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SUMMARY:Yes\, Russia is Still an Empire\, But This Won't Last Long
DESCRIPTION:Still from Chornobyl 22\, a documentary film by Oleksiy Radynski\, 2023. Camera: Max Savchenko. \nAbstract\nJoin 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 failing capitalist models\, the presentation will expand the notion of the Russian Federation as a settler apparatus based on institutional racism and extractivist exploitation. The speakers will argue that the dissolution of the Russian Federation is a necessary element in the global fight against colonial and racist power structures. \nSpeakers\nAsia Bazdyrieva is an art historian whose work focuses on hybrid European-Soviet modernity and its ideological and material implications in spaces\, bodies\, and lands. Bazdyrieva co-authored Geocinema\, a collaborative project exploring infrastructures of earth sensing as a form of cinema\, which has been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020) and the Golden Key Prize at the Kassel Dokfest (2021). She is currently an associate member of Critical Media Lab Basel and a resident of transmediale. [Portrait photograph of Asia Bazdyrieva by Support Your Art] \nOleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker based in Kyiv\, Ukraine. He was born in 1984 and raised on the ruins of a Documentary Film Studio in Kyiv. After studying film theory at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy\, he took part in several film education experiments including Home Workspace Program (Ashkal Alwan\, Beirut) and Labor in a Single Shot by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann. His films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival\, e-flux (New York)\, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Krakow IFF\, DOK Leipzig\, DoсAviv\, Sheffield Doc Fest\, Docudays IFF\, S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin)\, International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York)\, among other places\, and received a number of festival awards. As an essayist he contributed to publications including Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (Archive Books\, 2017)\, Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA\, 2018)\, and e-flux journal. [Portrait photograph of Oleksiy Radynski by Anastasiya Mantach]\n \nModerator\nLaurie Kain Hart is Director of the Center for European and Russian Studies and a sociocultural anthropologist with a research focus on the long-term effects on persons and communities of ethnopolitical conflict\, civil war\, state engineered population displacements\, migration\, nationalism\, racism\, globalization\, and ethnospatial segregation. As a former architect\, she is particularly interested in theories of space and place that help us understand the impact of spatial\, architectural\, and geopolitical forces on social inequality and marginalization. Hart’s interest is in understanding the links between macro-social and political forces and individual subjectivity. She therefore works at the intersection of political anthropology\, space and place theory\, and medical-psychiatric anthropology. Hart is affiliated with UCLA Global Studies\, Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities at the UCLA Semel Institute\, and teaches courses on violence\, urban anthropology\, borders and migration\, globalization and culture\, the anthropology of space and home\, the anthropology of art and architecture\, and contemporary social theory. \nRecommended Reading\n\nNo Milk\, No Love by Asia Bazdyrieva\nThe Case Against the Russian Federation by Oleksiy Radynski\n\n  \nAbout Kyiv to LA\nKyiv to LA is a joint exhibition and residency project that supports Ukrainian arts at a time when Ukrainian sovereignty and culture are under attack. Organized by Marathon Screenings and independent curator Asha Bukojemsky\, the initiative invites six Ukrainian artists and art historians to participate in a Los Angeles based residency\, culminating in a public program of talks\, screenings\, listening sessions and presentations. The project marks a unique and timely collaboration with several LA-based organizations and institutions including 18th Street Arts Center; Institute of Contemporary Arts\, Los Angeles (ICA LA); GRI Scholars Program; Villa Aurora Thomas Mann House (VATMH); The Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA; The Fulcrum; and Art at the Rendon. Additional programming hosted by e-flux in New York. Kyiv to LA is made possible by a generous grant from Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund. \nVenue\n\nBunche Hall\, Room 10383 (10th floor)\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Nearest parking to the event venue is Parking Structure 2 (P2). P2 rates: $3.00 – $15.00 (1 hour – all day). Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about how to pay. \n\n  \n  \nRelated Document: 20230420-Radynski-Bazdyrieva-poster-ln-rxz.pdf
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/yes-russia-is-still-an-empire-but-this-wont-last-long/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing a Way out of Communism
DESCRIPTION: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.\n  \n\nMartin Vopěnka (born 1963) \n\nCzech writer with Jewish roots and author of 25 book titles\nProfound thinker and visionary in books for adults\, a sensitive guide and teacher in books for children and youth\n\nHe’s been writing since his childhood\, despite being forced to study mathematics and physics during the communist era. Yet this unwanted education was later used in some of his novels. \nHis work received awards and recently\, a feature film was made based on one of his novels. His books were published in English\, German\, Italian\, Polish\, Russian\, Bulgarian\, Rumanian\, Slovakian\, French\, Arabic\, and Macedonian. \nVopěnka’s literature is distinguished by high sensitivity for the inner tension of an individual as well as for dangerous aspects of a whole society. Also for endangering our planet and our society. \nHis books for children and youth are among the most successful\, popular\, and appreciated in the Czech Republic. In them\, too\, he touches on serious topics in the belief that children are our good future and can do more than we think. \nOccasionally\, Vopěnka also devotes himself to poetry\, which he considers to be the highest verbal formation. Some of his poems have been published in English in online anthologies. \nDespite his steadily writing\, he makes his living as a publisher. He established his publishing house Prah (in Czech: Threshold) in 1990 – shortly after the Velvet Revolution. He engages also socially. Since 2003\, he is a chair of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers and during his time he considerably enhanced the prestige of this organization. Regularly\, he writes polemic articles for the newspapers. \nAuthor’s Website \n  \n“Vopěnka’s reputation as the next Milan Kundera is well cemented…” — Simon Ings\, The Times. \n  \n\nMy Brother the Messiah \nIf in the near future a new Messiah were to appear in the middle of Europe\, would people accept him? And would it prove possible to establish a new religion? \nIt is 2096\, and a state of drought has obtained for many years. The bed of the River Vltava has dried up. But hope exists thanks to a scientific