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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong; credit Michael Lionstar

Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Karen Armstrong - Sacred Nature

Religious affairs commentator Karen Armstrong examines the ways in which we can relate to the natural world at a deeper level by adopting attitudes that were assiduously cultivated in the religious traditions of China, India, Greece and Islam.
Professor Evgeny Dobrenko

Evgeny Dobrenko wins AATSEEL award

Professor Evgeny Dobrenko receives the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Akala

Race, class, and imperialism – Akala

Akala took a historical look at the development of racism and race science in the context of class development and European Imperialism for this lecture (Friday 18 October 2019) at the Prokhorov Centre. The event was attended by 400 people.
Red Square

Evgeny Dobrenko delivers lecture series on Soviet wartime culture in Japan

Prokhorov Centre member Evgeny Dobrenko gave a series of lectures at the Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan on Soviet wartime culture.
Chris Mullin

Catch up: The Friends of Harry Perkins – Chris Mullin (with Off the Shelf)

Chris Mullin gave a talk on his recent novel The Friends of Harry Perkins (Wednesday 23 October 2019).
Grand hotels and spas: Marienbad, Czech Republic

New publication on Central and Eastern European grand hotels and spas

Prokhorov Centre member Seán Williams has published a collection of essays on Central European grand hotels and spas and their representations in cultural critique since 1900 (Forum for Modern Language Studies 55.4, 2019).
Prokhorov lecture: Alister McGrath

Alister McGrath discusses Albert Einstein's far-reaching ideas about the relation of science, religion, and ethics

To mark the centenary of the confirmation of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity in 1919, Alister McGrath (Oxford) explored Einstein's far-reaching ideas about the relation of science, religion, and ethics.
A map depicting Europe with a rotated orientation, captioned "Europe from Moscow".

New book on Eurasianism

Former Prokhorov Fellow Konstantin Kaminskij has published a collection of essays on Eurasianism (5 September 2019).