Forum is Pushkin House’s platform for critically engaged, cross-disciplinary events that interrogate the political, historic, social, and economic forces shaping Russian, Eastern European, Caucasian and Central Asian geocultural spaces

Through rigorous panel discussions, lectures, performances, and experimental media, Forum addresses the legacies of empire, repression, and transformation, while fostering the civic values of open debate and critical thinking that underpin healthy democracies.

As an independent space, Pushkin House is uniquely placed as a nonpartisan platform for the exchange of complex opinions and the production of new knowledge. Forum offers deep insights from investigative journalists working on the ground, as well as expert insights from academics, authors and artists, to serve as both a meeting place and an intellectual engine, anchoring Pushkin House’s mission to explore, challenge, and debate Russian culture and identity in dialogue with global histories and futures.