Абонемент на Хороший Вопрос - ОСЕНЬ 2026 Tickets in New York
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September 18, 19:30 (doors at 19:00)
Oleg Itskhoki. The End of Globalization? Trade wars, the breakdown of supply chains, and the future of the dollar
The global economy is entering an era of change. For decades, globalization — the removal of trade barriers, the free movement of goods and capital — promised growth, cheap goods, and the convergence of nations. Today it is increasingly becoming a source of conflicts: the relocation of factories from developed countries to China and other Asian nations has transformed the economies of the US and Europe and intensified inequality within them, while trade wars and geopolitical rivalry are splitting the world into competing blocs.
Harvard Professor Oleg Itskhoki will also discuss whether the dollar can withstand the test of the new world order — and whether all of this signals the end of globalization or its transformation into a new, harsher and more fragmented form.
Oleg Itskhoki is a professor of economics at Harvard University. He holds the named professorship of the Slukis family. Previously, he held a named professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and before that was a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research.
Сфера научных интересов — макроэкономика и международная экономика, в частности вопросы глобализации и рынков труда, а также валют и обменных курсов. В 2022 году Олег Ицхоки был удостоен медали Джона Бейтса Кларка, стипендиат фонда Слоуна, лауреат премии за выдающиеся достижения в области мировой экономики от Кильского института мировой экономики, а также входил в список 25 наиболее влиятельных экономистов моложе 45 лет по версии МВФ. Ведёт еженедельную авторскую рубрику «Экономический смысл», в которой обсуждает актуальные экономические события.
3 октября, 19:30 (двери в 19:00)
Екатерина Лихтик. По волнам эмоций: Как мозг производит и подавляет страх
Нами часто правит страх — и всё, что с ним связано: люди, места, предметы — мозг запоминает мгновенно и надолго. Профессор нейробиологии Екатерина Лихтик расскажет, что такое страх с точки зрения науки и почему миндалевидное тело мозга улавливает опасность быстрее, чем мы успеваем её осознать. Страх, связанный с сильным стрессом или травмой — как при посттравматическом стрессовом расстройстве, — может выйти из-под контроля и распространиться на ситуации, которые изначально не имели к нему отношения. Она объяснит, как разные участки мозга — и в первую очередь префронтальная кора — «договариваются» между собой с помощью нейронных колебаний, чтобы взять страх под контроль, и как внимание можно использовать словно меч — для защиты от тревоги и страха.
Ekaterina Likhtik is a professor of neurobiology at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her laboratory studies how neuronal processes and the dynamics of communication between the cortex and subcortical regions of the brain, which underlie the regulation of emotions, change. The goal of the work is to identify the key relationships between neuroanatomy and neurophysiology for understanding and treating psychiatric disorders.
October 24, 7:30 PM (doors at 7:00 PM)
Dima Alexeev. Russian street art as part of the global avant-garde
At the center of the lecture is a comparison of Russian street art with its European and American counterparts, exploring what unites and separates these parallel worlds. Street art became an avant-garde and humanistic movement that profoundly transformed contemporary art, and therefore the frenzied interest in it was no coincidence. True, this interest did not save the phenomenon from degradation and virtual demise — both in Russia and abroad: a string pulled too tight always snaps.
Особенно подробно будет рассмотрен российский стрит-арт: с опорой на обширный видеоряд Дима Алексеев проанализирует искусство Паши 183, Тимы Ради, группы «Зачем» и «Война», с некоторыми из своих героев лектор был знаком лично, участвовал в одних фестивалях с ними и решал похожие творческие задачи. Но разумеется, разговор пойдет и о европейских и американских авторах — Ludo, JR и Kidult, чей протест близок художнику смелостью и глубиной идей.
Дима Алексеев (р. 1963, Москва) — мультидисциплинарный художник, исследующий пересечения культурной памяти, социальной архитектуры и человеческого существования.
