Selection of events sponsored by the Slavic Department in the past
2008-2009
"Be Not Afraid of Greatness... Celebrity and the Pseudo-Event, Leo Tolstoy"
Michael Denner (Stetson University)
Wednesday, May 27
noon
Slavic Seminar room, Crowe 4-134
Slavic Film series
Czech Dreams [Cezky Sen]
Czech, 2004; 90 min.
Wednesday, May 27
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
"The Proletarian Lord: Leo Tolstoy among the Bolsheviks, 1917-1921"
Michael Denner (Stetson University)
Tuesday, May 26
3:30 pm
Hagstrum room (University Hall 201)
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop
"Interactions Along the Fault Lines of Civilizations:
Investigating Literary Legacies and Transitions in Russian Accounts
of the Caucasian Conquest (1817-1864)"
Michael Marsh-Soloway
Wednesday, May 20
noon
Slavic Seminar room, Crowe 4-134
Slavic Film series
Fuse
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, 2002; 97 min.
Wednesday, May 20
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
Slavic Film series
The Double Life of Veronika
Poland, 2006; 97 min.
Wednesday, May 13
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
Slavic Film series
No Man's Land
Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian, 2002; 97 min.
Wednesday, May 6
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
Slavic Film series
The Cathedral
Poland, 2003; 7 min.
Kanal
Poland, 1956; 95 min.
Wednesday, April 29
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
"The Queen of Spades: What Can Silence Tell?"
Professor Inna Naroditskaia (Bienen School of Music, Northwestern)
Wednesday, April 22
12:30 pm
Slavic Film series
Prisoner of the Caucasus [Кавказский пленник]
Russia 1996; 99 min.
Wednesday, April 22
8 pm
Kresge 4-430
Join PASA for
Chicagoski Wieczor: A Polish Night of Discovery
Enjoy a performance by Polish folk dance group
POLONIA, eat delicious Polish food, and learn about Polish culture.
Wednesday, March 11th
6-8pm
Kresge 2-415
Slavic Film series
Црна мачка, бели мачор, Črna mačka, beli mačor, [Black Cat, White Tomcat]
Serbia, 1998; 135 minutes
Tuesday, March 10
8 pm
Kresge 4-310
Faculty / Graduate Student Conference
“Literature and Ideology”
Participants include Katia Bowers, Professor Clare Cavanagh, Connor Doak, Professor Nina
Gourianova, Conor Klamann, Professor Gary Saul Morson, Professor Michal Oklot (Brown U),
Erin Pappas (U Chicago), Professor Susan McReynolds, Professor Andrew Wachtel, Nina Wieda.
Friday, March 6
10 am - 3 pm
Spencer room
Chambers Hall
600 Foster
Slavic Film series
Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. [Love Affair; Or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator] Yugoslavia, 1967; 79 min.
Tuesday, March 3
8 pm
Kresge 4-310
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop
"The Dialogue of Tactics and Poetics in 'War and Peace'"
Alish Koc
Wednesday, February 25
1pm
Slavic Seminar room, Crowe 4-134
Slavic Film series
Kolja [Kolya]
Czech, 1996; 105 min.
Tuesday, February 24
8 pm
Kresge 4-310
Slavic Film series
Ostre Sledované Vlaky [Closely Watched Trains]
Czech, 1966; 93 min.
Tuesday, February 17
8 pm
Kresge 4-310
A reading and conversation with
Vladimir Voinovich,
author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Friday, February 6
3:30 pm
Lake Room in the Norris Center
1999 Campus Drive
Book signing to follow
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop:
"A Sentimental Journey Through the Gothic Landscape:
Karamzin's Transitional Prose"
Katia Bowers
Wednesday, January 28
1pm
Slavic Seminar Room, Crowe 4-134
Cluster for Russian, East European, and Jewish
studies and Art history event:
"Death and the Maydl: Jewish Femininity and the Denial of Beauty
in the Early Work of Marc Chagall"
Prof. Olga Litvak, Clark University
Thursday, January 22
12:30pm
Kresge 4-355
"Did Pushkin overcome Byron? The case of 'Mazeppa' and 'Poltava'"
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop
Connor Doak
Wednesday, January 14
12:00 pm
Slavic Seminar Room, Crowe 4-134
"Style and Ideology: Fascist Aesthetics (The Case of Interwar Poland)"
Ulrich Schmid, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Wednesday, November 19
12:45
Slavic seminar room, Crowe 4-134
"Polish-Jewish intellectuals in mainstream entertainment, 1918-39: an
unfinished adventure?
Knut Andreas Grimstad, Associate Professor and Head of Polish Studies
in the Department of Literature and European Languages, University of
Oslo
Monday, November 10
4:30
Slavic seminar room, Crowe 4-134
Fall Reception
Wednesday, October 15
4:00 - 6:00
Ver Steeg lounge, main library
2007-2008
Master's Presentation, Tatiana Filimonova
Award Ceremony
Spring Reception
Friday, June 6
2:00 - 5:00
BCICS (Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies)
1902 Sheridan Road
"Technology and Scholarship”
Séamas O'Driscoll
Wed., May 21st
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
“The Nabokovian Impermissible”
Julia Vaingurt (UIC)
Wed., May 14th
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
"Drawing for World Revolution"
Maria Gough
Art History, Stanford University
Tuesday, May 13
5:15 p.m.
