Åsne Høgetveit

• Doctor of Russian Culture
• Senior Academic Librarian at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

How can the University Library better accommodate for students and faculty who need practical help with getting their writing done and develop their work habits? For many involved in academia, students and staff alike, the crucial task of writing is also one of the most challenging. People struggle to get past the first sentence, because it is not...

In Russian culture, there exists a strong theme of the morally superior woman. This theme has been described in studies of nineteenth-century Russian literature, and was called Sophia by Russian thinkers and poets of the Silver Age, such as Vladimir Solovyov and Vyacheslav Ivanov. Up until now, there have been no studies of how this theme has influ...

In this article I will discuss a number of (post-) Soviet sci-fi films, stretching over a hundred years or so, to look into what function (post-) Soviet female superhuman charac- ters have, and what they might tell us about fundamental discussions of humanity and its re- lation to technology, identity and gender. By looking into the traditional fun...

This article is dedicated to the film Wings (1966) directed by the Soviet director Larisa Shepitko. With its story of a World War II veteran, Nadezhda Stepanovna Petrukhina, Wings makes for an interesting case when looking at women’s and veteran’s status in the Soviet society of the 1960’s, and morality and memory culture more generally speaking. B...

This years Kinotavr was the 27th edition of the annual open Russian film festival, and it is an excellent venue for keeping up with what is going on in Russian cinema. The competition programme featured14 full-lengthfilms and 26 shorts, of which debutants and women directed an unusual large number.The large majority of the films had in common a con...

Sammendrag I denne artikkelen vil eg med utgangspunkt i ei feministisk filmanalyse av The Dawns Here Are Quiet… (Rostotskij 1972)og Leningrad (Buravskij 2009) drøfte den kvinnelege soldatrolla i sovjetisk og post-sovjetisk film. Etter ein kort introduksjon av filmane fylgjer ei drøfting om minnekulturen desse er ein del av. Resten av artikkelen vil...