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SUMMARY:The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka
DESCRIPTION:THE HISTORY OF BELARUSIAN VYZHYVANKA \non March 3th at 1 pm \nhttp://bit.ly/uclabelarus \n  \nKeynote address by Rufina Bazlova\, a Prague–based Belarusian artist\, followed by a discussion by Nadzeya Norton\, Antonina Stebur\, and Alisa Lozhkina. \nThe online panel will be moderated by Dr. Sasha Razor\, a recent alumna of UCLA’s Department Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies and exhibition curator. \nThis program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and Chrysalis Mag \nRegistration is required. To receive the link to join\, please register here: http://bit.ly/uclabelarus \n  \nLink to the recent radio interview with the artist (8 min.): https://english.radio.cz/belarusian-artist-prague-embroiders-anti-lukashenko-protests-ward-bad-spirits-8689198 \nRecently published interview in Chrystalis Mag with Rufina Bazlova: https://chrysalismag.by/project/rufina-bazlova-the-history-of-belarusian-vyzhyvanka \nFor more information about Belarus\, please check the UCLA Library research guide: Protest and Politics in Belarus. \nThe information on current political state of Belarus can be found in the article entitled: “The Lesson of Belarus” by Sasha Razor\, PhD. \n  \nABOUT \nOn August 9\, 2020\, peaceful decentralized protests erupted across the Republic of Belarus to contest the falsified presidential election results. The unprecedented scale of public mobilization caused the illegitimate dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka to quip that these protests were directed by Czech puppeteers who allegedly manipulated them from Prague. Lukashenka’s propaganda uses the metaphor of puppeteers and marionettes to discredit the frontwomen and -men of the protests and thus deprive them of their agency. The rhetorical trope of the Czech puppeteer later became the subject of many memes within Belarus. This exhibition responds to this discourse by presenting the work of Rufina Bazlova\, a Prague-based Belarusian artist whose comic embroidery series “The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka” went viral within the first days of the protests. The medium of traditional embroidery is a widespread transnational phenomenon that uses elements of folk culture as a national commodity and marker of belonging. Belarusian embroideries are a specific code for recording information about the lives of the nation. Bazlova utilizes this medium to narrate the ongoing saga of the Belarusian uprising\, where each tableau corresponds to an actual event that took place during the last four months of the protests. \nVyzhyvanka is a pun combining two Belarusian words\, “embroidery” and “survival.” \nVyshyvanka means “embroidered shirt.” \nVyzhyvat’ means “to survive.” \n  \nMEET OUR PANELISTS: \n  \nRufina Bazlova is a Prague-based multi-genre artist who works in illustration\, comics\, artist books\, puppet making\, scenography\, performance\, and costume design. Bazlova gained an international profile for her series “The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka\,” which uses the traditional folk cross-stitch medium to depict the ongoing peaceful protests in Belarus\, her home country. Rufina holds her undergraduate degree in Stage Design from the Theatre Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) and the MgA degree in Illustration and Graphic Design from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia. Together with her colleagues from DAMU\, she founded a creative group of puppeteers called Sleď Pod Kožichem (Herring Beneath the Fur Coat). Their play “RAW” was nominated for the Greenhorn Award at the prestigious Figura Theatre Festival in Baden (Switzerland) in 2020. \n  \nNadzeya Norton is a Belarusian activist\, ethnographer\, social and cultural anthropologist located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Minsk (Belarus)\, Nadzeya has graduated from Belarusian State University in Minsk with an MA degree in history and developed and taught the course of “Belarusian History and Culture” at the Southwestern College in Kansas while she was a visiting scholar of the Center for Belarusian studies. Since 2016\, Nadzeya has concentrated her efforts on promoting\, preserving\, and developing Belarusian culture\, tradition\, and history in California. She’s the producer of “Etna-tradycyja\,” an organization aimed at popularizing music folklore. During the last Presidential campaign in Belarus\, Norton became the leader of the Belarusian community in the SF Bay Area and organized the largest protest events (rallies\, meetings\, marches\, art exhibitions\, performance\, etc.) on the west coast to express solidarity and support protest actions in Belarus. \n  \nAntonina Stebur is a Minsk and Moscow-based curator and researcher. She studied visual and cultural studies at the European Humanities University in Vilnius\, Lithuania\, and at the School of Engaged Art of the art group “Chto Delat?” [What is to be done?] in Saint Petersburg\, Russia. She is a member of the artist group #damaudobnayavbytu [Woman convenient in everyday life]\, which examines the feminist agenda in the Belarusian and post-Soviet context in general. She has curated several exhibitions in Belarus\, Russia\, Poland\, France\, and China. Antonina is a member of a research group AGITATSIA dedicated to political performance art practices\, actionism\, and art activism. Together with Anna Samarskaya\, she authored the book The History of Belarusian photography (2019). Her research areas and curatorial interests include community\, re-composition of everyday practices\, feminist critique\, a new sensibility\, grassroots initiatives\, post-Soviet\, political art\, performance\, and art-activism. \n  \nAlisa Lozhkina is an independent Ukrainian curator\, art historian\, and critic currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010-2016 she was the editor in chief of the major Ukrainian art magazine ART UKRAINE. In 2013-2016 she served as a Deputy Director of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Lozhkina curated seven large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art\, including “Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Now” at Ludwig Museum\, Budapest\, which\, which was nominated for Global Fine Art Awards (New York\, USA) as one of the best museum exhibitions of post-war and contemporary art in 2018. Additionally\, Lozhkina is known as the author of the following books: Point Zero. The Newest History of Ukrainian Contemporary Art (Сo-authored with Oleksandr Solovyov\, 2010) and Permanent Revolution: Art in Ukraine\, the 20th to the Early 21st Century\, which was published in Ukrainian\, French\, and\, most recently\, in English. Alisa is currently an ABD in Comparative History at Central European University (Vienna-Budapest). She is writing her dissertation on the interconnection of art and revolutions in recent Ukrainian history. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Alena Aissing: aaissing@library.ucla.edu
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-history-of-belarusian-vyzhyvanka/
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SUMMARY:Robot is 100!
