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Join Us for the 2nd Seminar in the Soviet Mass Culture Series, 3 February, 5pm!

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You are warmly invited to an upcoming joint Dept. of Slavonic Studies-CamCREES seminar by Prof. Susan E. Reid entitled:

'Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµmaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s'

to be held on Tuesday, 3 February at 5-6:30pm in the Latimer Room at Clare College

About the author: Susan E. Reid (PhD University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor of Russian Visual Culture and Director of the Centre for Visual Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her published work has covered topics such as Cold War material culture, design and consumption; audience reception and popular taste; Socialist Realist art and gender; and Soviet modernity and modernism. Her current book project explores everyday aesthetics, socialist modernity and consumption in the Khrushchev-era standard apartment. She is Co-Investigator on the collaborative AHRC-funded research project: 'Reinhabiting Park Hill: The Modernist Dream Revisited'.

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