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Lunchtime Talks: Every Wednesday
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Lunchtime Talks: Every Wednesday
17 February 2010 - 14 April 2010
Artists, curators and special guests will led a walk through Star City. The artists in this programme will use the exhibition to talk about related themes in their own...
Byt
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Byt
10 March 2010
“Byt” is Russian for everyday life. Dr Susan E. Reid of the Russian and Slavonic Studies Department, the University of Sheffield, will talk about Russian domestic...
Reading Room Part 2
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Reading Room Part 2
16 March 2010
Informal talks, discussions and readings inspired by Star City, co-ordinated by Jennie Syson, an independent Nottingham based curator. You will be sent the required...
Art Under Communism
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Art Under Communism
17 March 2010
During the period 1917 to 1945 artists, and subsequently the state, attempted to define the political role of art. Dr Mike O’Mahony of the History of Art Department at...
Food and Humour
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Food and Humour
18 March 2010
Seth Graham of University College London will preside at a night of humour – and food. A smorgasbord of Eastern European cuisines will include Russian, Polish, Ukranian...
Old Europe, New Europe – Flows and Divides
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Old Europe, New Europe – Flows and Divides
24 March 2010
What happened to the financial infrastructure of the Eastern Block after the Iron Curtain fell? Dr Adam Swain, Associate Professor at the School of Geography, the...
Soviet Cosmos
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Soviet Cosmos
25 March 2010
Associate Professor Rolf Hellebust of the University of Nottingham will give an illustrated lecture on the history of Soviet space exploration as a symbol of utopian...
Show and (Fore)Tell
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Show and (Fore)Tell
31 March 2010
In the spirit of Star City, Nottingham Contemporary will try to predict the future, with the help of three speakers on geology, natural history and technology. Jan...
The Reading Room Part 3
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The Reading Room Part 3
06 April 2010
Informal talks, discussions and readings inspired by Star City, co-ordinated by Jennie Syson, an independent Nottingham based curator. You will be sent the required...

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