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the International Studies at the UCLA Charles E. Young Library\, I am delighted to invite you to attend a webinar entitled: \n\nROBOT IS 100! \non February 4th at 12:00 pm \nRegistration at: http://bit.ly/ucla-robotis100 \n  \n100 years ago\, Czech writer Karel Čapek published his iconic drama R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)\, which introduced the word “robot” to the world. \n The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles and the UCLA Library coordinated this virtual panel discussion “Robot is 100!” exploring the influence of the sci-fi play – “R.U.R.” on many art forms and the future of robotics. \nLearn more about the future of artificial intelligence with distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience\, and Pediatrics at USC and the founding director of the USC Robotic and Autonomous Systems Center Ms. Maja Matarić\, and two established science fiction writers Mr. Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Mr. Jaroslav Veis\, who will discuss the heritage of Karel Čapek’s revolutionary play R.U.R.  \nThe online panel will be moderated by the Czech Consul General Amb. Jaroslav Olša\, Jr. who is also an editor of numerous anthologies of science fiction including ROBOT100\, a collection of stories by primarily Czech writers inspired by R. U. R.  \nTo further explore more on this topic\, please visit the UCLA Library’s virtual exhibit Robot is 100! Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. and the Robot in Pop Culture. \nYou can get more information about Karel Čapek’s life and R.U.R. in a complementary UCLA Library Research Guide. \nEnjoy an audio created by the BBC Sounds: “The Robots are Us.” This BBC Radio Documentary features\, among other scholars\, Jesse Brown O’Dell\, PhD. graduate from the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nThis program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nRegistration is required. To receive the link to join\, please register here: \nhttp://bit.ly/ucla-robotis100 \nMEET OUR PANELISTS: \n  \nMaja Mataric´– Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience\, and Pediatrics at USC\, founding director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center and interim Vice President of Research at USC. Her PhD and MS are from MIT\, BS from the University of Kansas. She is Fellow of AAAS\, IEEE\, and AAAI\, recipient of the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Science\, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring from President Obama\, the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award\, NSF Career Award\, MIT TR35 Innovation Award\, and IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems Early Career Awards.  She has a long history of being active in K-12 STEM and diversity outreach. A pioneer of socially assistive robotics\, her team’s research is developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for convalescence\, rehabilitation\, training\, and education that have been validated in autism\, stroke\, Alzheimer’s\, healthy elderly\, and many other domains (robotics.usc.edu/interaction/).  She is also co-founder of Embodied\, Inc. \nAlvaro Zinos-Amaro  Alvaro is a Hugo and Locus finalist with some forty stories published in professional magazines and numerous anthologies\, including Analog\, Galaxy’s Edge\, Lightspeed\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, Nature\, and volumes such as The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy\, Cyber World\, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories\, Humanity 2.0\, This Way to the End Times\, Shades Within Us\, The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison\, 18 Wheels of Science Fiction\, Overruled!\, It Came from the Multiplex\, and Seasons Between Us (forthcoming). Alvaro’s Rhysling-nominated poetry has appeared in markets like Apex and Star*Line\, while his more than one hundred reviews\, essays and interviews have been published in venues like Clarkesworld\, Locus\, Tor.com\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Strange Horizons and Foundation.  \nJaroslav Veis is a much sought-after Czech journalist\, freelance writer\, scriptwriter\, translator and editor. He attained his degree in Journalism at the Charles University\, Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. As a science fiction enthusiast\, he is the author of five sci-fi short story collections published in a time span of more than four decades\, starting with “Experiment pro třetí planetu” (Experiment for the Third Planet\, 1976)\, and translated a wide range of authors\, such as Isaac Asimov\, Brian W. Aldiss\, etc. He also writes essays on science\, some of which were collected in “How the World Holds Together (“Čím drží svět pohromadě“)”\, which he co-wrote and edited. He wrote TV scripts for “Futuroskop I\, II\,” a Czech TV series on science\, technology and history of inventions.  \nVeis was also an Editor-in-Chief of one of the most recognized Czech newspapers Lidové noviny\, and served as the Editor of Fiction of another popular Czech newspaper Mladá fronta. Between 1993-94\, he was a Fellow at the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He also served for over a decade as the Chief Advisor to the President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. He widely publishes on politics\, and among his many achievements are the translations to Czech language\, for example a book of Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and Fareed Zakaria’s “In Defense of a Liberal Education.”  \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Alena Aissing: aaissing@library.ucla.edu
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/6471/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Boris Dralyuk
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4th 11:00am – 12:15pm for a guest lecture by Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov’s short story “Signs and Symbols”. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99894843202?pwd=NXFPYmFyaTBKeVNuTjcwVFNQMUEwUT09 \nPasscode: 769586 \nPlease contact Yelena Furman at yfurman@humnet.ucla.edu for questions or if there are any issues with the link. \n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/guest-lecture-by-boris-dralyuk/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T060000
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party (2020)
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T133000
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SUMMARY:Leveraging your foreign language study to enhance career opportunities:  Perspectives from the Monterey Institute of International Studies
DESCRIPTION:Information session led by Dr. Kelly McGee\, Deputy Director of the MIIS Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies. For the Zoom link\, sign up here: \nhttps://international.ucla.edu/russianflagship/event/14690 \n  \n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/leveraging-your-foreign-language-study-to-enhance-career-opportunities-perspectives-from-the-monterey-institute-of-international-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T170000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Face the Music"
DESCRIPTION:Link to RSVP here\n  \nA screening of a movie about Kazakh Q-pop\, “Face the Music\,” followed by a discussion with the director\, Katya Suvorova. Moderated by UCLA Kazakh instructor Dennis Keen. \n“Face the Music” Synopsis \nThis documentary film from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan follows national protests over a local boy band called Ninety One\, who perform in the genre known as Q-Pop (the Qazaq answer to K-Pop). With their dyed hair\, earrings\, makeup\, and androgynous style\, the young artists of Ninety One are challenging conservative standards in a society that still traces its roots to a traditional\, nomadic past. As Ninety One grows in popularity\, driven by a new generation of Kazakh-speaking youth\, their act ignites anger in other sectors of society\, leading to major street protests\, cancelled concerts\, and pressure from the government. As the director Katerina Suvorova explores\, the emergence of Ninety One has revealed a whole series of social and cultural conflicts within Kazakhstani society — contradictions between urban and rural culture\, between traditionalism and globalization\, and between a vertical power system and personal liberty. \nRecommended song for listening before watching the film: “Men Emes” by the group Ninety One. \n  \nMovie Screening & Zoom Discussion Links \n After registering\, you will be emailed a Youtube link to watch the film. The film link is available to the first 200 registrants only\, and will expire when the online discussion with the director begins. You will also receive a meeting link and ID information to join us virtually via Zoom for the discussion. \nYou must register first to receive this information. If you do not receive your email confirmation\, check your spam or junk mail folders in your email system. \n  \nAbout the Director \nKaterina Suvorova is a documentary film director based in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. Born in the USSR\, she studied live-action cinema at the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Film Directors at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and at the Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School in Los Angeles. Her short documentaries have been awarded various international prizes\, such as the Critics Guild’s Award at the Kinoshok Film Festival and the Special Prize from Robert Bosch Stiftung. Katerina’s previous documentary\, “Sea Tomorrow” (2016)\, was a debut full-length examination of the Aral Sea and the ecological and economic catastrophe that resulted from its destruction. Her film “Face the Music” was released in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2019\, presented at international film festivals and nominated for the Russian National Laurel Award as “Best Film of 2019.” Katerina is currently working on a documentary about civic activism in Kazakhstan and about the plights of Kazakh women. \n  \nAbout the Discussant \nDennis Keen is a Central Asia specialist\, born and raised in Los Angeles but based in Almaty\, Kazakhstan. In Spring 2019\, Dennis taught two courses as a lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, “Introduction to Kazakhstan” and “Survival Kazakh.” He is the host of the Kazakh TV travel program “Discovering Kazakhstan with Dennis Keen\,” the founder of the urbanism blog “Walking Almaty\,” and the creator of “Monumental Almaty\,” an initiative to document and preserve Soviet-era mosaics and other works of so-called “monumental art” in Kazakhstan. Most recently\, Dennis is the author and co-producer of Kazakhstan’s official tourism campaign “Very Nice!”\, announced in October in parallel with the release of the latest Borat film. \n“Very Nice!” | Kazakh Tourism official new slogan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRGXq4t9wY4 \n  \nSusan Kresin\nRussianFlagship@international.ucla.edu \nhttps://russianflagship.ucla.edu/
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-of-face-the-music/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T170000
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SUMMARY:Discussion of «Петь свои песни»\, a movie about Kazakh Q-pop w/ director Katerina Suvorova (Registration required to view the film in advance)
DESCRIPTION:https://international.ucla.edu/russianflagship/event/14691 \nSponsored by the UCLA Russian Flagship Program and open to all. \nLinks to view the film in advance and for the Zoomed discussion will be sent to registrants: https://international.ucla.edu/russianflagship/event/14691. \nArticle in Russian about the movie: https://liter.kz/8078-pet-svoi-pesni-pochemu-film-o-gruppe-ninety-one-bolshe-chem-prosto-film-i-ego-stoit-posmotret/; recommended song: “Men Emes” by the group Ninety One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L43JtW9OwRs
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/discussion-of-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%82%d1%8c-%d1%81%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%b8-%d0%bf%d0%b5%d1%81%d0%bd%d0%b8-a-movie-about-kazakh-q-pop-w-director-katerina-suvorova-and-dennis-keen-of-discove/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201006T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201006T140000
