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Culture of Koenigsberg: the first university - Podcast #muzteatr39 (Issue 8)

Duration: 0:51:23

Non-Musical Talks in Musical Theater podcast series on YouTube channel and all platforms . Irina Sergeevna Kuznetsova, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, a participant in our new conversation, talks about the culture of the Kaliningrad region: what it was made of, how it developed, and what legacy we have left from Koenigsberg .

Language: Russian
Topics: HumanitiesMusicKaliningradCulture

Comparative literature: programming to help you

Duration: 0:38:57

Latvian radio4 is talking about comparative literature with Maria Semyonova, Doctor of Philology, lecturer at the University of Latvia . Do you know what connects word clusters and semantic shell? Why is digitality not good without interpretation? And where are the stylistic nuances hidden in text molecules?

Language: Russian
Topics: Comparative literatureHumanitiesPhilology

The genre of autobiography or Why write about yourself?

Duration: 0:34:59

"The Life of Archpriest Avvakum, written by himself" is the first example of the autobiographical genre in Russian literature . Svetlana Pogodina, Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Studies and Slavic Studies of the University of Latvia, will be on the program of the Latvian Radio 4 “The Nature of

Language: Russian
Topics: HumanitiesPhilologyAutobiographyRussian studies

Historical linguistics. How did they say in ancient times?

Duration: 0:35:00

The next issue of the program is the nature of things and it will be devoted to language and speech . Kirill Babaev, Doctor of Philology, Deputy Director of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, collector and owner of the World of Hats Museum, is participating in the "Nature of Things" program .

Language: Russian
Topics: HumanitiesPhilologyLinguisticsHistorical linguistics

Folk foreign: folklore - before and now

Duration: 0:35:00

Folklore is an obligatory component of the memory of the people of memory . Songs, legends, epics were a kind of sound code, passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, through this music of words, a person learned the world and understood the very essence of his ethnic group.

Language: Russian
Topics: HumanitiesFolkloreend of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuriesEuropeans

Six-armed Christ and the Orthodox centaur: according to what canons are icons painted?

Duration: 0:35:58

Historian, winner of the Enlightener Prize in the Humanities nomination, Sergey Zotov has been doing scientific research in Spain, Germany, and now works in the UK . Despite his rather young age, he has already written three full-fledged books on the Middle Ages, another edition is being prepared for publication.

Language: Russian
Topics: Humanitiesthe Middle Agesthe University of ParisOrthodox ChurchGermanySpain

Mayan civilization. How ancient people created their calendar

Duration: 0:35:00

This year marks exactly one hundred years since the birth of the famous Russian linguist, decipherer of writing Maya Yuri Knorozov. A monument was erected in a distant country - Mexico, a museum was created in his name . The man who opened the world to an ancient civilization, the calendar of which almost determined the end of the world.

Language: Russian
Topics: LinguisticsHistorical linguisticsthe Russian State University for the Humanities of the Yuri Knorozov American CenterYuri KnorozovMaya script