project that fends off the sun’s rays in the stratosphere. Eli is born in the Prague district of Holešovice as the first rain is falling. \nIt is 2168\, and Marek\, Eli’s elder brother\, is in a Greek settlement close to Mount Olympus\, preaching to survivors of the worst exodus in human history. At this point\, only a staunch handful believe that martyred Eli was the Messiah. \n  \nThe latest novel by Czech writer and visionary Martin Vopěnka has the highest ambitions. Plausibly and with great sensitivity for the psychology of his characters\, the author shows how much pain\, love\, hate\, doubt and hope one life can bring\, when its subject appears capable of emulating the role in human history played by Jesus. In the opinion of the author\, although Jesus was not a miracle worker\, the mere fact that his legacy has survived to the present day is a miracle in itself. \nThe novel is set in two time frames\, the main one being in the year 2168. The scene is northern Greece\, not far from Mount Olympus\, where Marek\, brother of Eli\, the long-dead\, presumptive Messiah\, delivers a sermon to a modest gathering of Eli’s disciples. These followers are predominantly Czech: Eli\, too\, was a Czech. \nThis time\, the sermon is attended by a slim\, attractive girl. She gazes up at the ageing Marek (he is now over seventy) from the front row; after the sermon\, she follows him to his bungalow. Marek is used to the attention of women\, who usually come to him out of platonic love for Eli. But this girl\, Natalia\, takes him by surprise: her interest is in Marek himself\, specifically the story of his life at Eli’s side. \nMarek begins to talk – and so returns to the Prague district of Holešovice\, on the banks of the River Vltava\, where he was born in 2096. Eli was born in the same place in 2105. It is a time of climate catastrophe. Central Europe has been afflicted by drought for many years. The Vltava has practically dried up\, and Prague is deluged by refugees from the south. The country is ruled by a president who was democratically elected but is now an out-and-out dictator; as the president succeeds in maintaining order\, he has the support of the majority. Marek’s father is in the president’s employ. \nJust before Eli’s birth\, a significant breakthrough is achieved: world powers agree to place in the stratosphere a diffraction grating that should divert many of the sun’s rays\, so cooling the atmosphere. This project raises huge levels of expectation. Before long\, clouds really do appear. As the first rain falls\, Eli is born at a nearby clinic. \n  \nMarek’s father\, now a high-ranking officer in the dictator’s personal guard\, chooses this very moment to leave the family\, having found himself a new one. Marek’s sick\, obese mother is left to bring up her two sons alone. Around Eli\, things seem somehow to happen of their own accord. The family is apparently safe. Marek loves Eli from the first and feels a deep connection with him. He will live for him and him only until – aged over seventy – he meets Natalia. Though she is young and beautiful\, Natalia loves Marek – for himself\, not as the brother of the Messiah. This is a new situation for Marek\, and he is confused by it. Eli’s disciples are unhappy that their prophet is living with the young newcomer\, and they are concerned that he is neglecting his mission. \nThe book continues to switch between the storyline developing the psychology of Marek and Natalia’s love with a retrospective of the life of the Messiah. \nThe experiment with the grating has gone awry; a new ice age is sweeping into Europe from the north. The flow of refugees from south to north has been reversed. As states crumble\, the exodus is marked by a struggle for survival\, localized wars and killings. Although Eli performs no miracles\, his words have a strange strength\, attraction and power. The novel’s retrospective narration turns out to be a new gospel – a witness to the chosenness of the Messiah\, albeit one that is difficult to understand. Aged thirty\, Eli dies a martyr in Dubrovnik\, Croatia\, having fallen victim to wealthy Czechs whom he tried to convince of the need for modesty and humility\, although he knew how his entreaties would end. For the seventy-year-old Marek\, the memory of Eli’s death is still painful. The only true miracle foretold by Eli before his death is that those who fail to follow him will bear many fewer children or none at all. According to Eli\, the miracle of creation should not be taken for granted. \n  \nIt transpires that Natalia and Eli have something in common: she was born in Dubrovnik only weeks after Eli’s death. She has fled from her wealthy parents. \nThis ageing\, childless world is coming to an end. Is a new beginning on the horizon? A small number of Eli’s disciples have borne children; the hatred this inspires puts them at constant risk. Some senior rabbis fly from the state of Israel to speak with Marek. If they can prove that Eli was a Jew and so accept him as the Messiah\, the Jews will again bear children\, and again be the chosen people. The rabbis refer to the traditional Jewish belief in two Messiahs: the first unites the Jewish nation\, so effectively seeing out the old world\, while the second establishes a new unity. But a genetic test soon ascertains that Marek is not a Jew; in that case\, nor was Eli. The despondent rabbis return to their homeland\, all hope lost. \nOne day\, Natalia goes missing. Marek fears the worst: some of Eli’s disciples have refused to accept her presence among them. They may have abducted her; they may have killed her. Natalia has left several seemingly deliberate clues behind\, but Marek cannot make out their message. A st \nudent travels out from the city to help; in the story\, he has a spiritual kinship with Saul of Tarsus – it seems that he will be the one to take Eli’s teachings into the wider world. \nAs his life draws to its close\, Marek wishes to make a pilgrimage to Eli’s grave\, which overlooks Dubrovnik. If he has read the signs correctly\, Natalia will be there. In all likelihood\, her parents were behind her abduction. \nThe pilgrimage to Dubrovnik takes several months. On their way\, Marek and the student pass abandoned camps\, languishing settlements and half-empty palaces that were once homes of the mighty. The student writes down what Marek tells him about Eli – this will form the basis of his teachings. At last they are within sight of Eli’s grave\, where there is now a small shrine. Marek walks the last few steps alone. As he approaches the door\, he hears bitter weeping. On entering the shrine\, he sees a young woman with a new-born baby; it is she – Natalia – who is weeping. Between sobs\, she tells him: “He spoke to me. I met him.” Eli has appeared to her\, to tell her that her son will be the true Messiah. “Whose child is he?” asks Marek in confusion. “Yours and mine\, you silly thing!” Natalia answers. \n  \nThe novel My Brother the Messiah does not present a likely scenario for the future. But neither did the birth of Jesus – Jesus was born on the periphery of the world of that time. And if we do not believe that he turned water into wine\, walked on water\, brought Lazarus back from the dead and was the last of the last to be crucified\, leaving behind but a few hopeless disciples\, how did it happen that his teachings have survived in such powerful form as to become Europe’s dominant religion? It is this very unlikelihood in apparently helpless beginnings that Vopěnka’s novel’s captures with such virtuosity\, freshness and originality. In so doing\, he poses many questions on the future of humanity\, redemption and hope. \n\nSponsored by
