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At the Edge of Kamchatka with Nastassja Martin
June 9 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Anthropologist and writer Nastassja Martin discusses East of Dreams, drawing on the years she spent living with the Even people in Kamchatka. Displaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history. The author examines how humans, animals and spirits can be claimed as interconnected, challenging mainstream Western ideas that view nature as something separate from us.
In conversation with her translator Sophie R. Lewis, she will reflect on what these encounters reveal about colonial histories and the environmental crises of today.
