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Symposium on Contemporary Russia
325 Botany 618 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CAFive 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...
Guest Lecture – “Illustrating Russia: Comic Art, Graphic Narratives & Book Illustration”
362 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAEvent 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...
Book talk by Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj, University of Haifa – “The Russians in Israel: A New Ethnic Group in a Tribal Society”
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAProfessor 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...
Annual Holiday Celebration (2018)
314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAJoin 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.
Screening of the Polish Movie: Ether
169 Kaplan HallRSVP HERE
“Sincerity out, authenticity in: poetry in quest of trust in times of post-truth”
Online TBDIn 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...
Poetry & Music Night (2019)
314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CASAVE THE DATE! Please join us for an evening of poetry from Eastern and Central Europe! Musical performances of great works by composers such as Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev to be performed by students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served....
The Audacity of Russian Realism: Painting Critically in the 19th Century
Online TBDThis seminar will examine the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realist painting, a tradition which existed primarily from the mid-1840s through the late 1880s and was associated with a range of artistic figures—from the much-celebrated Ilia Repin, to the less well-known figures of Vasilii Perov and Ivan Kramskoi. Russian realist paintings have long been compared to...