BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures - UCLA - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures - UCLA
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures - UCLA
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T190000
DTSTAMP:20230426T182513Z
CREATED:20230426T182513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T182513Z
UID:7304-1683136800-1683140400@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:From Soviet Hell to the Putin Nightmare
DESCRIPTION:Two Literary Protest Almanachs: Metropol (1979) and VYKHOD (2022)\n\nOffering a timely perspective on the literary and political landscape of modern-day Russia\, this presentation will discuss two literary protest almanacs\, Metropol (1978) and VYKHOD (2022)\, which feature contemporary non-conformist Russian writers. The Metropol almanac was a collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers including Vladimir Vysotsky\, Bella Akhmadulina\, and Andrei Voznesensky\, among others. Metropol was self-published in Moscow in December 1978 in a run of 12 copies and was then smuggled to the United States\, where it was reprinted by Ardis Publishing in 1979. VYKHOD (Exit) is a new project by Erofeiev\, featuring a collection of contemporary Russian non-conformist writers\, most of whom left Russia after the start of Putin’s war against Ukraine. VYKHOD features work by prose authors\, Vladimir Sorokin and Liudmila Ulitskaya\, poets Andrei Makarevich and Boris Grebenschikov\, and a new name\, Alexandre Delfinov\, among others. While VYKHOD showcases writers who fled Russia after Putin began the war\, Metropol collected texts that could not be published in the Soviet Union. The comparison of these two collections highlights the evolution of contemporary Russian literature and offers insights into the country’s history\, politics\, and society. Erofeiev will explore the differences between Metropol’s hopefulness and VYKHOD’s despair\, themes of disillusion\, and the weakness of liberal resources in Russian society. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.\n\n\nSpeaker\nBorn in Moscow in 1947\, Victor Erofeiev is a well-known writer\, television\, and radio personality. His father was Stalin’s personal interpreter for French. He became known worldwide for his novel Russian Beauty\, published in 1989 and translated into 27 languages. In 1979 he was expelled from the USSR Writers’ Union for his participation in the literary anthology Metropol\, which included texts that were banned by Soviet censors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union\, he republished this almanac. Erofeiev’s writing\, particularly his novel Encyclopedia of the Russian Soul (1999)\, has been controversial among Russian nationalists. (1999). Erofeev’s contributions to literature have earned him numerous accolades\, including the Legion d’Honneur and the Ordre d’Art et Letters in France and the Kommandor Cross in Poland. Besides writing\, Erofeiev has taught and lectured around the world in English\, French\, Russian\, and Polish. He contributes regularly to German newspapers\, including FAZ\, Die Zeit\, and Die Welt. In March 2022\, Erofeiev left Russia and is now a professor of literature at Luneburg University in Germany. In April 2023\, he published a collection of essays titled Naked Russia\, dedicated to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In his most recent work\, The Great Gopnik\, to be published by Matthes & Seitz later this year\, he relates his biography to that of Vladimir Putin. \n  \nAdditional Links: \n\nhttps://www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/eventreader/behind-putin-s-curtain-encyclopedia-of-russian-soul.html\nhttps://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-%27gopnik%27-Putin-and-Russian-Russophobia–56883.html\n\n  \nSponsor(s): Center for World Languages\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/from-soviet-hell-to-the-putin-nightmare/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T133000
DTSTAMP:20230424T190613Z
CREATED:20230424T190613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T190613Z
UID:7282-1683720000-1683725400@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Astronomers\, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez\, a 15th Century Central European Humanist
DESCRIPTION:TOMISLAV MATIĆ\nFulbright Postdoctoral Fellow\nResearch Associate\, Croatian Institute for History \nAstronomers\, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez\, a 15th Century Central European Humanist\n\nWednesday\, May 10\, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Royce 236 \nThis lecture will show that Eastern Central Europe was a participant in broader European cultural movements as early as the 15th century. For more information\, please go to this lecture’s listing on our website.\nCo-sponsored by UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\, UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, and UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \n\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\ncmrs@humnet.ucla.edu  |  cmrs.ucla.edu
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/astronomers-theologians-and-vagabonds-the-cultural-circle-of-bishop-john-vitez-a-15th-century-central-european-humanist/
LOCATION:236 Royce
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T190000
DTSTAMP:20230523T165005Z
CREATED:20230523T164735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T165005Z
UID:7363-1684947600-1684954800@slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cinema\, Culture and The Spirit of Time
DESCRIPTION:Vladimir Paperny\, SEEELC Adjunct Professor\, author of the bestseller Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two\, translated into several languages\, the Russian-language novel Schultz’ Archive\, short-listed for the Big Book Award\, and other publications\, recently published a book based on the work he started with the late Maya Turovskaya—a comparative analysis of Soviet and American cinema of the 1930s–1960s\, Cinema\, Culture\, and the Spirit of Time (NLO\, 2022\, in Russian). \nPaperny’s ability to see connections between disparate areas of culture caught the attention of Maya Turovskaya (1924–2019)\, a prominent theater and film critic and historian\, who invited him\, despite a 20-year age gap\, to collaborate on the Soviet-American films project. Their comparative analysis of films from the 1930s–1940s provided implications beyond the realm of Film Studies\, moving closer to Cultural Studies. The first PowerPoint presentation of their project was shown at the Kennan Institute in 2008 and received a positive response. \nA few months before her death\, Turovskaya sent Paperny all her archives relayed to the project with a request “You have to turn this work into a book.” Paperny immediately set to work. He expanded the timespan of the project to the 1960s\, adding films of the “Thaw” he and Turovskaya never discussed\, as well as the history of his friendship and collaboration with Turovskaya going back to the 1950s. \nCinema\, Culture\, and the Spirit of Time
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/cinema-culture-and-the-spirit-of-time/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR