Annual Holiday Party & Showcase Event
314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAWe 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!
Klondike Screening
James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CARSVP
How the Soviet Jew Was Made – Sasha Senderovich
306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CAIn 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...
Maslenitsa
348 Kaplan Hall 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAOne Year of War in Ukraine Candlelight Vigil
Bruin PlazaLecture 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 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...
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) 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...
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 troubled times? As he launches his new novel MY BROTHER THE MESSIAH, Martin Vopěnka leads us into the mindset of current Slavic writing. Martin...