Conversation with investigative journalist Maria Pevchikh Tuesday, March 14, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (Pacific Time) Physics & Astronomy Building, Room 1425 The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) in co-sponsorship with the UCLA Russian Flagship Program, the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, and The Promise Institute for Human Rights at...

Leading Czech novelist Martin Vopěnka reflects on how, growing up in communist Europe, writers found their voices. What can we learn from their fictional worlds as we face our own troubled times? As he launches his new novel MY BROTHER THE MESSIAH, Martin Vopěnka leads us into the mindset of current Slavic writing.   Martin...

Still from Chornobyl 22, a documentary film by Oleksiy Radynski, 2023. Camera: Max Savchenko. Abstract Join Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski and art historian Asia Bazdyrieva as they expand the territory of decolonial discourse by examining Ukraine’s anti-imperial war against Russia. Analyzing Russia’s tactics of energy colonialism, its neo-fascist regime, and the complicity of the West’s...

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Two Literary Protest Almanachs: Metropol (1979) and VYKHOD (2022) Offering a timely perspective on the literary and political landscape of modern-day Russia, this presentation will discuss two literary protest almanacs, Metropol (1978) and VYKHOD (2022), which feature contemporary non-conformist Russian writers. The Metropol almanac was a collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers including Vladimir Vysotsky, Bella Akhmadulina, and Andrei Voznesensky,...

TOMISLAV MATIĆ Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate, Croatian Institute for History Astronomers, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez, a 15th Century Central European Humanist Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Royce 236 This lecture will show that Eastern Central Europe was a participant in broader...

Vladimir Paperny, SEEELC Adjunct Professor, author of the bestseller Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two, translated into several languages, the Russian-language novel Schultz’ Archive, short-listed for the Big Book Award, and other publications, recently published a book based on the work he started with the late Maya Turovskaya—a comparative analysis of Soviet and...