Events / Clemena Antonova

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922	Mon, 27.10.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov	Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Mon, 27.10.2025 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium demonstrated that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
Tsargrad Into Leningrad: Constantinople in the Early Bolshevik Imagination, 1917-1922 Mon, 27.10.2025 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows' Colloquium demonstrated that, Russian imperial collapse notwithstanding, Constantinople’s allure was still strong enough in Bolshevik Moscow to generate outstanding literary works, artistic production, and geopolitical fantasizing. Russian political imagination during Istanbul’s short ‘Russian moment’ reflected a real multi-sided geopolitical rivalry over Constantinople. Read more
	Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity	Mon, 20.10.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Inna Berezkina	Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity Mon, 20.10.2025 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Inna Berezkina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Inna Berezkina explored how societies reckon with unaddressed violence in the absence of formal judgment. Berezkina proposes reframing accountability as a historical force that can foster social repair and resilience even without democratic transition. Read more
Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity Mon, 20.10.2025 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Igor Torbakov Inna Berezkina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Inna Berezkina explored how societies reckon with unaddressed violence in the absence of formal judgment. Berezkina proposes reframing accountability as a historical force that can foster social repair and resilience even without democratic transition. Read more
	Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia?	Thu, 16.10.2025	Lecture	Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova	Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia? Thu, 16.10.2025 Speakers: Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture In their new book, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation, investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov tell the gripping story of a group of young reporters, who came of age in the years leading to the rise of Putin. The book is about the choices that that their friends and colleagues in Moscow ended up making––to resist or to compromise, to go into exile or to stay––and the cost that these decisions entailed. Read more
Our Dear Friends in Moscow or What Happened to Moscow’s Public Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia? Thu, 16.10.2025 Speakers: Andrei Soldatov Clemena Antonova Irina BoroganVikram Rajan, Mirjana Tomic Petrovic, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture In their new book, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation, investigative journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov tell the gripping story of a group of young reporters, who came of age in the years leading to the rise of Putin. The book is about the choices that that their friends and colleagues in Moscow ended up making––to resist or to compromise, to go into exile or to stay––and the cost that these decisions entailed. Read more
	Some Thoughts on Religious Nationalism	Mon, 16.06.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Assaf Sharon Clemena Antonova	Some Thoughts on Religious Nationalism Mon, 16.06.2025 Speakers: Assaf Sharon Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Assaf Sharon explored the rise of religious nationalism as a dominant political force in many countries around the globe. Often regarded as a front for xenophobia, racism, or economic anxiety, it has deep intellectual roots and a distinct approach to political authority, state sovereignty, and social morality. Taking it seriously is indispensable for understanding the phenomenon and the challenge it poses for liberal societies. Read more
Some Thoughts on Religious Nationalism Mon, 16.06.2025 Speakers: Assaf Sharon Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Assaf Sharon explored the rise of religious nationalism as a dominant political force in many countries around the globe. Often regarded as a front for xenophobia, racism, or economic anxiety, it has deep intellectual roots and a distinct approach to political authority, state sovereignty, and social morality. Taking it seriously is indispensable for understanding the phenomenon and the challenge it poses for liberal societies. Read more
	Routine Brutality: How Russia Normalized War	Mon, 24.06.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Maxim TrudolyubovKirill Rogov	Routine Brutality: How Russia Normalized War Mon, 24.06.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Maxim TrudolyubovKirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia Most of those who are now creating hell on earth in Ukraine and sending Russians to their deaths do not possess any form of satanic greatness. They see themselves as dutiful professionals, resourceful entrepreneurs, or people of culture distanced from “politics.” Read more
Routine Brutality: How Russia Normalized War Mon, 24.06.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Maxim TrudolyubovKirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia Most of those who are now creating hell on earth in Ukraine and sending Russians to their deaths do not possess any form of satanic greatness. They see themselves as dutiful professionals, resourceful entrepreneurs, or people of culture distanced from “politics.” Read more
	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect	Mon, 22.01.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discussed the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looked at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzed an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discussed the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looked at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzed an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk?	Mon, 13.11.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena AntonovaAndrei Zakharov, Kirill Rogov	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Mon, 13.11.2023 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaAndrei Zakharov, Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Mon, 13.11.2023 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaAndrei Zakharov, Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
	Berdyaev and the Russian Idea	Mon, 09.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova George Pattison	Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium was, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium was, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
	Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin	Wed, 26.04.2023	Lecture	Clemena Antonova Mischa GabowitschTatyana Gershkovich, Ivan Foletti	Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin Wed, 26.04.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Mischa GabowitschTatyana Gershkovich, Ivan Foletti Series: Lecture This event is part of the series “Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin,” which started in January 2023. The first two speakers, Ivan Foletti and Mischa Gabowitsch, addressed the topic through the perspective of “visual thought". In the ensuing lecture, Tatyana Gershkovich presented her findings regarding the question of what Tolstoy meant during the Russian revolution and today. Read more
Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin Wed, 26.04.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Mischa GabowitschTatyana Gershkovich, Ivan Foletti Series: Lecture This event is part of the series “Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin,” which started in January 2023. The first two speakers, Ivan Foletti and Mischa Gabowitsch, addressed the topic through the perspective of “visual thought". In the ensuing lecture, Tatyana Gershkovich presented her findings regarding the question of what Tolstoy meant during the Russian revolution and today. Read more
	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It	Mon, 30.01.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena AntonovaPeter Ruzavin, Kirill Rogov	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaPeter Ruzavin, Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more
Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaPeter Ruzavin, Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more