Michael Kunichika teaches at Amherst College, where he is Professor and Chair of Russian. He also serves as director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at the College. He was a Senior Fellow of the Davis Center in 2013-14.

My Events:

Bożyszcza - wooden amulets and animals from prehistoric times of Polans, western Slavic tribe.

Prehistoric Front of the Cold War

Thursday, April 17, 2025
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past.

Michael Kunichika

Professor of Russian, Amherst College

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

See all events