Discussion with Vlad Tupikin and Olga Miryasova. City through the Eyes of an Activist

Date

Schedule

19:30–21:00

Place

Garage Auditorium

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Two experienced campaigners discuss the history of Moscow activism from the 1990s to the present day.

Activism forms an integral part of the city’s history. The public spaces and the bans that make up the contemporary Russian cityscape provide resources for—and condition street protests and activism. They also offer ample material for a critique of Russian capitalism. Together with Vlad Tupikin and Olga Miryasova, we will look at how breaking the rules can make life in the city better, talk about the intersections between activism and contemporary art, discuss activist and nonconformist communities and their place in the city space, and explore the forms of activism possible in a city.

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Vlad Tupikin is a historian, journalist and political activist. He is the author of books Radio Anarchy (2004) and Why Resist (2007). He has been the editor of the anarchist paper Volya since 1989. He lives and works in Moscow..

Olga Miryasova is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISRAS). She graduated in Sociology from the State Academic University for Humanities in Moscow in 2003, and has taken part in projects The Civil and the Political in Russian Public Practices: The Future of Institutional Differentiation (2011–2012) and Mass Politics in Russia: Institutional Bases for Mobilization, Representation, Participation and Action (2013–2015). She is among the authors of From Common People to Activists: Emerging Social Movements in Contemporary Russia. She lives and works in Moscow.