BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Class/Seminar,Lecture/Presentation/Talk DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next CESTA Tuesday lunch seminar\, titled "Mapp ing the Topography of Cold War Culture: Nodes\, Networks and Routes of Tami zdat" by Ilaria Sicari\, Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow of the Un iversity Ca’ Foscari of Venice\, and a visiting scholar at Stanford Univers ity. During the Cold War\, culture became one of the most critical battlefi elds between the Western and Eastern blocs\, with books often serving as id eological weapons. This talk explores the tamizdat phenomenon – Soviet\, Ce ntral\, and Eastern European texts that\, censored or unpublished in the Ea stern bloc\, clandestinely crossed the Iron Curtain to be published in the West. By examining the production and circulation of these unique cultural artifacts\, the talk sheds light on the transnational dynamics that shaped Cold War culture. RSVP for lunch or to receive the Zoom link here.\n\nTalk Abstract\n\nDuring the Cold War\, the most relevant battlefield of the conf rontation between Western and Eastern blocs was that of culture: a struggle which was fought employing books as ideological weapons. To map the topogr aphy of Cold War culture – a socio-cultural space characterized by intense transnational interactions between different actors (state and non-state in dividuals and institutions) – this talk will focus on the production and ci rculation of a specific and very peculiar cultural object\, the tamizdat. T he Russian acronym tamizdat (literally “published over there”) is used for referring to Soviet\, Central and Eastern European texts which – censored o r unpublished in the Eastern bloc – clandestinely managed to cross the Iron curtain and be published in the West.\nBy tracing the multinational and mu ltidirectional routes of tamizdat magazines and books\, and mapping the tra nsnational relational networks of several actors responsible for their publ ication and circulation\, this talk wants to illustrate how digital tools a nd visualizations can offer new perspectives to the analysis of socio-cultu ral and political phenomena\, shedding new light on the interpretation of t heir complexity.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nIlaria Sicari is a Marie Curie pos tdoctoral research fellow of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice\, and a v isiting scholar at Stanford University\, where she is affiliated with the C enter for Russian Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and the Ce nter for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Her actual research – “Trans national Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultu ral History of the Tamizdat” (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101109157 ) – is a digital project devoted to the transnational production and circul ation of tamizdat\, with the aim to outline a comparative and intellectual history of the cultural Cold War. DTEND:20250128T211500Z DTSTAMP:20260312T102018Z DTSTART:20250128T200000Z GEO:37.427405;-122.1697 LOCATION:Building 160\, Wallenberg Hall\, Room 433A SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mapping the Topography of Cold War Culture: Nodes\, Networks and Ro utes of Tamizdat UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48649130817526 URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/mapping-the-topography-of-cold-war-cu lture-nodes-networks-and-routes-of-tamizdat END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR