Vladimir Ivantsov, a short term scholar in the UNM Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was the featured speaker at a recent International Luncheon. Ivantsov, who was born in 1981, delivered a talk, "Growing Up in Turbulent Times – Russia from the 1980s to the Present."
Photo: Byron Lindsey, professor emeritus, Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Vladimir Ivantsov, a short term scholar from St. Petersburg State University, visit following Ivantsov's presentation at an International Luncheon.
He presented a perspective on the way things changed – and didn’t – following the fall of communism and answered questions from the audience about influences from the Western world, the Russian literary scene, freedom and quality of life.
Ivantsov is an assistant professor at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia and is the author of numerous publications on Russian and Comparative Literature. His monograph Organizational Principles of Space and Time in the Artistic World of Vladimir Makanin was published in 2009.
Ivantsov’s talk was co-sponsored by the International Studies Institute (ISI) and serves as a prequel to this year’s ISI lecture series on “Revolutions of 1989.”
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