Lecture
24 May 2026 · 2.00 pm
Matthias Schwartz: Summer Will End. Aesopian Aesthetics of Brutality in Contemporary Popular Movies and TV Series
Venue: Stockholm Universitet, Spelbomskan, Aula Magna, Frescativägen 6, 114 18 Stockholm
Research project(s): Adjustment and Radicalisation
Lecture as part of the symposium “Dark Legacies. Violence and Aesthetics in Contemporary Russian Culture” at Stockholm Universitet
Slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz is deputy director of the ZfL and co-coordinator of the program area World Literature. He is head of the projects World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe.