Photo credit: Russky LondonYuri Saprykin will present a series of lectures this week at MIIS focusing on modern Russian youth culture, as part of the Visiting Experts program of the Graduate Initiative of Russian Studies. The first of these lectures, titled, “Emerging from the Underground: Counter-Culture After the Fall of the USSR,” will take place on Monday, November 7, from 12:15pm – 1:50om in the VC room at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS); the second, titled, “Craving Justice: Post-Imperial Injuries in 90s Youth Culture,” will take place on Tuesday, November 8, from 10:00am – 11:50am in MG-100; and the third, titled, “Despair Against Hope: What’s Happening with Russian Youth in 2016,” will take place on Thursday, November 10, from 10:00am-11:50am in the VC room at CNS. The following week, Mr. Saprykin will give the final lecture of his series, titled, “Protest vs. Patriotism: Youth Culture in Putin’s Russia,” on Monday, November 14, from 12:15PM – 1:50PM, in the VC room at CNS. All four of these lectures will be given in Russian.
Mr. Saprykin is a graduate of MGU’s Department of Philosophy. In the 2000s he was editor in chief of the journal Afisha, a publication largely responsible for forming the tastes and values of the new educated urban class, the generation of “Russian Europeans.” Mr. Saprykin took part in the relaunch of analytical website Slon.ru and Russia’s oldest English-language publication, The Moscow Times. He is the author of Observation Points (2015) and courses on urban and youth culture for Russia’s leading educational institutions and online resources.
Yuri Saprykin is the eighth of ten lecturers who will visit the MIIS campus this semester through the GIRS program.