DTSTAMP:20200930T231444Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar featuring Dr. Fiona Hill: A discussion on Russia's Role in the 2020 U.S. Election
DESCRIPTION:A webinar featuring Dr. Fiona Hill\, leading expert on Russia and its modern leadership \nTuesday\, October 6\, 2020\n11:00 AM (Pacific Time)\nWebinar \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  \nFollow-up discussion led by UCLA Flagship graduate Alyssa Haerle ‘2012 on the consequences of Russian influence for careers in Russian area studies. For a link\, contact the UCLA Russian Flagship program: RussianFlagship@international.ucla.edu\n  \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. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nFiona Hill is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She recently served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. From 2006 to 2009\, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. She is co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” (Brookings Institution Press\, 2015). \nPrior to joining Brookings\, Hill was director of strategic planning at The Eurasia Foundation in Washington\, D.C. From 1991 to 1999\, she held a number of positions directing technical assistance and research projects at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government\, including associate director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project\, director of the Project on Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union\, and coordinator of the Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations. \nHill has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia\, the Caucasus\, Central Asia\, regional conflicts\, energy\, and strategic issues. Her book with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy\,“The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold\,” was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2003\, and her monograph\, “Energy Empire: Oil\, Gas and Russia’s Revival\,” was published by the London Foreign Policy Centre in 2004. The first edition of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2013\, also with Clifford Gaddy. \nHill holds a master’s in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow. She also holds a master’s in Russian and modern history from St. Andrews University in Scotland\, and has pursued studies at Moscow’s Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nKal Raustiala is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA International Institute\, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. He has served as the Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations since 2007. \nSponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations\, Center for European and Russian Studies \n  \n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/webinar-featuring-dr-fiona-hill-a-discussion-on-russias-role-in-the-2020-u-s-election/
LOCATION:webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200921T130000
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SUMMARY:Russian Placement Exam 2020
DESCRIPTION:The Russian Placement Exam is given once a year\, during zero week of the Fall Quarter. If you have a problem taking the exam on this day\, please contact akudyma@ucla.edu. \nThe exam takes ~90 minutes to complete and consists of the following sections: grammar\, reading comprehension\, listening comprehension\, speaking\, and writing. Please visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/languages/placement-exams/ for more details. \nThis exam is for UCLA students only. Please email sbauckus@international.ucla.edu for information about the Russian exam for high school students. \n\nSign-up to take the 2020 Russian Placement Exam \n[gravityform id=”34″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\nWe will be hosting our annual open house on Wednesday\, September 30\, 2020 3-4pm. If you’re interested in attending\, please visit here for event details. 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/russian-placement-exam-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Anna Kudyma":MAILTO:akudyma@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200831T200000
DTSTAMP:20200826T175230Z
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SUMMARY:Belarusian Voices in the Media
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and the Russian Flagship Program invite you to “Belarusian Voices in the Media\,” Monday\, August 31 at 5 pm PST. Hosted by Sasha Razor\, it will focus on Belarus\, the ongoing protests\, and their relevance for Russian area studies.   \n  \nSasha Razor: Belarusian Voices in the Media  \nMonday\, August 31 at 5 pm PST   \nFor the Zoom link\, please send a message indicating your interest to kresin@ad.ucla.edu \n  \nSee below for some recommendations from Sasha. \n  \nRecommended preparation: Sasha’s “short take” from Los Angeles Review of Books (The Lesson of Belarus). \nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-lesson-of-belarus/?fbclid=IwAR1a8ouNF6xPbY-rMpjMeyKGGsgQQDoNHud7F_1kKRoJICb57pMcz9LkgKw \n  \nAdditional links   \nArticles  \nThis is an introductory reading list on the topic of the Belarusian elections by the journalists who either have the insider knowledge about Belarus and/or are from this region. Browse and familiarize yourself.  \n  \n\nMasha Gessen’s articles in New Yorker:\n\n“After a Rigged Election\, Belarus Crushes Protests Amid an Information Blackout” \n“We Were Locked Up in One Country and Released Into Another”: Horror and Hope as Protests in Belarus Continue” \n  \n\nDavid Kurkovskiy’s Op-Ed at The Guardian: Belarusians are speaking as one: Alexander Lukashenko’s time is up\n\n  \n\nValzhyna Mort’s Op-Ed in the New York Times: “My Country is Under Attack” \n\n  \n\nMarya Sadovskaya-Komlach provides perspectives on Belarus in Politico and Foreign Affairs:\n\nBelarus Goes its Own Way \nWhy the EU’s Targeted Sanctions on Belarus Won’t Work \n  \n\nHenry Deane on Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in the Guardian: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: from ‘Chernobyl child’ in Ireland to political limelight\n\n  \nMusic links \nBrowse and familiarize yourself with the following music videos: \n  \n“Перемен” \n\nВиктор Цой в фильме “Асса” (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9msmCgJdr24\nLyrics in Russian and English: http://russmus.net/song/7257\n“Перемен” на демонстрации в Минске: https://www.facebook.com/currenttimetv/videos/243168953423291/\n\n  \n“Муры” \n\nСергей Тихановский поет “Муры”:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OodAzQs80oI \n\n“Свободный театр” поет “Муры” и стен тюрьмы на Окрестино:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuirhU1tuQI \n  \n“Не быць скотам” \n\nСергей Михалок: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwmW3OxquY\nСтихотворение Янки Купалы “Хто ты гэтки?” (1908) на белорусском и русском: http://www.florida-rus.com/2013/07/ne-byt-skotom\nИсполнение “Не быць скотам” возле здания минской филармонии: https://www.facebook.com/douhushau/videos/3487351874662676/\nСергей Михалок “Воины света” (одна из самых знаменитых песен Майдана 2014г.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8HqRH5cHPo\n\nArt links  \n\nInterview with Artur Klinau/Sasha Razor on the role of an artist in contemporary Belarus\n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-the-sun-city-of-dreams-to-the-city-of-angels-a-conversation-with-belarusian-artist-and-author-artur-klinau/ \n\nhttps://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12056/belarusian-artists-protests\n \nDreams of Belarusian people about Alexander Lukashenko by Tatsiana Zamirovskaya: https://pen.org/dreams-of-belarusian-people-about-alexander-lukashenko/?fbclid=IwAR25ZxBZ8_nZFjzOrW95Aq0I8rT56aBaxgeV8u1oORnSKqXwWAwvdxqd10I \n\n  \nAdditional reading and watching: \n\nMeduza Belarusian Summer Playlist: https://meduza.io/en/slides/a-belarusian-summer-playlist\n\n  \n\nDavid R. Marples\, Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: A Memoir (2020). Download for free: https://www.e-ir.info/publication/understanding-ukraine-and-belarus-a-memoir/?fbclid=IwAR2kWa9TAV-31Qgzliv6-WZPzrPTMQJxqvrWLmIUfBgW9m60nYfD4nSPcjM\n\n  \n\nPoem by Julia Cimafiejeva: https://lithub.com/the-stone-of-fear/?fbclid=IwAR0VO9ue_wfb5jGOSbFlxebgMYVXlV8uu5IS1_w_g3-ZL_wHcvVInF2zA1Y\n\n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/belarusian-voices-in-the-media/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200502T163000
DTSTAMP:20200428T231545Z
CREATED:20191021T173606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200428T231545Z
UID:5971-1588410000-1588437000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:23rd Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to attend the 23rd Annual UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/23rd-annual-undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T200000
DTSTAMP:20200203T185953Z
CREATED:20200130T223630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T185953Z
UID:6182-1583344800-1583352000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Student Film Festival 2020
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/student-film-festival-2020/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T170000
DTSTAMP:20200218T225807Z
CREATED:20200212T181927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200218T225807Z
UID:6231-1582515000-1582563600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Theater of Leonid Andreev
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/theater-of-leonid-andreev/
LOCATION:247 Dodd Hall\, CA\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T173000
DTSTAMP:20200123T160802Z
CREATED:20200116T234949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200123T160802Z
UID:6159-1580918400-1580923800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Foreign Languages at the Center of the Liberal Arts: Reconceptualizing Curricular Design
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/foreign-languages-at-the-center-of-the-liberal-arts-reconceptualizing-curricular-design/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200123T180000
DTSTAMP:20200108T190633Z
CREATED:20200108T190633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T190633Z
UID:6155-1579795200-1579802400@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Anatomy of a Genocide: A Case Study in Mass Murder
DESCRIPTION:More information.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/anatomy-of-a-genocide-a-case-study-in-mass-murder/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, 480 Charles E Young Dr East\, Los Angeles\, 90095
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T193000
DTSTAMP:20191010T162347Z
CREATED:20191009T165010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T162347Z
UID:5945-1575309600-1575315000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-2/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191115T173000
DTSTAMP:20191112T230732Z
CREATED:20190820T235212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T230732Z
UID:5886-1573808400-1573839000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"The Scholarly World of Vyacheslav Ivanov: Assessments\, Reassessments\, Reflections"
