Talk & Think
Alexei Yurchak
Utopias
Dates & Schedules
Thursday → 6.30pm
Price
free entry (subject to availability) tickets available on the day from 3pm at the ticket-office
Length
2h
Location
Main Auditorium
Additional Info
in english
Sinopsis
Alexei Yurchak is professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, and the author of the book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. In this talk he will examine how everyday behaviours can make large ideological systems collapse. For the Soviet people, the collapse of their state came as a complete surprise, and at the same time, as something natural. That dramatic event exposed a paradox: while most citizens experienced the system as eternal and immutable, they had also been always prepared for its disintegration.
