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CREECA Lecture Series

"Performing the City, Performing the Nation: Mythmaking at Putin’s Olympiad" by Catherine Schuler, associate professor of women's studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Event Details

Date
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Time
4 p.m.
Location
Description
Dr. Schuler’s presentation considers the whole of Sochi 2014—the city and the Games—as a Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. From the Sochi Bid Book through material renovation of Greater Sochi to the spectacular Opening and Closing Ceremonies, this enormous, myth-making enterprise aimed to immerse spectators in sensuous visual and aural experience in order to persuade them of the Russian resurrection.
Cost
Free and open to the public

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