DESCRIPTION:A Memorial Conference Honoring the Legacy of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov \nFriday\, November 15\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 5:30 PM\nUCLA Faculty Center – Hacienda Room \n  \nConference Program \n  \n9:00-9:15 Introductions \nDavid Schaberg\, Dean\, UCLA Division of the Humanities \nRonald Vroon\, Chair UCLA Dept. of Slavic\, E. European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nBrent Vine\, Chair\, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies \n  \n9:15 – 10:15 \nSECTION 1: INDO-EUROPEAN AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS (1) \nModerator: Brent Vine\, Professor\, Dept. of Classics; Chair\, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies \n\nH. Craig Melchert\, Professor Emeritus\, UCLA\n\n“Pluti” and Poetry  \n\nNikolai Kazansky (V)\,* Professor\, St. Petersburg University; Head of Russian Academy of Sciences’ Dept. of Indo-European Comparative Linguistics\, Institute for Linguistic Studies\n\nHittite Relations with the Aegean and Vyacheslav Ivanov’s Anatolian Etymologies  \n  \n10:15 – 10:30 Break \n  \n10:30 – 12:00 \nSECTION 2: INDO-EUROPEAN AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS (2) \nModerator: Brent Vine \n3. Anna Dybo (V)\, Professor\, Moscow State University; Department Head\, Division of Ural-Altaic Languages\, Russian Academy of Sciences \nVyacheslav Ivanov’s Role in the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European Culture: A Look from the Inside\, a Look from the Outside \n\nIlya Yakubovich\, Lead Researcher\, Institute of Oriental Studies\, Russian Academy of Sciences\n\nVyacheslav Ivanov and Two Classes of Proto-Indo-European Verbal Roots  \n\nGeorges-Jean Pinault\, Professor\, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes\, Paris Sciences et Lettres\n\nLanguage and Myth in the Indo-Iranian Area: About Indra Again  \n  \n12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH \n  \n1:00 – 2:30 \nSECTION 3: SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE\, POETICS (1) \nModerator: Ronald Vroon\, Professor and Chair\, UCLA Dept. of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \n6. Tatiana Tsivian (V)\, Head of the Dept. of Russian Culture\, Institute of World Culture\, Moscow State University; Chief Research Fellow\, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences \nand \nNataliya Zlydneva (V)\, Chief Research Fellow\, Institute of World Culture\, Moscow State University; Head of the Dept. of the History of the Cultures of the Slavic Peoples\, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences \nVyacheslav Ivanov’s Last Project: (The) Living Stone  \n\nMihhail Lotman\, Professor of Semiotics\, Tallinn University; Research Professor\, University of Tartu\n\nFinno-Ugric Verse and its Relations with Indo-European Verse  \n\nHenryk Baran\, Professor Emeritus\, SUNY Albany\n\nVyacheslav Ivanov’s Approaches to Khlebnikov: Achievements\, Problems\, Broader Perspectives \n  \n2:30 – 3:00 Break \n  \n3:00– 5:30 \nSECTION 4: SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE AND POETICS (2) \nModerator: Ronald Vroon \n\nYuri Tsivian\, William Colvin Professor Emeritus\, University of Chicago\n\nSynthèse: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Sergei Eisenstein  \n\nBarry P. Scherr (V)\, Professor Emeritus\, Dartmouth College\n\nVyacheslav Ivanov and the Analysis of Russian Verse Rhythm  \n\nWillem Weststeijn\, Professor Emeritus\, Faculty of Humanities\, University of Amsterdam\n\nVyacheslav Ivanov on the Problem of Time in Modern Culture  \n\nIgor Pilshchikov\, Professor\, UCLA\, Dept. of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\n\nVyacheslav Ivanov and the Moscow-Tartu / Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics  \n  \n6:00 – 8:00 \nEVENING (INFORMAL BUFFET) \nFOR PARTICIPANTS AND INVITED FRIENDS OF VVI AND GUESTS REMINISCENCES AND MEMORIAL (ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN) \n*The notation (V) indicates that the presentation will be virtual\, in the form of a video recording or streaming video
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-scholarly-world-of-vyacheslav-ivanov-assessments-reassessments-reflections/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, 480 Charles E Young Dr East\, Los Angeles\, 90095
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T173000
DTSTAMP:20191112T170611Z
CREATED:20191112T170515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T170611Z
UID:6117-1573660800-1573666200@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Surmounting Chernobyl: Artistic Responses to Ecological Disaster
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/surmounting-chernobyl-artistic-responses-to-ecological-disaster-2/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T213000
DTSTAMP:20191104T182309Z
CREATED:20191104T182204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191104T182309Z
UID:6066-1573586100-1573594200@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Zukor and Fox Story: On the Life and Influence of Hollywood's Two Hungarian-born Founding Fathers
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-public-is-never-wrong-the-zukor-and-fox-story-lecture-by-dr-sandor-tako/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Borbely":MAILTO:melindaborbely@ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T180000
DTSTAMP:20190930T170543Z
CREATED:20190906T232558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T170543Z
UID:5929-1570203000-1570212000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Reading and Conversation with Maxim Osipov\, Author of Rock\, Paper\, Scissors\, and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-reading-and-conversation-with-maxim-osipov-author-of-rock-paper-scissors-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T183000
DTSTAMP:20190913T173609Z
CREATED:20190913T173539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T173609Z
UID:5936-1569943800-1569954600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Transfer and Out of State Student Mixer
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/transfer-and-out-of-state-student-mixer/
LOCATION:301 Kaplan Hall
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190531T173000
DTSTAMP:20190529T194948Z
CREATED:20190509T220657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T194948Z
UID:5766-1559293200-1559323800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Aiming for Superior: A Memorial Conference Honoring the Legacy of Olga E. Kagan
