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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.
Dr Irina Prokhorova

Prokhorov Centre's patron receives Honorary Doctorate

Dr Irina Prokhorova, the Prokhorov Centre’s patron, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sheffield on 21 July 2016 in recognition of her distinguished academic career and her contribution to the promotion of Russian culture.

Interview with Evgeny Dobrenko on BBC World

Watch Evgeny Dobrenko on BBC World, speaking about Stalin's Legacy on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech.
Henk de Berg and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – The past and future of the humanities

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, one of today’s most eminent public intellectuals, delivered the Annual Prokhorov Lecture on the topic: The past and future of the humanities (5 May 2016).
Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-born French cultural critic

Interview with Tzvetan Todorov

Henk de Berg and Karine Zbinden interviewed the Bulgarian-born French thinker and public intellectual Tzvetan Todorov in Paris in March 2016.
Red Square

Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Martin Jay – Modes of Jewish intellectual life in the 20th century

The world-renowned cultural theorist Martin Jay (Berkeley) delivered the 2015 Annual Prokhorov Lecture in Cultural History on the topic Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish intellectual life in the 20th century (19 May 2015).