Book presentation and conversation (via Zoom): Late Soviet Enlightenment and Anti-Soviet Radio: Alexander Piatigorsky on Radio Liberty | Guest: Kirill Kobrin

Veranstalter: Lehrstuhl für Slavische Literaturwissenschaft

Im Rahmen des Oberseminars für Slavische Literaturwissenschaft

Presentation of Svobodnyi filosof Piatigorsky (2nd, extended edition in one volume; Common Ground, Erevan 2026)

Guest: Kirill Kobrin

Moderation: Simone Guidetti and Christian Zehnder

(The conversation will be in Russian)

Online only Zoom link: https://uni-bamberg.zoom-x.de/j/65077957762

Alexander Moiseevich Piatigorsky (1929 2009), philosopher, orientalist, and writer. In 1974, Piatigorsky was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He settled in the United Kingdom and taught at the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London (SOAS). The volume Svobodnyi filosof Piatigorsky contains five series of lectures on philosophy and philosophers from Buddha and Zoroaster to Arthur Koestler, Alexandre Kojève, and Jean-Paul Sartre broadcast on Radio Liberty in the mid-1970s through early 1990s. Each lecture is accompanied by a commentary by the book s editor and compiler, Kirill Kobrin.

For more information about the book: https://slova-vne.com/news/common-ground-pereizdayot-knigu-svobodnyy-filosof-pyatigorskiy

Kontakt:

Zehnder, Christian Lehrstuhl für Slavische Literaturwissenschaft Telefon +49 951 863-2109, E-Mail: christian.zehnder@uni-bamberg.de