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SUMMARY:Objects in Between: Cold War\, Material Culture\, and Emotions
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center
DESCRIPTION:Objects in Between: Cold War\, Material Culture\, and EmotionsA
  lecture by Sudha Rajagopalan (University of Amsterdam)Wednesday\, October
  21\, 202638 West 86th Street\, Lecture Hallgallery@bgc.bard.edu$15 Genera
 l | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a college or university
 \, people with museum ID\, people with disabilities and caregivers\, and B
 GC membersNo late seating\; admittance is not guaranteed after 6 pm.In thi
 s talk\, Sudha Rajagopalan will speak about how Soviet objects\, which wer
 e imported\, acquired on the flea market\, or otherwise gifted during the 
 Cold War\, are remembered today in Cuba and India. Objects produced in the
  Soviet Union were meant to convey ideas of socialist modernization to pos
 tcolonial societies. Yet\, once acquired\, they could become disobedient\,
  in that they were consumed\, read\, and remembered in ways that did not n
 ecessarily adhere to the objects’ original meanings. Memories of these o
 bjects (now often replaced or given away) turn the Cold War from a field o
 f ideological certitude into one of personal and affective everyday experi
 ence. Using oral history accounts\, Rajagopalan will demonstrate how Sovie
 t things also came to cohabit spaces with other things from around the wor
 ld\, allowing interlocutors to undercut simple geopolitical binaries that 
 pitted Soviet against American technopolitics.Sudha Rajagopalan teaches an
 d researches in the Department of European Studies\, within its East Europ
 ean Studies cluster\, at the University of Amsterdam. Her first book\, Ind
 ian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-Going after Stalin (2009
 )\, draws on archival research and oral history methods and is considered 
 a pioneering ethnohistory of Soviet moviegoing. Her most recent book\, Jou
 rneys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India (20
 23)\, is an oral history of socialist globalization constructed around the
  journeys of Cold War–era Soviet objects\, such as household appliances
 \, decorative artifacts\, and books. A Russian-language translation was pu
 blished in 2024. Rajagopalan has also published about Russian digital cult
 ures on issues ranging from memory work to celebrity\, fandom\, and post-f
 eminism.Image: Soviet-designed Caribe TV in a Havana living room. Photo: S
 udha Rajagopalan.Object LabsAt Bard Graduate Center\, we use an object-cen
 tered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\, design histor
 y\, and material culture. Join our student educators before select Fall 20
 26 public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Colle
 ction. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected from th
 e collection\, which includes more than five thousand objects in a variety
  of media. Drop in anytime between 5 and 6 pm\; the experience takes rough
 ly ten minutes.October 21\; November 4\, 11\, and 1838 West 86th Street\, 
 New York5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports studen
 t research by providing opportunities for hands-on close examination of ob
 jects. Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here.\n\nBoletos: https:/
 /www.simpletix.com/e/objects-in-between-cold-war-material-cultu-tickets-28
 9311
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