Svetlana Boym: “Freedom and the Arts of Dissent

Media artist, playwright, and novelist Svetlana Boym is Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University. Boym's written work explores relationships between: utopia and kitsch, memory and modernity, and homesickness and sickness of home. This part of the Forum on the Humanities and the Public World is presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California Berkeley.