‍A History of Performance Art in Kazakhstan featured a Q&A session with prominent Kazakhstani art critic, curator, and former director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art Almaty, Valeria Ibraeva. The session addressed the relationship between art and politics and explored cultural transformations in Central Asia.

On Aggregators workshop introduced students to David Joselit’s influential essay on how internet aggregators shape contemporary artistic practices, with insights provided by art theorist and filmmaker Alexey Ulko.

Institutions in the Age of Hybrid Warfare continued Ulko’s lecture series, focusing on the impact of digital technologies on individuals, communities, and nation-states.

The Fiction of the Contemporary was led by philosophy lecturer and PhD candidate Dmitry Melnikov, who examined British art theorist Peter Osborne’s text on the concept of contemporaneity and the influence of temporality on modern society.