The Department of Theatre and Performance Studies organised ‍a Seminar on "Modern Russian Theatre: Art, Aesthetics and Cultural History," on 9 November 2026, at the Faculty of Arts Conference Room on the fifth floor of the Arts Building. The Seminar was organised as Part of its Global Performance Knowledge Lecture Series, Presented by Valeria Adlerovna Berest, head of the Department of Theory and History of Culture at RUDN University in Moscow.

The inaugural session was graced by the presence of the Honorable Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dhaka University- Professor Dr. Md. Abul Kalam Sarker. The opening remarks were delivered by Dr. Titas Zia, Associate Professor of the Department, while the session was chaired by the Department's Chairman, Dr. Shahman Moishan.