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/writing-a-way-out-of-communism/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:“NAVALNY” AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RUSSIA'S FUTURE: A CONVERSATION WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST MARIA PEVCHIKH
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with investigative journalist Maria Pevchikh \n\nTuesday\, March 14\, 2023\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Pacific Time)\nPhysics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425 \n\nThe 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 UCLA School of Law invite you to “Navalny” and the Struggle for Russia’s Future: A Conversation with Investigative Journalist Maria Pevchikh. The event will take place in-person on Tuesday\, February 14\, 2023 at 6:00pm in Physics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425. \nRegistration required for attendance. \nSpeaker\nMaria Pevchikh is a Russian investigative journalist\, activist and head of the investigative unit of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Pevchikh is known for exposing high-level criminal activity in Russia. She studied at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University. In 2010 she moved to the United Kingdom\, where she graduated from the Faculty of Political Science of the London School of Economics. Maria Pevchikh gained media attention in 2020 after the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. She was one of the companions of Alexei Navalny during his trip across Russia when he was poisoned. [Source: Wikipedia]\nModerators\nDaniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California\, Los Angeles and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2021-22\, he is a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A graduate of Oxford University (B.A. Hons.) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1995)\, he has published five books and numerous articles in leading political science and economics and public affairs journals. His research focuses on Russian politics and economics as well as comparative political economy\, including in particular the analysis of democratization\, the politics of authoritarian states\, political decentralization\, and corruption. \nOleg Itskhoki is a professor of economics at University of California\, Los Angeles. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research\, and an Associate Editor at the American Economic Review. He was a participate of the 2009 Review of Economic Studies Tour\, a Sloan Research Fellow in 2015-2017\, and was on the list IMF’s list of 25 economists under 45. His areas of interest include globalization and labor markets\, and exchange rates and international relative prices. \nVenue\nPhysics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425\n430 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Nearest parking to the event venue is Parking Structure 2 (P2). P2 rates: $3.00 – $15.00 (1 hour – all day). Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about how to pay. \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA Russian Flagship Program\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/navalny-and-the-struggle-for-russias-future-a-conversation-with-investigative-journalist-maria-pevchikh/
LOCATION:1425 PAB Building
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-night-2/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture and Seminar by Peter Steiner
DESCRIPTION: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 Havel’s and Steiner’s publications. Light refreshments will be provided. We encourage you to read the digest and/or paper draft before attendance. \nDigest | Draft Paper \nThere will also be a graduate seminar with Peter Steiner on Slavic Literary Theory on Tuesday\, March 14th at 5:15pm in 305 Kaplan Hall. Everyone is welcome to attendance\, no registration is required. \n“The Unsung Hero” is a detailed analysis of Havel’s most famous political essay “The Power of the Powerless” focusing on its main character\, a hapless greengrocer who\, according to Havel was forced by those in power to display in his shop window an ideological slogan “Proletarians of all lands unite!” This message\, however\, was utterly alien to him; thus\, he acquiesced to “living a lie [žít ve lži].” The essay questions both the content of the Marxist catchphrase Havel’s vendor was supposedly forced to foist on his customers as well as his motivation for doing so.\n\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/peter-steiner/
LOCATION:Young Research Library – Main Conference Room 11360
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:One Year of War in Ukraine Candlelight Vigil
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/one-year-of-war-in-ukraine-candlelight-vigil/
LOCATION:Bruin Plaza
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SUMMARY:Maslenitsa
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/maslenitsa/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:How the Soviet Jew Was Made - Sasha Senderovich
DESCRIPTION: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 character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. \n\n\n\n\nAfter the revolution of 1917\, Jews who had previously lived in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement quickly exited the shtetls\, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities in different parts of the new Bolshevik state\, others for Europe\, America\, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East\, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews\, Soviet modernity meant freedom\, the possibility of the new\, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. \nThis ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature\, films\, and reportage\, Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew\, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape. \n\nBio: \n\n\nSasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Jackson School of International Studies\, and a faculty affiliate at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Together with Harriet Murav\, he translated\, from the Yiddish\, David Bergelson’s novel Judgment (Northwestern University Press\, 2017). Together with Harriet Murav\, he is currently working on In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union\, a collection of stories by several different authors translated from both Yiddish and Russian. He has also published on contemporary Soviet-born immigrant Jewish authors in America. His first monograph\, How the Soviet Jew Was Made\, was published by Harvard University Press in 2022. In addition to scholarly work\, he has also published essays on literary\, cultural\, and political topics in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the New York Times\, the Forward\, Lilith\, Jewish Currents\, the Stranger\, and the New Republic.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[gravityform id=”41″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please contact slavic@humnet.ucla.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nCosponsored by The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, The 1939 Society Chair in Holocaust Studies and The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature \n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/7121/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Klondike Screening
