April 9, 2022 with a lecture "An inconvenient past. The memory of state crimes in Russia and other countries" will be addressed by philologist, researcher of historical memory Nikolai Epple.
As international experience shows, attempts to forget tragic, unpleasant and shameful pages of the past divide survivors and their descendants much more strongly than attempts to open and speak this past. Why is this the case and how does it work? How is working through a difficult past related to national reconciliation? And what does Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" have to do with it? Nikolai Epple, the winner of the Enlightener Award, will tell about all this.
The lecture starts at 3 p.m.
Admission is by ticket. The ticket price is 200 rubles (adult), 100 rubles (child).
There is a 50% discount for students on all events of the "Spring of Enlightenment" cycle. You can get it by entering the promo code student when buying online, or by presenting a student ID when buying at the ticket office of the House of Culture.
Age limit: 12+
For reference: Nikolai Epple is a philologist, translator, and researcher of historical memory. Specialist in the history of Western European literature, translator of Clive Staples Lewis and Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Author of the book "An Inconvenient past. Memory of state crimes in Russia and other countries", winner of the Enlightener Award in 2021.
