Plot: Adam returns home to Poland to spend Christmas Eve with his family and share the news that his child will soon be born. He is not the first member of the family to leave the country to earn a living. His father ‘lost his health as a construction worker in Germany’, and his uncle worked...
Five undergraduate and graduate student presentations on contemporary Russian culture and politics Program 4:00-4:40 Yana Demeshko | Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures "A Fifth Estate: The Contribution of Urban and Rural Youth to Russia's Political Landscape" Leanna Kramer | Global Studies | Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures "The Era of...
Event Flier ILLUSTRATING RUSSIA COMIC ART, GRAPHIC NARRATIVES & BOOK ILLUSTRATION Friday, November 16th, 2018 7pm - 9pm 362 Royce Hall, UCLA Dr. Julia Alekseyeva is a scholar, writer and illustrator who specializes in non-fiction graphic narratives, comic journalism, and memoir. Her non-fiction historical memoir entitled Soviet Daughter (2017) won the 2017 VLA Diversity Award and...
Professor Majid Al-Haj of the University of Haifa will discuss his forthcoming book, which looks at the influx of Russian immigrants into Israel, their ethnic formation and their impact on politics, culture and society in Israel. RSVP Flier Co-sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, the UCLA Center for European and...
Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! Wednesday, December 05, 2018 06:30pm - 08:00pm 314 Royce Hall Our talented students will perform holiday songs, poems, skits, and more to ring in the holiday season.
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In the first half of the 1990s a new generation of Russian poets, — or a considerable part thereof — found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way to speak straightforwardly: readily available poetics either wasn’t up to the job or was itself part of the problem. Poetry optics, which emerged at the...