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/klondike-screening/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, 235 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party & Showcase Event
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our annual Holiday Party & Showcase event on Wednesday\, November 30th at 6:00pm in 314 Royce Hall. Join us for an evening of cultural festivities including musical performances\, poetry recitations\, skits\, and more! Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-showcase-event/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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UID:7101-1668099600-1668099600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Lecture on Romanian Literature as East European Literature
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-lecture-on-romanian-literature-as-east-european-literature/
LOCATION:2238 Public Affairs Building\, UCLA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T173000
DTSTAMP:20221103T212207Z
CREATED:20221103T212051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T212207Z
UID:7107-1668009600-1668015000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:From Beverly Hills Brat to Red Wave
DESCRIPTION:From Beverly Hills Brat to Red Wave\nJoanna Stingray and the Underground Soviet Rock Scene of the Late Cold War\nInternational Education Week\n  \n\nJoanna Stingray\n\nWednesday\, November 9\, 2022\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM\nHybrid format: Bunche Hall 10383\, UCLA & Zoom\n\n\n\nA Conversation Followed by a Q&A Session \nJoanna Stingray is an author and musician from Los Angeles\, California\, who lived for many years in Russia. In 1984\, while touring in the Soviet Union\, she met and befriended Boris Grebenschikov\, a revered musical poet (who many Soviets called the ‘Russian Dylan’) and soon became the first American producer of underground Russian rock n’ roll when she released the double album Red Wave — 4 Underground Bands from the U.S.S.R.\, a compilation of music smuggled out of the U.S.S.R. by Joanna in 1985. A frequent traveler in and out of Russia\, Joanna was interrogated by the KGB and FBI (both thought she was a spy) and in 1987\, she became an enemy of the State — her visa blocked to keep her from entering the Soviet Union to marry Leningrad guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. After months of intervention by the U.S. State Department\, she returned to Russia\, married Yuri and in the early ‘90s became a television host\, a recording artist\, and well known rock personality throughout Russia. She has published several books in Russia about her time in the music scene as well as much of her photo collection. Her video diaries and interviews of bands and their musicians is the only archive of this clandestine\, bygone world. \nStingray on NBC Left Field: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0SWbA_1YI \nInterview with Joanna Stingray in LA Review of Books: \nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-decadent-western-thing-a-conversation-with-joanna-stingray \n  \nRed Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground \nJoanna Stingray’s inspiring and poetic memoir\, written with her singer/songwriter daughter Madison\, introduces Western audiences to the legendary musicians of Soviet rock through her improbable Cold War heroics as a young New Wave musician who\, in 1985\, produced Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR with music by her new friends that she had smuggled to the West. This is her incredible testimony of youthful fortitude and rebellion\, her love story\, and proof of the power of music and youth culture over stagnancy and oppression. \n\nRock is for young people. It’s an opportunity to open up a road into the future and breathe deeper. And all thoughtful people understand that it’s not just young people fooling around. They are captivated by this music. If some of our rock bands like Aquarium and Kino were released in the West on the Red Wave album in June 1986\, why shouldn’t they have been released in Russia? \n– President Mikhail Gorbachev\, 2019\, reflecting on his decision that led to the Red Wave bands being allowed to become “official” by 1987 \n  \nSponsor(s): UCLA Russian Flagship Program\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Center for World Languages
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/from-beverly-hills-brat-to-red-wave/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221104T200000
DTSTAMP:20221102T161820Z
CREATED:20221102T161743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T161820Z
UID:7091-1667584800-1667592000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Grandson Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n \nThe Grandson (2022) – International Trailer from Kristof Deak on Vimeo. \nPlease RSVP by contacting Melinda Borbely.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-grandson-film-screening/
LOCATION:Dodd 147
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Borbely":MAILTO:melindaborbely@ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T193000
DTSTAMP:20221007T193419Z
CREATED:20221007T193414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T193419Z
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SUMMARY:“Either you are afraid\, or you write”:  A conversation with Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin
DESCRIPTION:Followed by a bilingual reading by the author and his translator\, Max Lawton\, and Q&A \nLanguages: English and Russian\n  \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED –– CLICK HERE\n\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, together with the UCLA Russian Flagship\, will host a conversation and a bi-lingual reading by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin on Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, at 6:00 PM. The event will be held on the UCLA campus in A51 Kaplan Hall. A conversation will be followed by a bilingual reading by the author and his translator\, Max Lawton\, and Q&A. \nLA Review of Books reviews Sorokin’s recent novels in translation here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russians-finest-metaphysician-on-vladimir-sorokin-their-four-hearts-and-telluria/. \nVladimir Sorokin was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas and then turned to art and writing\, becoming a major presence in the 1980s Moscow underground. His work was banned in the Soviet Union\, and his first novel\, The Queue\, was published in France by the famed émigré dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in 1983. In 1992\, Sorokin’s Their Four Hearts was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize.  