Special Preview Performance of Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death January 26, 2018 @ 4PM in Schoenberg Hall, UCLA FREE ADMISSION Artists: Vladimir CHERNOV, Baritone Neal STULBERG, Piano with Introduction by Prof. Ronald Vroon Professor and Chair of the UCLA Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
Hope Against Hope - UCLA Alumni Chamber Music Society Concert Tuesday, January 30, 8pm Schoenberg Hall Free Admission Continuing the acclaimed UCLA Camarades tradition, violinist Myroslava Khomik and cellist Charles Tyler join forces, along with select music alumni and guests, in the inaugural concert of the Chamber Music Society series. The program includes selections from...
Anxious Visions: Pushkin’s 'The Bronze Horseman' and the Poetics of Late Romanticism By Dr. Maksim Hanukai Visiting Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, February 09, 2018 03:30pm - 05:00pm 348 Kaplan Hall, UCLA Few works have fired up the tragic imagination of Russian readers as much as Pushkin’s narrative poem The Bronze Horseman. The tale of...
"Contemporary Russian Language" (Lecture presented in Russian) Professor Natalia Labunets Head of the Department of General Linguistics Tyumen State University Monday, February 12th, 2018 4pm - 5pm 305 Kaplan Hall Event flyer
"The Topos of Woman's (Self)-Sacrifice in Late 1830s Russian Prose: Melodramatic Narratives in the Age of ‘Official Nation-Building’" Dr. Maria Mayofis Dotsent (Assistant Professor) School of Cultural Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Friday, February 16th, 20183:30pm - 5:00pm348 Kaplan Hall When discussing the plots of Russian “society tales” published in the...
"Decoding the Language of Eugene Onegin: Diachronic Challenges to Understanding Pushkin’s 'Novel in Verse'” Dr. Igor Pilshchikov Visiting Associate Professor UCLA Friday, February 23, 2018 3:30-5pm 348 Kaplan Hall, UCLA The talk is focused on a particular type of difficulty in reading Eugene Onegin that Anna Zalizniak has described as “the proximal semantic evolution effect.” This...
Reading and Q&A with Russian writer Linor Goralik, author of Found Life Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 from 3-5pm UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room (room 11348) This event is free and open to the public. Note: The talk will be spoken primarily in English with some portions in Russian. Linor Goralik was born...
Please join us for an evening of poetry from Eastern and Central Europe! Musical performances of great works by composers such as Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev to be performed by students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music! This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Event flyer
Join us for the 21st Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies Saturday, April 28, 2018 UCLA Kaplan Hall For more information or to participate, visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/. Call for Papers