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SUMMARY:The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Jessica Gorter
DESCRIPTION:Please register for the event below. \n[gravityform id=”47″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nPlease contact lydia.h.roberts@ ucla.edu if you experience any issues registering for the film screening.  \nLOCATION \nDarren Star Screening Room\, 1422 Melnitz Hall\n235 Charles E Young Drive E\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nThe Luskin Center for History and Policy\, in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures (SEEELC)\, invites you to a screening of Jessica Gorter’s documentary film “The Dmitriev Affair\,” which will be followed by a Q&A session with the director (appearing remotely)\, moderated by Professor Daniel Treisman (UCLA Political Science). View the trailer here. \nSYNOPSIS: \nDeep inside the Russian forests\, against the wishes of the authorities\, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from the era of Stalin’s terror against his own people – until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony. Following Yuri closely\, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens. \nYuri Dmitriev exhumes what the Russian rulers would rather forget. After years of searching the pine forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia\, he discovers a mass grave containing thousands of people who were secretly executed during Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. \nIt is not the Russian government but Yuri Dmitriev who tracks down their identities in the archives and organizes commemorations for their next of kin. Thanks to his efforts\, they finally find out what happened to their lost relatives. Having himself been left at a maternity clinic as a baby\, he is a man on a mission: ‘Every human being has the right to know where they came from and where their family lies buried.’ \nWhile abroad there is increasing recognition for this “archaeologist of terror”\, in Russia Dmitriev is discredited as someone collaborating with the West. Then he is arrested\, on basis of a fabricated charge. Tragically accurate Dmitriev predicts his own future and that of his country. \nYuri Dmitriev has received several awards for his work\, including the Sakharov Freedom Award and the Polish Gold Cross of Merit. Dmitriev was head of the Karelian branch of the now dissolved human rights organization Memorial\, who were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. \nAbout the Director: \n\nJessica Gorter is a Dutch documentary filmmaker. She studied directing and editing at the Dutch Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam. As a teenager she lived for several years in the United States and after completing her studies\, she worked and traveled in Russia for a longer period of time. Her experience of these different worlds\, fueled by her passion for photography\, forms an important basis for her further work. Her award-winning films are screened worldwide at film festivals and universities\, theatrically released and broadcasted internationally. \nGorter made her breakthrough with 900 Days (2011) about the myth and reality of the Leningrad blockade. The film won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary the Prix Interreligieux at Visions du Réel in Nyon and the special jury prize at the ArtDocFest in Moscow. The film was also nominated for a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival and for the Prix Italia. \nEarlier in her career she made a.o. the short poetic documentary Ferryman across the Volga (1997\, Prix de RTBF) and Piter (IFFR\, 2004): a captivating look into the lives of seven residents of Saint Petersburg at a turning point in history. In her third feature-length documentary The Red Soul (2017)\, the director investigated why Stalin is still seen as a hero by so many Russians. The film premiered at IDFA\, was screened at many international festivals and received widespread critical acclaim. \nAbout the Moderator: \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. \nA graduate of Oxford University (B.A. Hons.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.)\, he has published six 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 public affairs journals such as  Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. \nHis 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. \nParking \nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Parking Structure 3 (P3) is closest to the event venue and offers hourly Pay-By-Space parking. Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about where to park and parking rates. \n\nRelated document: The Dmitriev Affair poster \nCo-Organized with: The Luskin Center for History and Policy
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-dmitriev-affair-film-screening-and-qa-with-director-jessica-gorter/
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SUMMARY:How Soviet Prison Subculture Shapes the Russian Political Landscape
DESCRIPTION:How Soviet Prison Subculture Shapes the Russian Political Landscape \nA symposium co-sponsored by the\nUCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy and the\nUCLA Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\nOrganizers: Marianna Petiaskina\, Lydia Roberts \nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles\nMay 3-4\, 2024 \n\n  \n[gravityform id=”50″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nThis event will be available on Zoom — please write to lydia.h.roberts@ucla.edu for the Zoom link. \nThis symposium gathers scholars\, policymakers\, civic activists\, and human rights defenders to explore topics including: \n♦ The impact of criminal logic and discourse on modern Russian political dialogue;\n♦ Artistic and literary traditions that influence Russian societal views of criminality\, authority\, and prison life;\n♦ The effect of the Soviet prison system and Gulag legacy on Russia’s social dynamics and cultural identity;\n♦ The implications of the above topics in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine\, particularly the recruitment of soldiers from Russian prisons and the consequences of this strategy for the social fabric of former Soviet countries;\n♦ Comparative analysis (regional and global) of these topics;\n♦ Strategies for comprehensively understanding and addressing the interplay between criminal culture and political discourse in Russia. \nEvent Program:\nMay 4\, 2024\nLuskin Conference Center \nArtistry Room\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles  \n09:0–09:10 ………………………… Opening Remarks        Marianna Petiaskina\n                                                                                             Co-Organizer\n09:10–10:40 ………………………… Panel 1 \nSoviet to Post-Soviet: Carceral Dynamics\, Gulag\, Law\nChaired by Marianna Petiaskina \nThe Gulag Reputation System in Post-Soviet Society\nGavin Slade\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Nazarbayev University \nRussian Criminality in Early Gulag Memoirs\nLydia Roberts\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \nLaw as a Tool for Putin’s Authoritarian Legitimation and as an Opportunity for Resistance\nLauren A. McCarthy\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and Legal Studies\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \n10:40–11:00 …………………………………………. Morning Refreshment Break\n11:00–12:30 …………………………………………. Panel 2 \nCurrent events: Ideology\, Putinism\, War\nChaired by Igor Pilshchikov \nFrom «Notions» to Ideology: Patsan culture and its place in the ideology of Putin’s regime\nIlya Budraitskis\, Visiting Scholar\, Program in Critical Theory\, UC Berkeley \nYevgeny Prigozhin’s “March of Justice” against “Bespredel”\nMarianna Petiaskina\, PhD Student\, Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \nThe Russian Penitentiary System after Russia’s Full-Scale Aggression Against Ukraine\nOlga Romanova\, Civic Activist and Journalist\, Founder of ‘Russia Behind Bars’ (Rus Sidyashaya) \n12:30–13:30 …………………………………………. Lunch Break\n13:30–15:00 …………………………………………. Panel 3 \nCultural Memory: Discourse\, Codes\, Prison Subculture\nChaired by Lydia Roberts \nThe Gulag Resurfaces: Society\, State Power\, Literature and the Theme of Soviet Repression\nAndrea Gullotta\, Senior Researcher\, University of Palermo \nThe Evolution of Russian Criminal Slang and its Influence on Russia’s Public Discourse \nIgor Pilshchikov\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, UCLA \nHarmonies of Discord: War Shansons\nAnastasia Gordienko\, Assistant Professor\, Russian and Slavic Studies\, University of Arizona \n15:00–15:30 …………………………………… Afternoon Refreshment Break\n15:30–16:45 …………………………………… Keynote Address \nReasons and Consequences of the Interpenetration and Fusion of the Prison “Blat Committee” with Penitentiary Authority: From Correctional Colonies to the Kremlin\nOlga Romanova\, Civic Activist and Journalist\, Founder of ‘Russia Behind Bars’ (Rus Sidyashaya) \n16:45–17:00 …………………………… Closing Remarks        Lydia Roberts\n                                                                                                 Co-Organizer \nParking at the Luskin Conference Center: https://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/about/campus-map-parking/ \nRelated Document: Abstracts and Bios
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LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: A discussion of Petra James’ paper  1890s: The Belgian and Czech Decadent Novels between Gothicization and Colonialism. Bruges la Morte (1892) by Georges Rodenbach and A Gothic Soul (1900) by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend in Kaplan Hall 311: \n[gravityform id=”53″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n  \n\nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature\, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\, and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles.  \nA discussion of Petra James’s paper\,\n1890s: The Belgian and Czech Decadent Novels between Gothicization and Colonialism.\nBruges la Morte (1892) by Georges Rodenbach and A Gothic Soul (1900) by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic \nSynopsis: \nThe paper analyses these two key decadent novels as tools for Czech and Belgian national self-determination through the aesthetic process of Gothicization. The “Gothic” trope assumes a socio-political function as the emblem of cultural reappraisal for both Czechs and Belgians\, whose national revival of the 19th century was based on a return to a medieval Gothic past\, idealized as a period with a high national symbolic value\, prefiguring foreign influences. Gothicization is interpreted not only as a process of nation-building but also as a means of obscuring the colonial nature of Belgium of the symbolist modern period and the Czech ambiguous relationship to the exotic Other\, often depicted in dehumanizing and misogynist ways. The lecture is based on a chapter from the speaker’s current book project\, Between the Lands of Rubens and of Kafka: Modernism Beyond Metropolis in Belgium and Bohemia. \nPetra James is a tenured professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures\, Faculty of Letters\, Translation and Communication (LTC)\, Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium (ULB)\, and Chair of Czech Studies at ULB (since 2011). She is also the director of the research center MODERNITAS at Maison des Sciences Humaines\, ULB\, focusing on interdisciplinary research of modernism and avant-garde. Petra James obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies from the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2009. She is one of the four editors-in-chief of the encyclopedic project Cultural History of Central European Avant-Gardes (Brill\, in progress)\, which aims to fundamentally rethink the comparative history of the European avant-garde while focusing on the context of Central Europe. She was a Plumer Visting Research Fellow at Saint-Anne’s College\, University of Oxford\, and resident at the Maison française d’Oxford (2023) and is currently a visiting professor at UC Berkeley (Spring 2024). \nSelected publications by Petra James: \n♦ Bohumil Hrabal: Composer un monde blessant à coups de ciseaux et de gomme arabique (2012 by Les Classiques Garnier\, Paris\, 2012). The book compares the Czech post-avant-garde with the French and American neo-avant-garde movements\n♦ Je cherche le peintre aux doigts blancs… (Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles\, 2022)\, an anthology of Petr Hruška’s poetry\, co-edited and co-translated in collaboration with Jean-Gaspard Páleníček\n♦ “Pastoral” and “Regional” Modernisms in Nordic and Slavic Literatures (1900s–1930s)\, a special issue of the Revue Belge de Philologie et Histoire\, edited by Petra James and Harri Veivo (2022)\n♦ “When Rural Meets Urban\,” a special issue of Slavic Literatures (formerly\, Russian Literature)\, co-edited by Petra James and Rajendra Chitnis (forthcoming in 2024) \nAdditional info: \nAn English translation of the first volume of Karásek’s trilogy is forthcoming from Amherst Press.
URL:https://slavic.ucla.edu/event/guest-lecture-a-discussion-of-dr-petra-james-paper-1890s-the-belgian-and-czech-decadent-novels-between-gothicization-and-colonialism-bruges-la-morte-1892-by-georges-rodenbach-and-a-got/
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SUMMARY:Celebrations Across Cultures
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