Seminar "Between Censorship and Dissidence in USSR"

School of Humanities invites you to the seminar ""Between Censorship and Dissidence in USSR" on Friday, 17 February. 

The list of speakers includes Rosario Napolitano, a researcher from the University of Naples "L'Orientale", Professor Daniele Monticelli, and Miriam Rossi, a PhD student of the School of Humanities. 

During Soviet times dissidence and censorship played a relevant and opposite role in the social and cultural life of Russia and other socialist republics. From the perspective of Translation and Censorship Studies, these phenomena represent a fruitful field of investigation, which is far from begin completely defined. 

The seminar presents a case studies of both themes: from one hand the activity of Glavlit (the main censorship body of USSR) in the Baltic states, from Daniel and Sinyavsky's trial; on the other hand, the dissidence developed in the underground of Leningrad. The frame of the seminar will be the methodological approach presented by Daniele Monticelli. 

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