The Neighborhood Institute Working Group presents a lecture by Prof. Angela Brintlinger, titled "Build a City, Build an Empire: The Creation of St. Petersburg".
Angela Brintlinger is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Cultures. A specialist in Russian literature and culture from the 18th century to the present, she has visited St. Petersburg off and on for a quarter century. Her publications include Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture, 1917-1937 (Northwestern 2000) and the edited volume Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (Toronto 2007). Recently she has completed a monograph entitled Children of Chapaev: War and the Russian Literary Hero in the Twentieth Century. Her talk will introduce the origins and geography of the city of St. Petersburg and discuss its resonance as an "imperial" city.
This talk is sponsored by the Neighborhood Institute Working Group. The Neighborhood Institute of the Ohio State Humanities Institute is a multi-year undertaking in civic engagement, involving Ohio State faculty and students as well as neighborhood leaders and residents in the area east of the Ohio State campus. This working group treats the University Area as a subject of academic inquiry. Our goals are to provide research and place-based learning opportunities for undergraduate members of the group, to improve the quality of life of the University area community, to breach the wall between the University and the neighborhood, to create data and information useful to neighborhood organizations, local non-profits, urban policy makers and other external entities like Campus Partners; and to become a (national) model for university/community partnerships. Please contact conn.23@osu.edu or staley.3@osu.edu for additional information.
