Presented by Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios. This article explores Henry Lefebvre’s theory of social space as a mediating force between capitalism and the imagined worlds it offers. According to Lefebvre, a mode of production is only affirmed as such and only merits this name if it has given rise to a space (and a social time) (217).…

Presented by Hanna Chuchvaha This presentation will explain how the modernist art periodicals, World of Art (Mir Iskusstva, 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece (Zolotoe runo, 1906-1909) and Apollo (Apollon, 1909-1917), the symbols of the print revival in late Imperial Russia, altered the understanding of periodical culture, influenced graphic design and established the conception of ideal book…

by Dr. Luis Torres.