Cultural and Political History in Munich and Regensburg

Ivan Sablin, Research Fellow at the Centre for Historical Research and the head of research-study group "Applied GIS in Humanities" (HSE in Saint Petersburg) presented reports dedicated to cultural and political history of North Eurasia in Munich and Regensburg.

Ivan Sablin presented the report in German on ‘Asia in Soviet classical music: from orientalism to transculturalism’ during the colloquium ‘Hochkultur in der Sowjetunion und in ihren Nachfolgestaaten im 20. Jahrhundert in kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive’, which took place on May 7-9 in Munich.

The report is part of a joint project on Asia in Russian and Soviet classical music with Alexander Volkov, third-year student of the bachelor’s programme in History and Daria Dobatkina, graduate of Prokofiev Moscow Regional Music College.

Ivan Sablin also presented the report ‘Printing Modernities: Book Culture in Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Siberia’ dedicated to the history of literature of indigenous Siberian peoples in the global context during the Second Annual Conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies: Cultural Hegemonies in Spaces of Diversity.