DESCRIPTION:A Memorial Conference Honoring the Legacy of Olga Kagan \nFriday\, May 31\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 5:30 PM\nUCLA Faculty Center – Hacienda Room \nThe UCLA Center for World Languages\, the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, and the Division of the Humanities invite you to a conference celebrating the legacy of Professor Olga E. Kagan. The all-day conference will bring together scholars from UCLA and around the country who worked closely with her\, to present on topics that are representative of her extraordinary career on heritage language teaching and second language acquisition. \nPlease RSVP here.\n  \nConference Program \nAiming for Superior\nA Memorial Conference Honoring the Legacy of Olga E. Kagan\nUCLA Faculty Center\, Hacienda Room\, May 31\, 2019 \n9:00 – 9:15 Welcomes and Introductions \nDavid Schaberg\, Dean\, Division of the Humanities \nRonald Vroon\, Chair\, Dept. of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nPeter Cowe\, Director\, Center for World Languages \nChris Erickson\, Senior Associate Vice Provost\, International Institute \n9:15 – 9:45 Keynote Address \nSamuel Eisen\, Director\, The Language Flagship and NSEP Director of Programs \nPerspectives on Multilingualism for Overseas Language Immersion and Government Service \n9:45 – 11:00 Panel One: Heritage Pedagogy \nMaria Carreira\, California State University\, Long Beach \nEngineering the Field of Heritage Languages: Olga Kagan’s Trailblazing Roads\, Bridges\, and Canals \nAndrew Lynch\, University of Miami \nPerspectives on the Past and Present of Heritage Language Studies \nMaria Polinsky\, University of Maryland \nOlga Kagan: A Pioneering Legacy (Video) \n11:00 – 11:15 Break \n11:15 – 12:30 Panel Two: Russian L2 Pedagogy \nDan Davidson\, Bryn Mawr College\, American Councils \nExploring the Relationship between L2 Proficiency and Intercultural Development in the Overseas Immersion Learning Environment \nWilliam Comer\, Portland State University \nA Deeper Look at Shekhtman’s “Islands”: Fluency and Restructuring in Learning Russian \nJennifer Bown\, Brigham Young University \nDeveloping a Self-Directed Russian for Professional Purposes Course \n12:30 – 1:30 Lunch \n1:30 – 2:45 Panel Three: Russian Pedagogy and the Flagship Program \nSandra Freels\, Portland State University \nBusiness as Unusual: Aiming for Superior in the Russian Language Flagship” \nMaria Lekić\, University of Maryland\, American Councils \nTransformative Learning: The Way of Flagship \nKaren Evans-Romaine\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison \nLooking Back\, Looking Forward: Learning from the Russian Flagship (video) \n2:45 – 3:00 Break \n3:00 – 4:15 Panel Four: Moving Forward: The Next Generation \nNetta Avineri\, Middlebury Institute of International Studies\, Monterey \nSociolinguistic and Intercultural Abundance: A Social Justice Approach \nAnna Ice\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nRaising Bilingual-Biliterate Children in a Monolingual Context: The Impact of Family and Supplementary Education \nEkaterina Moore\, University of Southern California \nAffect in a Russian Heritage Language Classroom \n4:15 – 4:30 Break \n4:30 – 5:30 Panel Five: Reflections \nKathleen Dillon\, University of California\, Davis \nThe Empowerment of Language Inheritance: Fulfilling Olga Kagan’s Dream and Vision \nBenjamin Rifkin\, Hofstra University (Video) \nOlga Kagan and Pedagogy of the Heart \nShushan Karapetian\, University of California\, Los Angeles (Video) \nTribute to a Mentor \nBoris Dralyuk\, University of California\, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Review of Books \nAutumnal People: Learning from Olga \nMax Boot\, Washington Post \nA Tribute
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/aiming-for-superior-a-memorial-conference-honoring-the-legacy-of-olga-e-kagan/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, 480 Charles E Young Dr East\, Los Angeles\, 90095
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T200000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165600Z
CREATED:20170627T195559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T165600Z
UID:3641-1559152800-1559160000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multicultural Performance Night (2019)
DESCRIPTION:MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT \nA SHOWCASE OF DIVERSITY & TALENT \n\nWEDNESDAY\, MAY 29\, 2019 \n6 – 8 PM \n314 ROYCE HALL \n\nInformation regarding tryouts is forthcoming. \nThis event is free and open to the public.  \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/talent-show-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T190000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165604Z
CREATED:20180815T173459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T165604Z
UID:5150-1557336600-1557342000@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:6th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures \nand the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature \ninvite you to attend the \n6th Annual Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture \nfeaturing  \n\n“Epic Foolishness: Translating Epic Poetry for the 21st Century”\n(tentative) \nby \nBILL JOHNSTON\nProfessor of Comparative Literature\nIndiana University Bloomington \n\nBill Johnston has published over thirty book-length translations from the Polish\, including poetry\, prose\, and drama. His awards include the Best Translated Book Award\, the PEN Translation Prize\, the AATSEEL Translation Prize (twice)\, and the Found in Translation Award (twice). He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His most recent translations include Julia Fiedorczuk’s book of poetry Oxygen (Zephyr Press\, 2017) and Adam Mickiewicz’s epic poem Pan Tadeusz (Archipelago Books\, 2018). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University. \n\n 
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/heim-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T133000
DTSTAMP:20190227T192730Z
CREATED:20190227T192730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T192730Z