Alexeev's works combine theatrical convention with current social commentary: his installations explore the dependence of human behavior on global social processes, and demonstrate how historical heritage shapes contemporary identity. After moving to the USA in 2016, Dima Alexeev engaged in monumental public projects that enter into dialogue with the American landscape, while retaining the aesthetics of Eastern European avant-garde.
Alexeev's solo and group exhibitions have been held at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), and «Garage»; his works are held in private and museum collections around the world.
Among selected exhibitions and projects — solo shows at Crossing Art Gallery (New York, 2026) and MORA Museum of International Art (Jersey City, 2022–2024), participation in the festival «Factory + Art = ...» in Paterson (2024–2025) and group exhibitions «Post-Soviet Aesthetics and Identity» in Miami and New York (2018–2020), the community project «Sky Maintenance» in Roswell (2017) and site-specific installations at The Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta (2017); in Russia — curatorial and artistic work at the ArtOvrag festivals in Vyksa (2011–2016) and «Luch» and «Code of the Epoch» in Moscow (2011–2016), as well as participation in international art fairs in London, Berlin, and Zurich (2000–2010).
Dmitry Alexeev lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
November 7, 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30 PM)
Alexei Pajitnov. «Tetris» and Beyond: Play as a Form of Thinking
First we will watch the film «Tetris» (2023, directed by Jon S. Baird) about the creator of the iconic game Alexei Pajitnov.
And then we will discuss with Alexey Pajitnov himself what remained beyond the boundaries of the script and why playing is no less serious an activity than reading or working; as well as what the difference is between "passive" consumption (TV, social media feeds) and active, decision-demanding gameplay. And about how many successful projects are born thanks to personal interest and curiosity.
Alexey Pajitnov is the legendary creator of the game Tetris, a Soviet and American programmer and game designer.
He worked at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, dealing with artificial intelligence and speech recognition tasks, and in 1984, inspired by the American mathematician Solomon Golomb's puzzle Pentomino Puzzle, conceived and created Tetris.
In 1988, he founded the AnimaTek studio, and in 1991 moved with it to the USA. Despite the game's enormous popularity, for a long time he received no royalties for it — this changed only in 1996, when together with Dutch game designer Henk Rogers he founded The Tetris Company. That same year, Pajitnov moved to Microsoft, where he worked on developing puzzle games and brain teasers.
Tetris entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and became the first video game to have been in space — in 1993, cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov took it with him to the Mir space station.
December 12, 7:30 PM (Doors at 7:00 PM)
Ivan Kurilla. Russia and the Civil War in the USA
Why did the Russian public follow the American Civil War as if it were an event directly connected to the fate of their own country? What did reformers, their critics, and radicals find in it? And why did this distant conflict prove more resonant in Russian political discourse than many events of their own history?
The lecture will explain how 19th-century America became a mirror for Russia, a language of debate and a source of political analogies. Through this storyline, one can see how political translation works and why another country's history sometimes proves more convenient than one's own.
Ivan Kurilla, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, formerly at Volgograd State University and the European University in Saint Petersburg, now teaches at Ohio State University. A specialist in the history of the United States and Russian-American relations, as well as in how the past is used by contemporary society.
Author of several books, including "Transatlantic Partners: America and Russia in the 1830s–1850s" (Volgograd University Press, 2005), "Sworn Friends: A History of Opinions, Fantasies, Contacts, and Mutual (Mis)understanding between Russia and the USA" (NLO, 2018), "History, or The Past in the Present" (European University Press in St. Petersburg, 2017), "Battle for the Past: How Politics Changes History" (Alpina, 2022), "Americans and Everyone Else: The Origins and Meaning of U.S. Foreign Policy" (Alpina, 2024, — "Enlightener" Award 2024), and also co-author of the monograph "Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations" (Cambridge University Press, 2025, with David S. Foglesong and Victoria I. Zhuravleva).
