Russia by Valérie Pozner

In November 2022, we welcomed Valérie Pozner to our Paris offices. Director of research at the CNRS, she is a specialist in the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. In her research, she brings into dialogue the aesthetic, social, economic and technical dimensions of the cinematographic experience in a political space that extends from the empire to the Soviet Union.

From 2006 to 2008, she directed the Center for Franco-Russian Studies in Moscow. Having accepted a new mission as director of this same center, she was stationed in Moscow at the time of Russia's military aggression in Ukraine. She is telling us about the CEFR, now closed, and the researchers attached to it. We listen to her rare and precious testimony.

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Zones contraintes

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme supports intellectual circles in countries marked by various obstacles to academic freedom. To this end, it supports researchers who are no longer able to carry out their activities with the necessary serenity or even security. Stress, surveillance, administrative blockages, racism, gender discrimination and even war have led them to move, protect, isolate or even hide. This diversity of obstacles, in turn, calls for just as many strategies of protection and circumvention on the part of researchers.

This collection of podcasts, "Zones contraintes", tells their stories.