Lecture
13 Nov 2026 · 4.15 pm
Matthias Schwartz: “Watch out! Snakes!” Anti-Colonialism, Emancipation, and Masculinity in Late Soviet Uzbek Adventure Films
Venue: Universität Zürich, Institute of Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS), Plattenstrasse 43, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Research project(s): World Fiction, Post/Socialist
Lecture as part of the workshop “The Soviet Modernization Project and Representations of Nationaland Ethnic Belonging in Soviet Cinema (1953-1985)”
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.