The publication of his controversial novel Blue Lard (1999)\, which included a sex scene between Stalin and Khrushchev\, led to public demonstrations against the book and demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer; in 2001\, he received the Andrei Bely Award for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. Sorokin also wrote the screenplays for the films Moscow\, The Kopeck\, and 4\, and the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov’s Rosenthal’s Children\, the first opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater since the 1970s. Sorokin has written numerous plays and short stories and his work has been translated into more than 30 languages. His most recent books are Doctor Garin (2021)  and De feminisi (2022).  \nMax Lawton is a translator\, novelist and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen’s College\, Oxford\, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Céline and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin and also translated the works of Jonathan Littell from French and Christian Kracht from German. Lawton is also the author of a novel and two collections of stories currently in publication and is writing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on phenomenology and the 20th-century novel. He lives in Los Angeles and is a member of four noise-music ensembles.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/either-you-are-afraid-or-you-write-a-conversation-with-russian-writer-vladimir-sorokin/
LOCATION:A51 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T170000
DTSTAMP:20221007T172110Z
CREATED:20221007T172109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T172110Z
UID:7059-1665669600-1665680400@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Screening of the Polish movie "Man of Marble"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nA young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut\, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-the-polish-movie-man-of-marble/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T213000
DTSTAMP:20220801T154346Z
CREATED:20220729T224144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220801T154346Z
UID:6975-1664474400-1664487000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Documentary Screening and Q&A: "F@ck This Job" a.k.a. "Tango with Putin"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION REQUIRED – CLICK HERE\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures will host a special screening of the documentary F@ck This Job (titled Tango with Putin on BBC) on Thursday\, September 29\, 2022 at 6:00 PM. The screening will be held on the UCLA campus in A51 Kaplan Hall. Immediately following the screening\, Professor Lilya Kaganovsky will lead an in-person Q&A with director Vera Krichevskaya and journalist Natalya Sindeeva. \nTo view the official trailer for the film\, click here. \nFeatured Guests \n\nVera Krichevskaya is a co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and an award-winning television director and producer who has held numerous roles at NTV Channel\, ICTV Channel and 24DOC TV. Her feature documentaries include F@ck This Job (2021)\, The Case (2018)\,The Man Who Was Too Free (2016)\, and The Citizen Poet (2012). In 2013\, Vera was a World Press Institute Fellow. \n\n  \nNatalya Sindeeva is a co-founder\, main owner\, and chief executive officer of the Dozhd TV (TV Rain) Media Holding\, which includes Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and the Republic.ru online magazine. Sindeeva is also the co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station; founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award; and three-time laureate of the “Media Manager of Russia” prize. She is an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio\, and in 2016 became a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for the Protection of Human Rights.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/documentary-screening/
LOCATION:A51 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T130000
DTSTAMP:20220920T030822Z
CREATED:20220824T011439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T030822Z
UID:7011-1663761600-1663765200@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come join our faculty\, advisor and fellow students to learn more about the majors/ minors and our Russian Flagship Program! \nLight refreshments provided
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-open-house/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T200000
DTSTAMP:20220429T214629Z
CREATED:20220418T191334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T214629Z
UID:6851-1653674400-1653681600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:End of Year Talent Show Event
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/celebrations-across-cultures/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T133000
DTSTAMP:20220418T201508Z
CREATED:20220418T155911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T201508Z
UID:6843-1651579200-1651584600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture "Translating Erased Histories"
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Maureen Freely University of Warwick \n \nRSVP here
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/michael-henry-heim-memorial-lecture-translating-erased-histories/
LOCATION:webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T150000
DTSTAMP:20220429T215312Z
CREATED:20220429T215312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T215312Z
UID:6888-1651309200-1651330800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:25th Annual UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 30\, 2022\n(**All times are in Pacific Standard Time**)\n  \nConference organizers: Cooper Lynn\, Jeffrey Riggs\nFaculty advisor: Susan Kresin \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu \n9:00-9:10 am Opening Remarks: Ronald Vroon\, Chair of the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \n____________________________________________________________ \n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel A: The Contemporary Russian State & Character                          Chair: Yana Demeshko \n\nCamille Lanese (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Role of the Soviet Union in the Atmosphere of Corruption in Putin’s Russia.”\nYueun Kang (she/her/hers\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “Russian Stoicism: Toward a Critical Perspective.”\nOleksandra Stogniy (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Health and Health Seeking Behaviors in Modern Russian Reproductive Healthcare.”\n\n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel B: Russian Literature of the Long 19th Century\nChair: Polina Varfolomeeva \n\nAkela Spears (she/her\, USC)\, “Hope Unrealizable\, Ideal Undesirable: An Intertextual Analysis of Alyosha Karamazov and Sonya Marmeladovna.”\nMollie Brown (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Literary Responses to the Legal Reforms of Tsar Alexandr II: A Progressive Move for Russia\, But Was It Enough?”\nCharles Smith (Columbia University)\, “Zero Is a Bomb: Time and Historical Development in Lenin and Bely.”\n\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:20-10:40 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel A: 21st Century Activism & Politics\nChair: Cate Hwang \n\nAlexis Hill (she/her\, UCLA)\, “A Comparison of LGBT Activism and its Effects in Russia and the Czech Republic.”