The Center for Democratic Culture is hosting the Fifth Nevada Conference on Russian Culture. The event will be held Nov. 21-22, 2026, at the Boyd School of Law Moot Court. Among the conference participants are Russian, American, and European artists, scholars, and public intellectuals, including Boris Akunin, Mikhail Shishkin, Dmitry Krymov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ekaterina Shulman, Leonid Gozman, Andrei Kolesnikov, Mikhail Epstein, Aleksandr Genis, Vera Pavlova, Gasan Gusejnov, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Mikhail Fishman, Viktor Shenderovich, Paul Werth, and Dmitri Shalin.
The program and conference materials can be found on the UNLV Center for Democratic Culture website. The event is open to the public, but an RSVP and confirmation from the organizers is required. Please send your inquiries to Dmitri Shalin, dmitri.shalin@ulv.edu.
