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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.
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Prokhorov Centre conference 2015 attracts experts from all over the world

Participants came from all over the world to attend the Prokhorov Centre conference: Russian Formalism & Eastern and Central European Literary Theory – A Centenary View (15-16 May 2015).
Dr Irina Prokhorova

Opening of the Prokhorov Centre

Prominent cultural historian and publisher Dr Irina Prokhorova officially opened the Prokhorov Centre on 15 May 2015.
Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-born French cultural critic

Prokhorov Centre hosts international colloquium on Bulgarian-born French thinker Tzvetan Todorov

Together with Karine Zbinden in the Department of French, Henk de Berg organised a two-day international colloquium on the work of the Bulgarian-born French thinker Tzvetan Todorov (23-24 March 2015).
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Annual Prokhorov Lecture by Marjorie Levinson – Lyric: the idea of this invention

Marjorie Levinson delivered the 2015 Annual Prokhorov Lecture in Critical Theory on the topic Lyric: the idea of this invention (5 March 2015).
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Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Terry Eagleton – Whatever happened to literary theory?

Terry Eagleton, prominent literary theorist, critic and public intellectual, delivered the 2014 Annual Prokhorov Lecture in Critical Theory on the topic: Whatever happened to literary theory?