Maria Kurbak

Dr. Maria Kurbak holds a PhD from the History department (African Studies), Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She works on a comparative historical project on collective guilt in Germany, South Africa and Russia 

 

 

Senior Fellow, department of Regional Studies, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Lecturer, Faculty of International Economy and International Affairs, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow

 

Current project: “Troubled Past – Troubled Future:  collective guilt in Germany, South Africa and Russia”

 

 

“State’s pride – people’s shame:Russian state propaganda and its effect on the collective guilt”

 Memory, Guilt and Shame. 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference, 27-28 October 2022, Gdansk, Poland 

 

“Discourse on “white guilt” in modern South African historiography”

The Fourth International Conference, The Synergy of Languages and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Studies, 29 September – 01 October 2022, St Petersburg University 

 

“Guilty nation”? Disputes on Afrikaners’ collective guilt in South African and international historiography”

The third international academic congress “Russia-Africa: Politics, Economy, History and Culture”, October 13-14, Kasan’ (online)
Russian Congress “Problems of African History und Russian-African Relations”. Moscow, 8 December, 2021

 

 

MONOGRAPH

Kurbak M. (2015) John Maxwell Coetzee. Reflections by an Outsider. (Дж.М. Куцие: мысли постороннего). Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2015. ISBN: 978-5-8243-1938-5. (In Russian)

 

FURTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

Kurbak M. (2021)Madness of the Society and Madness of the Writer: Wopko Jensma and the Politics of Apartheid. In: ISTORIYA. – No. 3 (113)ISSN 2079-8784, URL – http://history.jes.su (In Russian)

 

Kurbak M. (2021) “A Fatal Compromise”: South African Writers and “the Literature Police” in South Africa (1940-1960.). In:  Novaya I Noveyshaya Istoriya – No. 4 -Moscow, 2021 – pp. 137-148. (In Russian)

 

Kurbak M. (2020)Ingrid Jonker and Apartheid in South Africa,  ISTORIYA. – Vol. 11. Issue 8. – Moscow, 2020.-  URL: https://history.jes.su/s207987840011063-8-1 DOI: 10.18254/S207987840011063-8
(In Russian)

 

Kurbak M. (2019)South African “spy” and the Civil war in Russia: memoirs of Kenneth van der Spuy, Kunstkamera-, No. 4- St. Petersburg , 2019 – pp. 188-196 (in Russian)

 

Kurbak M. (2018)Official Policy on Freedom of Speech in Russia and South Africa. In: Nation and State Building in South Africa and Russia in the Late 20th-early 21st Century.
Moscow: Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2018.
Pp. 179-203. ISBN 978-5-94067-479-5

 

Kurbak M. (2018)Russia in the Contemporary Literature of South Africa: in the Labyrinths of Understanding and Misunderstanding, Novaya I Noveyshaya istoriya – No. 2 – Moscow, 2018 – pp. 144-155. (In Russian)