Socialist Bodies: Dreams and Realities of the Physical in Soviet Russia (HI3J7): Timetable
Term |
Week |
Seminar Topic |
| Autumn Term |
1 |
Revolutionary Understandings of the Physical |
| 2 |
Machine Men and the New Biology |
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| 3 |
The New Soviet Woman |
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| 4 |
Disease and Deviance |
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| 5 |
Sensory Regimes of Socialism |
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| 6 |
Reading Week (no seminar) |
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| 7 |
Acculturating the Soviet Body |
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| 8 |
Bodies of the Five-Year Plan |
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| 9 |
Stalinist Fantasies of Embodiment |
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| 10 |
Nikolai Ostrovskii and the Crippled Hero |
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|
Christmas Vacation |
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| Spring Term |
1 |
Violence and the Body Politic |
| 2 |
Bodies as Weapons in WWII |
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| 3 |
Marks of Trauma |
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| 4 |
Leisure and Pleasure in Late Socialism |
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| 5 |
Technological Utopias of the Body |
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| 6 |
Reading Week (no seminar) |
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| 7 |
Dystopias of the Body |
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| 8 |
Afghanistan in the Popular Imagination |
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| 9 |
Ageing Soviet Bodies |
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| 10 |
Reclaiming the Body |
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|
Easter Vacation |
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| Summer Term |
1 |
Revision, long essay/dissertation meetings |
| 2 |
Revision, long essay/dissertation meetings |
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