Lecture and Seminar by Peter Steiner
Young Research Library - Main Conference Room 11360Please join us this Friday, March 10th at 3:00pm for a lecture by Peter Steiner entitled, “The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel’s Greengrocer”. The lecture will be...
Poetry Night
Online“NAVALNY” AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RUSSIA’S FUTURE: A CONVERSATION WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST MARIA PEVCHIKH
1425 PAB BuildingConversation 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)...
Writing a Way out of Communism
348 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CALeading 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...
Yes, Russia is Still an Empire, But This Won’t Last Long
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAStill 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...
Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
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From Soviet Hell to the Putin Nightmare
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CATwo 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)...
Astronomers, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez, a 15th Century Central European Humanist
236 RoyceTOMISLAV 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,...
Cinema, Culture and The Spirit of Time
311 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAVladimir 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...