UID:5677-1552478400-1552483800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Audacity of Russian Realism: Painting Critically in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will examine the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realist painting\, a tradition which existed primarily from the mid-1840s through the late 1880s and was associated with a range of artistic figures—from the much-celebrated Ilia Repin\, to the less well-known figures of Vasilii Perov and Ivan Kramskoi. Russian realist paintings have long been compared to those by their French counterparts\, but the styles of realism in these two cultural sectors diverge in important ways. Whereas French realism was centered on forming objective and impartial representations of contemporary life\, Russian realist artists cultivated their tendentiousness\, representing reality while still valuing subjectivity and empathic judgment. This seminar will introduce the major Russian realist painters and contextualize their work in terms of the writings on realism which rose to the fore at the time in order to show how both participate in the general social and political awakening characteristic of Russia in the second half of the century. \n Allison Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a specialist in European and Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries and her first book\, Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Russian Painting\, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press in late 2019.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-audacity-of-russian-realism-painting-critically-in-the-19th-century/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://slavic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Leigh-Talk.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T193000
DTSTAMP:20190208T191559Z
CREATED:20170627T195020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T191559Z
UID:3632-1551895200-1551900600@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Poetry & Music Night (2019)
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE! \nPlease join us for an evening of poetry from Eastern and Central Europe! \nMusical performances of great works by composers such as Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev to be performed by students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! \nThis event is free and open to the public.  \nLight refreshments will be served. \nRSVP forthcoming.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-music-night-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://slavic.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/PoetryMusicNight2019.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T180000
DTSTAMP:20190202T233409Z
CREATED:20190202T233326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190202T233409Z
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SUMMARY:"Sincerity out\, authenticity in: poetry in quest of trust in times of post-truth”
DESCRIPTION:In the first half of the 1990s a new generation of Russian poets\, — or a considerable part thereof — found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way to speak straightforwardly: readily available poetics either wasn’t up to the job or was itself part of the problem. Poetry optics\, which emerged at the time as a possible solution\, was the “new sincerity.” The new generation of poets entering the scene since the mid-2010s faces completely new challenges\, shaped mostly not by the dominant poetic practices of the past\, but by discourses of power. New political forces\, probably not quite suitably labelled “populist\,” have not just appropriated\, but in fact have weaponized the notion of sincerity. More often than not poetry feels obligated to confront the new\, ever-changing\, opportunistic and largely immoral “sincerity” of public discourse — all the more so because this discourse is so pervasive and mechanisms of defense have yet to be created or even imagined. In a situation like this\, multiple strategies emerge. Some consider pursuing authenticity rather than a compromised sincerity\, while others are desperately seeking a new locus for the poetic voice which can be trusted\, not only by others\, but also by the speaker him- or herself. \nStanislav Lvovsky (b. 1972) is former editor-in-chief of the “Literature” section of OPENSPACE.RU/ COLTA.RU and winner of several Russian literary awards\, including the Andrey Bely Prize in 2017 for the collection “Poems from the book and other poems.” He is the author of six published collections of poetry\, one short story collection and one novel (co-authored with Linor Goralik). One of his poems was the basis of the project “Quiet War Songs” (2015) by six contemporary Russian composers as well as the contemporary dance performance “Parasomnias.” Lvovsky regularly publishes articles on political and social issues\, as well as on cultural history and contemporary Russian poetry in various periodicals and academic journals. His poetry has been translated into in English\, French\, Chinese\, Italian and other languages. Currently\, he is finishing his DPhil thesis on Soviet cultural history at the University of Oxford.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/sincerity-out-authenticity-in-poetry-in-quest-of-trust-in-times-of-post-truth/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:Screening of the Polish Movie: Ether
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-the-polish-movie-ether/
LOCATION:169 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Agnieszka Jezyk":MAILTO:agnieszkajezyk@ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Innocence Unprotected: A Film Screening in Honor of the Memory of Dušan Makavejev
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URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/innocence-unprotected-a-film-screening-in-honor-of-the-memory-of-dusan-makavejev/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall 161
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Winsky":MAILTO:winskypg@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T163000
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SUMMARY:Faculty/Student Social
DESCRIPTION:Undergraduate Majors/Minors:\nWe invite you to our winter quarter faculty/student social to learn more about the department\, your faculty and meet your fellow students!\nSee Flyer!
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/faculty-student-social/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
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