 212012:30 to 1:30 PM Anastasia Fedorova is a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hokkaido University, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center. She is currently affiliated with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University where she is working on expanding her doctoral thesis into a book manuscript. Her dissertation, “Japan’s Quest for Cinematic Realism from the Perspective of Cultural Dialogue between Japan and Soviet Russia, 1925-1955,” investigates how Japanese and Russian filmmakers, critics, and audiences interacted with each other through the medium of film. Dr. Fedorova’s research interests focus on Japanese film and media, montage theory, cross-cultural exchange and Marxist aesthetics in postwar Japan. Lunch will be served. RSVP to millercenter@umd.edu or 301-405-4299  

 

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