Introducing the First Keynote Speaker of Y-Conference: SPACES

Catriona Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Soviet Culture at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Her publications include over 200 books, articles, and book chapters on the social and cultural history of the Russian Empire and the USSR. Her most recent book is Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio under Brezhnev (Oxford University Press, 2021), and she is currently working on Film Factory of Nations: Historical Film in the USSR, 1956-1991, based on archival work in eleven of the USSR’s union republics, including Armenia.

On the first day of the conference, May 22, 10:00 at ibis Hotel (5/1 Northern Ave, Yerevan), she will deliver her keynote speech, “Socialist, National, Local: Late Soviet Spaces,” moderated by Simon Franklin.

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