Event Videos — Center for Near Eastern Studies
Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024
In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking.