BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ical@bgc.bard.edu//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bard Graduate Center X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-RELCALID:f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1640@www.bgc.bard.edu DTSTAMP:20260827T061524Z DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Sudha Rajagopalan will speak about how Soviet ob jects\, which were imported\, acquired on the flea market\, or otherwise g ifted during the Cold War\, are remembered today in Cuba and India. Object s produced in the Soviet Union were meant to convey ideas of socialist mod ernization to postcolonial societies. Yet\, once acquired\, they could bec ome disobedient\, in that they were consumed\, read\, and remembered in wa ys that did not necessarily adhere to the objects’ original meanings. Memo ries of these objects (now often replaced or given away) turn the Cold War from a field of ideological certitude into one of personal and affective everyday experience. Using oral history accounts\, Rajagopalan will demons trate how Soviet things also came to cohabit spaces with other things from around the world\, allowing interlocutors to undercut simple geopolitical binaries that pitted Soviet against American technopolitics.Sudha Rajagop alan teaches and researches in the Department of European Studies\, within its East European Studies cluster\, at the University of Amsterdam. Her f irst book\, Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-Going aft er Stalin (2009)\, draws on archival research and oral history methods and is considered a pioneering ethnohistory of Soviet moviegoing. Her most re cent book\, Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cub a and India (2023)\, is an oral history of socialist globalization constru cted around the journeys of Cold War–era Soviet objects\, such as househol d appliances\, decorative artifacts\, and books. A Russian-language transl ation was published in 2024. Rajagopalan has also published about Russian digital cultures on issues ranging from memory work to celebrity\, fandom\ , and post-feminism.Object LabsAt Bard Graduate Center\, we use an object- centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\, design his tory\, and material culture. Join our student educators before select Fall 2026 public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Coll ection. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected from t he collection\, which includes more than five thousand objects in a variet y of media. Drop in anytime between 5 and 6 pm\; the experience takes roug hly ten minutes.October 7\, 14\, and 21November 4\, 11\, and 1838 West 86t h Street\, New York5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection suppor ts student research by providing opportunities for hands-on close examinat ion of objects. Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T170000 SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Objects in Between: Cold War\, Material Cultu re\, and Emotions END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR