ARRN Podcast 3: Emily Lygo on the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR

The third ARRN podcast is now available for streaming or download. Click below to hear Emily Lygo introduce text relating to the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR. If you would like to be sent these texts by email, please contact Matthew Taunton or Rebecca Beasley.

Emily Lygo on the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, 7 June, Pushkin House

Anglo-Russian Research Network Reading Group, 7 June, 5-7pm, Pushkin House

At our next reading group, we are delighted to welcome Dr Emily Lygo, Lecturer in Russian at the University of Exeter.  Emily will be introducing texts relating to her research on the history of The Society For Cultural Relations Between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth with the USSR. The reading materials are as follows:

1. An article by Emily Lygo, 'Promoting Soviet Culture in Britain: the History of the Society for Cultural Relations Between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the USSR, 1924–45', Modern Language Review Vol. 108 No. 2 (April, 2013)

2. Preface and argument to the book The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre by Huntly Carter, 1929

3. A 1946 edition of the Anglo-Soviet Journal, available online here.

If you would like to attend, please contact Matt Taunton or Becky Beasley and we will send you the reading materials in pdf format.

ARRN Podcast 2: Michael Hughes on Stephen Graham

Our second podcast is now available for download or streaming. Here, Professor Michael Hughes discusses the British travel writer and novelist Stephen Graham at an Anglo-Russian Research Network reading group in Spring 2013. 

Please contact Matthew Taunton or Rebecca Beasley if you would like to be sent copies of the reading materials. 

ARRN Podcast 1: Angus Wrenn and Olga Soboleva on George Bernard Shaw

We are pleased to bring you the first Anglo-Russian Research Network podcast. Here Angus Wrenn and Olga Soboleva discuss readings relating to George Bernard Shaw and the Russian Revolution. Please contact Matt Taunton or Becky Beasley if you would like us to send you the readings associated with this discussion. We will be making future presentations from our termly reading groups available in this format so please check back.

Michael Hughes on Stephen Graham and Russia, Pushkin House, Friday 15th February 5-7pm

We are delighted to welcome Professor Michael Hughes (Professor of Russian and International History at the University of Liverpool) to our next reading group. Michael will be introducing texts by the British travel writer and novelist Stephen Graham, and a chapter that he has recently authored on Graham in A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture, ed by Anthony Cross and available online (and for free!) here. 

Michael also maintains an excellent website about Graham, here.

The reading group will take place at Pushkin House on Friday 15th February from 5-7pm. Please contact the organizers Matt Taunton and Rebecca Beasley if you would like to attend, and we will send you the reading material in advance of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there.

George Bernard Shaw and Russia: Wednesday 28th November

The next in our series of reading groups will be on George Bernard Shaw and Russia. We are delighted to welcome Dr Olga Sobolev and Dr Angus Wrenn (both of the LSE), authors of The Only Hope of the World: George Bernard Shaw and Russia (Peter Lang, 2012), for a discussion about Shaw and the Soviet Union.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday 28th November from 5.30pm at Pushkin House. We will be circulating reading material closer to the time, and will post details of this reading soon, but in the meantime if you would like to attend please contact Matt Taunton or Rebecca Beasley.

Soviet Cinema and British Modernism - Reading Group, 24th February

The second meeting of the Anglo-Russian Research Network will be a reading group on Soviet cinema and British modernism led by Laura Marcus (Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature, New College, Oxford). The reading group - an informal, termly event that aims to bring together scholars and postgraduates with an interest in the cultural relationships between Russia and Britain in the period 1880-1950 - will be held in the Library at Pushkin House on Friday 24th February 2012 from 5.30-7.30pm. We will be looking at a selection from Bryher's Film Problems of Soviet Russia, which will be will be circulated by email in advance. Please contact Matthew Taunton and/or Rebecca Beasley if you would like to attend. All are welcome.