Lecture

15 Jun 2026 · 5.45 pm

Matthias Schwartz: “Watch out! Snakes!” Anti-Colonialism, Emancipation, and Masculinity in Late Soviet Uzbek Adventure Films

Venue: Institute of Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS), Plattenstrasse 43, 8032 Zurich

Research project(s): World Fiction, Post/Socialist

Lecture as part of the workshop The Soviet Modernization Project and Representations of National and Ethnic Belonging in Soviet Cinema (1953–1985), 15–16 Jun 2026

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.