Amherst Center for Russian Culture Ada Ackerman, CNRS/THALIM

Ada Ackerman works as a Permanent Researcher at THALIM/CNRS (French National Research Center). An art historian and a specialist of Sergei Eisenstein’s work, she has published a book derived from her PhD thesis, Eisenstein et Daumier, des affinités électives (2013). She has curated for the Jewish Museum in Paris the show Golem! Avatars d’une légende d’argile (2017) and edited its catalogue. She is currently preparing a book on Eisenstein's library, with Luka Arsenjuk: Reading with Eisenstein. She is curating the show "The Ecstatic Eye: Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of arts", for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, which will open on September 2019.