\nNina Vukcevic (she/ her\, UCLA)\, “The Struggle for Serbia: The Power of Grassroots Organizing for Environmental Justice in Serbia.”\nEdna Bella Salčin (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Consequences of Genocide Denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”\n\n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel B: Russian Music & Film\nChair: Lydia Roberts \n\nMaria Torpey (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Alexandra\, can you breathe in Moscow?’: Nostalgia and the Soundtrack of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979).”\nIsana Raja (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Your American Music is Shit’: How the Soundtracks of Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000) Play into Russian Nationalism and Anti-Foreigner Sentiment.”\nMark Berezov (he/him/his\, UCSD)\, “Andrei Tarkovsky\, Vadim Yusov\, and Georgy Rerberg: a Case Study in the Cinematography of Ivan’s Childhood (1962) and Mirror (1975).”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n11:40-12:30 LUNCH BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n12:30-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel A: Literature and Culture of the Soviet & Post-Soviet Periods\nChair: Catherine Pasternack \n\nJonah Lounds (they/them/theirs\, UC Berkeley)\, “Clothing for Crocodiles and the Creation of a Parentless World in Late-Soviet Children’s Animations.”\nAnastasia Izmailova (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Resisting Identity Suppression through the Act of Writing in Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s 1984.”\n\n12:00-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel B: The Putin Era\nChair: Jeffrey Riggs \n\nJack Hohn (UCSD)\, “‘Wars have not diminished’: An Analysis of Putin’s 2007 Munich Speech in a Contemporary Context.\nKyle Tucker (he/him/his\, Indiana University)\, “The Evolving Nature of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Doctrine.”\nKurtis Yan (he/him\, UCLA)\, “Dyad of Vladimirs: The Eastern Orthodox Church as a Political Actor from Kievan Rus’ to Contemporary Russia.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n1:30-1:50 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n\n1:50-2:50pm Session 4: Russia and its Influence: Diaspora\, Investment\, Meddling\nChair: Cooper Lynn \n\nMoriah Thomas (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Russia’s Influence on Immigration and Immigration Practices in Ukraine\, Kazakhstan\, and Their Neighbors.”\nJuliette Oliver (she/they\, UCLA)\, “Angola Then and Now: Investigating Soviet and Russian Intervention in the Country.”\nMax Hazerjian (he/him\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “The World of ‘Russian’ Harbin: Armenians in China’s Russian Diaspora.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n2:50 pm Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates: Larry McLellan\, Department of Germanic\, Slavic\,\n& Semitic Studies\, UCSB\n  \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/25th-annual-uc-undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-and-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T193000
DTSTAMP:20220302T222600Z
CREATED:20220302T222559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T222600Z
UID:6800-1646416800-1646422200@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-night/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T200000
DTSTAMP:20211004T165237Z
CREATED:20211004T165237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T165237Z
UID:6679-1634234400-1634241600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"The Amazing Breuer" Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles\nis delighted to invite you to an opening of the exhibition\n“THE AMAZING BREUER\,” Czech Surgeon at the Birth of American Scientifiction\,\ncommemorating the 76th anniversary of a passing of the Czech-American writer Miles (Miloslav) J. Breuer (1889-1945)\, who died in Los Angeles. \nThe exhibition will be opened personally by Amb. Jaroslav Olša\, Jr.\, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles\,\nwho is the author of books on science fiction and will introduce this early science fiction writer. \nTIME:\nThursday\, October 14th\, 2021 from 6pm until 8pm. \nExhibition will be on a display through mid-January\, 2022. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nAttend our exhibition to learn more about the early Czech-American science fiction author Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer (1889-1945). Breuer is also the author of the novel “Paradise and Iron” (1930)\, one of the first modern science fiction tales to warn of the dangers of a technologically oriented civilization\, depicting a humanity threatened by what we today call artificial intelligence\, and the co-author of The Girl from Mars\, a thin 24 page work that became the first book in the world to be formally titled as science fiction. He also co-wrote two novels with Jack Williamson. At the turn of the 1920s and 30s\, Breuer’s readers viewed this author as a major star of the science fiction genre. Discovered by Hugo Gernsbeck\, Breuer contributed to “The Amazing Stories” and other pulp magazines.  He was born in Chicago to the Czech parents. Writing as “Miloslav” – the Czech version of his name – Breuer had published numerous stories also in Czech language (which were subsequently published in English in early science fiction magazines). \n\nLOCATION:\nConsulate General of the Czech Republic\n10990 Wilshire Blvd\, Suite 1100\nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 \nRSVP: \nDue to limited space an RSVP is mandatory and admission passes will be allocated based on the first RSVPs received. Please confirm your attendance by Monday\, October 11\, 2021 at: czechconsulatela@gmail.com\nPlease note still existing Covid-19 procedures at the Consulate. By accepting this invitation you are confirming that you are fully vaccinated. Guests who are exempt from COVID-19 vaccinations due to a protected exemption should contact Consulate beforehand. Masks are advised. \nPARKING: \nPlease note that there is PAID parking in the building of 10990 Wilshire Blvd\, but the Consulate CANNOT VALIDATE. Thus we highly recommend street parking around the building. \nConsulate General of the Czech Republic\n10990 Wilshire Blvd.\, Suite 1100\nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 \nTel.: (310) 473-0889\nFax: (310) 473-9813\nE-mail: losangeles@embassy.mzv.cz\nWeb: www.mzv.cz/losangeles
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-amazing-breuer-exhibition/
LOCATION:Consultate General of the Czech Republic\, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.\, Suite 1100\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T140000
DTSTAMP:20210915T165638Z
CREATED:20180706T182754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T165638Z
UID:5080-1632315600-1632319200@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Department Open House (2021)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlease RSVP here.\n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/open-house-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T190000
DTSTAMP:20210723T221653Z
CREATED:20210722T222350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210723T221653Z
