Isa Jacobs

@JonathanEgid @SOAS Congratulations!!

@JulieDeschep I'd be interested!

‼️ICCEES World Congress‼️ With Antony Kalashnikov we are looking for co-panelists: (Post-)Socialist Culture and Russian Nationalism We seek to explore the connections between socialist culture and Russian nationalism, in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Anyone?

Our new special edition box set includes: •New 4K digital restorations •Interviews with scholars @cinemiasma and @isa_jcbs •Archival interview with Kira Muratova •An essay by @jessicakiang •New covers by La Moutique and more!

“Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.” On Brecht's collages in London for e-flux: e-flux.com/notes/618795/f…

The book on Kojève "Tyrants at work" (edited with @malpassimo) is available here in open access: ☞ edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9… You will find a precious gift from Kojève's family: an unpublished essay (translated from Russian and presented in French) from 1929 ↬ @EdizioniETS

To mark the release of Agnieszka Holland's "Green Border" in the US and UK, @isa_jcbs lists ten must-watch films by Polish women. They include interwar avant-garde cinema, the world's first Holocaust film, and reflections on feminism notesfrompoland.com/2024/06/28/ten…

Our new special edition box set includes: •New 4K digital restorations •Interviews with scholars @cinemiasma and @isa_jcbs •Archival interview with Kira Muratova •An essay by @jessicakiang •New covers by La Moutique and more!

Neu auf dem ZfL Blog Zur Einstimmung auf die Ewald-Ilyenkow-Tagung in der nächsten Woche resümieren Isabel Jacobs @isa_jcbs und Martin Küpper Leben und Werk des sowjetischen Philosophen. zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2024/…

I wrote a little piece on Platonov's Chevengur 🐴🐴🐴 e-flux.com/notes/596769/c…

In this third and final installment of the Virtual Issue on East European Intellectual History, @isa_jcbs and @ArturBanaszews1 discuss the complex and controversial legacies of Russian nationalistic thought. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024/0…

Evald Ilyenkov's "Notes on Wagner": a new translation, with an introduction, by Isabel Jacobs @isa_jcbs, in Studies in East European Thought link.springer.com/article/10.100… link.springer.com/article/10.100…

‘She listened with her whole person: with her hands, with her lips, with her eyes.’ For Rachel Bespaloff, philosophy was a sensual activity @isa_jcbs bit.ly/3veQcKH

In this think piece, Isabel Jacobs (@isa_jcbs) explains why Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov brings valuable insights to contemporary debates on ecology and environment. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2023/1…

Ready for unmissable gems of Eastern European Animation? Then join us tomorrow, 26 Sept, 6.30pm for classics like Trnka's The Hand, Švankmajer's Dimensions of Dialogue & more... 📌 ICA, London 📷 26 Sept, 6.30pm 🎟️ica.art/films/jirtdan 🤝@PuppetAnimaScot @SamizdatFilm

All in all, an enriching and interdisciplinary conference which inspired much discussion and debate, widening our understanding of Interwar émigré Paris, expertly organised by @isa_jcbs and Veselina Dzhumbeva - sponsored by @BASEES @LAHP_DTP @QMUL #ExOrienteLux

@isa_jcbs @QMULCompLit @LAHP_DTP @unitorvergata @UnivBabesBolyai @Inalco Fascinating first keynote from Alexandra Smith @LLCatEdinburgh on 'Reimagining the Pushkin Myth in Paris in the 1920s and 30s' with discussions on contemporary reception, the émigré intellectual milieu, nation-building and self-orientalising, and more...

@isa_jcbs @QMULCompLit @LAHP_DTP The City as Text 🗺️ Sara Gargano @unitorvergata on the poetry of 'Minor Parnassus'; Júlia Vallasek @UnivBabesBolyai on the female gaze, journalism and Zsuzsa Thury; Anastasia Kozyreva @Inalco on illustrations of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades as Petersburg text

Join the ‘Ex Oriente Lux: Emigré Culture in Interwar France’ conference, 1-2 September @QMUL and on Zoom. Organised by Queen Mary PhD students @isa_jcbs and @dzhumbeva. Full programme details: bit.ly/45F69GW