Students of Smolny (the dispersed faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University) were accused of excessive freedom and urged to “think in Russian” – in response, they wrote a complaint to the faculty management
Masters of the direction “Curatorial studies” wrote a complaint against the teacher Irina Khmyrova-Pruel, sent to replace dismissed earlier Associate Professor of Philosophy Denis Skopin. According to them, the teacher refused to read the course “Philosophical Aesthetics” under the program of Denis Skopin, arbitrarily excluding from it the part about world culture. Throughout the session, Khmyrova-Pruel repeatedly pointed to the rejection of world culture. In the complaint, the students cite the following quotes:
“We are in Russia, let’s discuss Russian culture”,
“American history is a “symbiosis” of English, there is nothing there, let’s talk about Russian”,
“English is limited”, and also encouraged students to “think in Russian”.
During the lesson, the teacher repeatedly made mistakes in the context of world culture. So, in the complaint, students write that, in the interpretation of the teacher, Parnassus became part of Rome, and on the cover of the first edition of Romeo and Juliet was written “comedy”. Kazimir Malevich, according to Khmyrova-Pruel, did not create a square, but came up with a sketch for the stage, and his work was called “opera” (in fact, “Victory over the Sun”). Malevich’s exhibition “0.10” was held in the Moscow Manezh (in fact, in the Adamini House in St. Petersburg), and “Malevich was horrified that his square hung in the red corner” (in reality, Malevich independently placed the “Black Square” in the red corner of the room , and later the work was called “an icon of the Russian avant-garde”).
At the end of the complaint, the students, who signed as a group, demand that Khmyrova-Pruel be replaced by any teacher in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
SOTA (@sotaproject)