Nearly 150 years after its writing, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina continues to offer up new insights to readers and translators alike, discoveries arguably made possible by the passage of time. The novel’s most recent translation, by Marian Schwartz, takes a hard look at Tolstoy as a stylist and how he wielded aesthetics to bring home...
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to its annual
Join us for a free lecture featuring Artur Klinau on Friday, April 28, 2017 at 2pm in 311 Kaplan Hall. ARTUR KLINAU (born 1965) is a key player in the nonconformist art movement in contemporary Belarus. A kulturträger, artist, writer, and filmmaker, Klinau has been a fixture on the Belarusian and post-Soviet cultural scene for...
Join us for the 20th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies! The conference will be taking place on Saturday, April 29, 2017 in the Kaplan Hall at UCLA. The conference will begin with coffee and refreshments at 9:30am in Humanities 348 followed by opening remarks at 10am in Humanities A51. Click here to...
MIKHAIL TRUNIN Research Fellow, Tallinn University - Juri Lotman in the Soviet Debates on Structuralism (1965–1972) - Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:00 pm 348 Kaplan Hall - In his presentation Mikhail Trunin will discuss the polemics on structural methods of studying literary texts that started in the Soviet journals of the mid-1960s. He will...
Lecture by Dmitry Bykov: "Бродский как поэт русского мира" - Sunday, June 4th 3:30pm - 5:00pm 314 Royce Hall, UCLA - UCLA Department of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures with support from USRF is happy to invite you to Dmitry Bykov's lecture on Joseph Brodsky. The lecture will be followed by a...
MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT A Showcase of Diversity & Talent - Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 6 - 8 pm 314 Royce Hall - Tryouts are every Tuesday from 5:30-6:30pm in 343 Kaplan Hall Group acts are welcome. All performers must be UCLA students. Prizes will be awarded to the best acts. Show off your talent and enjoy...
The Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab @ Rolfe (2118 Rolfe Hall) The Russian Placement Exam is given once a year, on Wednesday during zero week of the Fall Quarter. If you have a problem taking the exam on this day, please contact okagan@ucla.edu or akudyma@ucla.edu. The exam takes ~90 minutes to complete and consists...
311 Kaplan Hall The Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to join us in celebrating a new academic year at our annual Departmental Open House! Come and get to know your classmates, professors, and departmental academic counselor! RSVP now, below! RSVP is not required, but preferred for planning purposes....
311 Kaplan Hall, UCLA UCLA Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures presents... Guest Lecture feat. Dr. Mykola Riabchuk Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Monday, October 9th, 2017 3:30pm - 5pm 311 Kaplan Hall Mykola Riabchuk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute...