In this presentation, Sasha Senderovich will discuss his new book, How the Soviet Jew Was Made, published by Harvard University Press in 2022. In the book, Senderovich offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film that recast the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent...
Please 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 in the Young Research Library’s Main Conference Room 11360 (located behind the coffee shop on the main floor). The event features a one-day showcase of...
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,...