Megija Milberga’s lecture: Greening the spaceship
📅 Thursday, 27 October, 5:30 PM
🎟️ Registration fee: 2 EUR, register here
🗣️ Event in Latvian
As part of the public programme for the exhibition “Spaceship Earth”, art historian Megija Milberga will give a lecture “Greening the spaceship”.
From Stalin’s “Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature” to the flooding of the Staburags cliff and the desertification of the Aral Sea, the late Soviet period was marked by events that profoundly reshaped people’s conception of the natural world. This lecture “greens” the exhibition “Spaceship Earth” by tracing the environmental histories that unfolded in parallel with the works on view – revealing how landscapes, ecologies, and ideologies intertwined, shaping both collective consciousness and artistic imagination.
About the lecturer
Megija Milberga is an art historian and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts in NYU, where she is studying modern art and architecture in Eastern Europe. Her research interrogates site-consciousness as a tool of insurgent citizenship in Soviet-era architecture in the Baltic states. She holds a B.Sc. from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and an M.A. (summa cum laude) from KU Leuven. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Fellowship. She has presented her research at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies convention, as well as the Frick Symposium for Art History, representing New York University.
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