UID:6639-1628186400-1628190000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Information Session on Russian-related Opportunities at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/information-session-on-russian-related-opportunities-at-ucla/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T210000
DTSTAMP:20210723T170601Z
CREATED:20210723T170601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210723T170601Z
UID:6644-1627671600-1627678800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Interview with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, the Leader of the Belarusian Pro Democracy Movement
DESCRIPTION:Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces\, is visiting the United States for the first time this July. Currently exiled\, Tsikhanouskaya was the opposition candidate in the contested Belarusian presidential election on August 9\, 2020\, against President Alexander Lukashenko. \nAs part of her diplomatic visit to the U.S.\, Tsikhanouskaya will be interviewed by Dr. Sasha Razor at the Wende Museum\, with an introduction by Joes Segal\, the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. \nThe interview will be live-streamed via Zoom. \nFree. RSVP Here.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/interview-with-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-the-leader-of-the-belarusian-pro-democracy-movement/
LOCATION:webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T200000
DTSTAMP:20210427T222914Z
CREATED:20210427T222914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T222914Z
UID:6582-1622224800-1622232000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multicultural Performance Night (2021)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/multicultural-performance-night-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T130000
DTSTAMP:20210507T214452Z
CREATED:20210507T214452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210507T214452Z
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SUMMARY:Putin's Global Ambitions in the Face of a New U.S. Administration
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with political scientists and Russia experts Kathryn Stoner & Daniel Treisman \nWednesday\, May 26\, 2021\n11:00 AM (Pacific Time)\nWebinar\n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n**After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please note\, you will only be able to join the webinar at the specified time and date.  \n  \nABOUT THE WEBINAR\nIf you register for and attend a Burkle Center webinar\, you will not be seen or heard via video or audio\, but may submit questions via the Q&A form at the bottom of your screen. \nIn addition to the webinar\, we will be livestreaming this event on the Burkle Center’s YouTube page. The YouTube livestream will be available below at the start of the event. Please note: While YouTube allows you to watch the event in real time\, you will only be able to ask questions if you register and attend through the webinar link above. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS\n  \nKathryn Stoner is the deputy director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law\, and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at Stanford\, and in the Program on International Relations\, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004\, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years\, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. At Princeton she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University\, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington\, DC. \nIn addition to many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia\, she is the author or co-editor of six books\, including Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order\, published in February\, 2021. She received a BA (1988) and MA (1989) in Political Science from the University of Toronto\, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University (1995). In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Iliad State University\, Tbilisi\, Republic of Georgia. \n  \nDaniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California\, Los Angeles and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. \nHe was educated at Oxford University (BA Hons. 1986) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1995). Treisman’s work focuses on Russian politics and economics and comparative political economy. He has published four books and many articles in leading political science and economics journals including The American Political Science Review and The American Economic Review\, as well as in the public affairs journals Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. A former interim lead editor of The American Political Science Review\, he has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\, and as acting director of UCLA’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies. In Russia\, he is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Jury of the National Prize in Applied Economics. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)\, and has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the US and the Smith Richardson Foundation. His latest book\, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (The Free Press\, 2011) was one of the Financial Times’ Best Political Books of 2011. \n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nKal Raustiala holds the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA School of Law and is a Professor at the UCLA International Institute\, where he teaches in the undergraduate program on Global Studies. He has served as the Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations since 2007. \n\nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA Russian Flagship Center\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/putins-global-ambitions-in-the-face-of-a-new-u-s-administration/
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SUMMARY:Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 7\, 2021\n12:00 PM (Pacific Time)\nZoom Webinar \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n** After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom webinar. Please note\, you will only be able to join the webinar at the specified time and date. \nWhites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia’s encounter with viniculture and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century\, embraced by Peter the Great\, and then magnified many times over by the annexation of the indigenous wine economies and cultures of Georgia\, Crimea\, and Moldova in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries\, viniculture and winemaking became an important indicator of Russia’s place at the European table. While the Russian Revolution in 1917 left many of the empire’s vineyards and wineries in ruins\, it did not alter the political and cultural meanings attached to wine. Stalin himself embraced champagne as part of the good life of socialism\, and the Soviet Union became a winemaking superpower in its own right\, trailing only Spain\, Italy\, and France in the volume of its production.