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This lecture-performance is dedicated to revealing the "behind the scenes" political struggle for creativity and cultural expression in the context of wartime Russia. It draws upon a variety of less visible protest and dissent actions caused by the new wave of censorship and extreme police brutality. The performance is based on a collection of interviews Margarita Kuleva conducted with Russian cultural workers since the beginning of the war, and based on self-ethnography.
The performance is approximately 1 hour long and will be followed by a discussion with the artist, Margarita Kuleva.Â
Refreshments will be served at a reception to follow.Â
 Presented by the New University in Exile Consortium and the School of Drama.
New School students seeking accommodations should contact the Student Disability Services office at studentdisability@newschool.edu.
Margarita Kuleva is a sociologist of culture, artist, and curator. She is based in New York. In 2022-2023, she was a postdoc at New York University Jordan Center. Additionally, she collaborates with TAEX, a London based platform for digital art as a senior curator. Margarita is interested in exploring social inequalities in artistic production and boundaries in access to culture. In particular, her PhD was devoted to the ‘behind the scenes’ of cultural institutions to give greater visibility to the invisible workers of culture. In her performance practice, she explores the opportunities of various urban sites such as public swimming pools or beauty salons to design more horizontal and inclusive forms of public education.
The Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the United States, Bangladesh, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each institutional member is committed to hosting at least one threatened scholar every year and these exiled hosted scholars constitute our scholar cohort. We work with them individually and together to try and lessen the profound sense of dislocation that exiled scholars suffer and which adversely impacts their intellectual and personal lives. Since 2021, the Consortium has expanded its mission to include finding placements for threatened Afghan and Ukrainian academics, students, and artists at Consortium member institutions.
Established in September 2018, the Consortium follows in the tradition of The New School’s original University in Exile created by The New School’s first President, Alvin Johnson, in 1933. The first University in Exile became the home of rescued, largely Jewish endangered scholars from Germany and France. Today, members of the New University in Exile Consortium are hosting nearly 300 exiled scholars from 30 countries.
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