\nWhites and Reds illuminates the ideas\, controversies\, political alliances\, technologies\, business practices\, international networks\, and\, of course\, the growers\, vintners\, connoisseurs\, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries. Because wine was domesticated by virtue of imperialism\, its history reveals many of the instabilities and peculiarities of the Russian and Soviet empires. Over two centuries\, the production and consumption patterns of peripheral territories near the Black Sea and in the Caucasus became a hallmark of Russian and Soviet civilizational identity and cultural refinement. Wine in Russia was always more than something to drink. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nStephen V. Bittner is Professor of History at Sonoma State University. He is the author of The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat and the editor of Dmitrii Shepilov’s memoir\, The Kremlin’s Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev. \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nBrian J. Griffith is the inaugural Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History at University of California\, Los Angeles. His interests include modern Europe\, modern Italy\, Fascism\, consumerism\, (trans)national identities\, and the digital humanities. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nInterwar Crisis: Europe\, 1918-1939 is the public facing\, student authored weblog of a modern European history course which is being taught by Dr. Brian J Griffith at University of California\, Los Angeles during the Spring 2021 quarter (March 29-June 11\, 2021). The course\, which shares the same name as this Open Access volume\, explores the various political\, economic\, social\, and cultural upheavals which took place in Europe between the two world wars\, and asks its participants to consider the various parallels between developments during the 1920s and 1930s and today’s international community. \nCost : Free and open to the public. Registration required at above link. \nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, Program on Central Asia\, UCLA Russian Flagship Center\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/whites-and-reds-a-history-of-wine-in-the-lands-of-tsar-and-commissar/
LOCATION:webinar
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS\nYou are invited to participate in the 24th Annual University of California Undergraduate\nConference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies. The conference will be held on\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021\, and it will be hosted virtually over Zoom by the UCLA Department\nof Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nPURPOSE\nOne of the great benefits of knowing a foreign language is being able to use source materials\nin that language. This conference gives students the opportunity to integrate their language\nskills with research on some aspect of Slavic or East/Central European studies and to present\ntheir work in a collegially critical and at the same time friendly and supportive environment.\nPresenting a conference paper is an ideal way to strengthen graduate school applications or\nadd an academic component to your résumé. In addition\, those interested have the opportunity\nto submit their papers for peer-reviewed publication in the on-line UC Journal of Slavic and\nEast/Central European Studies\n(https://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/undergraduate-journal/ ). \nTOPICS\nYour presentation may be an extension of a paper written for a course in Slavic or\nEast/Central European studies or a project related to your personal interests. You may work\nalone or jointly with another student. Instructors from your campus Slavic\, Russian or\nEast/Central European Studies program will serve as project advisors. Any undergraduate\nenrolled in a Slavic or East/Central European language\, literature\, linguistics\, history\, political\nscience\, music\, folklore\, or other relevant course may participate. Graduate students are\ninvited to serve as panel moderators. \nREQUIREMENTS\nThe presentation must incorporate some materials in a Slavic or other East/Central European\nor Eurasian language. Your level of proficiency will determine the extent to which foreign\nlanguage materials should be used. For example\, beginning students might incorporate titles\nof books or articles or place names in the original Slavic language; intermediate students\nmight read some passages in the original from relevant sources; advanced students might base\ntheir paper on sources in the given language. Individual presentations should be 10-15\nminutes in length; joint presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please note that you\nmust have a faculty advisor from your campus who can commit to doing a practice run\nwith you. \nINFORMATION\nFor more information\, please contact a Slavic studies faculty member on your campus\,\nor write to the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and\nCultures at UCLA: slavic@humnet.ucla.edu \nIN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE\nIf you would like to participate in the conference\, please submit a proposal (a title\, a threefour-sentence description\, and your advisor’s name and email address) to the conference website at https://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/participate/ by\nFriday\, March 19\, 2021. \nBy Friday\, April 2\, 2021 \, you must submit the following information to the conference\nwebsite:\n1) your name as you would like it to appear in the conference program\n2) your email address ; unless you request otherwise\, this will be included in the\nconference program\n3) your school and major(s)/minor(s)\n4) the exact title of your presentation\n5) an abstract (250 words) ; this is a paragraph describing the topic of your paper. It\nwill be included in the conference program. \nYou are required to practice your presentation with your advisor virtually by Friday\, April\n16\, 2021 . \nFurthermore\, by Friday\, April 16\, 2021 \, you must send your final presentation to the\nconference website. All participants must have a visual component to their presentation such\nas a Powerpoint\, Keynote\, or Prezi presentation. You will meet with your panel and moderator\nto practice the format of your presentations on Zoom in the weeks preceding the conference. \nDEADLINES\nFriday\, March 19\, 2021 : Submission of proposal to a faculty advisor from your campus and\nto the conference website.\nFriday\, April 2\, 2021 : Submission of paper title\, and short abstract to the conference website.\nFriday\, April 16\, 2021: Presentation practice with an advisor and submission of Powerpoint\,\nKeynote\, or Prezi slides to the conference website.\nDate of the conference: Saturday\, April 24\, 2021\, hosted virtually over Zoom.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/24th-annual-undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Kresin":MAILTO:kresin@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Russian Flagship Alumna Melissa Miller '19
DESCRIPTION:Hear about Melissa’s various experiences in the former Soviet space\, including on RLASP in Kazakhstan\, and on CLS in Kyrgyztan! Check out her blog with travel guides and Russian language resources here. \nTo RSVP and receive the Zoom link for the event\, please email Leanna Kramer (lkramer@international.ucla.edu).
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-russian-flagship-alumna-melissa-miller-19/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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