Art History Seminar Room, Kresge Hall, 3-430
"Aesthetics and Ethics of Self-Emptying:
Secular Kenosis in Russian Literature, with the Emphasis on Eduard Limonov's Novel It's Me, Eddie."
Nina Wieda
Wed., May 7
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
"The Minor Apocalypse Cycle: 4 Novels by Tadeusz Konwicki."
Gina Kuhn
Wed., April 30th
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
"Battling Bard: the Politics of Zbigniew Herbert"
Barbara Zukowski
Wed., April 23
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
"Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's War and Peace and Young Krull's First Visit to the Theater in Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man"
Horst-Jürgen Gerigk
(Universität Heidelberg)
April 15
5 pm
Slavic seminar room
"Gothic in Russia: Translation of a Genre"
Katia Bowers
April 9th
1-2 pm
Slavic seminar room
February 27, 2008
"The Politics of Historiography: Russian Scholars
Studying Central Asia"
Lisa Yountchi
Slavic Seminar Room
1:00-2:00
February 13, 2008
“Yuri Olesha’s Zavist’: Ambivalence as Reinforcement of
Imagination”
Shlomit Gorin
Slavic Seminar Room
1:00-2:00
February 12, 2008
"Dostoevsky's Democracy"
Nancy Ruttenberg (NYU)
Slavic Seminar Room
5:00
January 23, 2008
“ ‘Petukh golandskii, korol' pskovskii, ili Vladimir
Maiakovskii’?: The Ambivalent Male Body in Maiakovskii's Poetry and Poetic Self-Creation”
Connor Doak
Slavic Seminar Room
1:00-2:00
January 16, 2008
"Competing versions of the life of St. Wenceslas"
Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Slavic Seminar Room
2:00-5:00
January 9, 2008
"Culture as an Underlying Means of
Miscommunication: Getting American Students of Russian to Associate Russian Culture with Russian
Words”
Lis Elliot and Katia Bowers
Kresge 1-375/379 (there are 2 doors)
1:00-2:00
December 6
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop Series
"The Wild Ride in Babel's Red Cavalry: Genealogy of a Topos"
Nina Wieda
1:00-2:00
4-134 Crowe Hall
December 5
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop Series
"TPR and Mastering Russian Multi- and Unidirectional Verbs of Motion"
Lisa Yountchi and Elisabeth Elliott
12:30-1:30
1-375 Kresge
October 31
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop Series
"On spal i Ofelia nilas' emu': The Recurrence of the Ophelia Image in Blok's Poetry"
Katia Bowers
12:30-1:30
4-134 Crowe Hall
November 28
Slavic Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop Series
"The Influence of Italian Futurism and the Motif of War in the Early Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky"
Tatiana Filimonova
12:30-1:30
4-134 Crowe Hall
2006 - 2007
March 6
Professor Alfred Thomas
University Illinois of Chicago
"Shakespeare's Bohemia"
Kresge 2-500
5pm
March 30
Professor Thomas Pavel
University of Chicago
"What is Realism?"
Kresge 2-500
4pm
May 15
Professor Catherine Ciepiela
Amherst College
"Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and the Politics of the 1920's"
4pm
Crowe Hall 4-134
May 22
Professor Caryl Emerson
Princeton University
"The Pushkin-Prokofiev-Meyerhold BORIS GODUNOV: The 1937 torso and the 2007
Princeton production"
4pm
Swift Hall 107
2005 - 2006
SLAVIC LECTURE SERIES on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27:
Professor Vladimir Kataev, Moscow State Lomonosov University,
"Chekhov and symbolism in Theatre" (in Russian)
Graduate seminar:
Tuesday FEBRUARY 21, at 5:30, Slavic Seminar Room: Maria Kisel (PhD Candidate) will talk on "Chekhov, Zoshchenko and the Shame of a Hack Writer"
Tuesday FEBRUARY 28, at 5:30, Slavic Seminar Room: Katia Bowers will talk on Isaac Babel's Odessa Stories.
"Fallen Curtain" Slavic Film Series
War Films
| Date Film Year Director Language |
Country |
| Apr 4 Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) Sergei Bodrov |
Russia |
| Apr 11 No Man's Land (2001) Danis Tanovic |
Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Apr 18 The Shop on Main Street (1965) Jan Kadar |
Czechoslovakia |
| Apr 25 Underground (1995) Emir Kusturica |
Yugoslavia |
| May 2 Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov |
Soviet Union |
| May 9 Divided We Fall (2000) Jan Hrebejk |
Czech Republic |
| May 16 Eroica (1958) Andrej Munk |
Poland |
| May 23 Zelary (2003) Ondrej Trojan |
Czech Republic |
FALLEN CURTAIN SLAVIC FILM SERIES - Spring 2006
2003 - 2004
Derek Katz
U.C., Santa Barbara
"Magnetic Rhythm and Colorful Lightning: Jazz as Idea and Object in 1920s Prague"
February 12th
Dmitry Prigov
Russian Poet and Performance Artist
Feb 17th
Michal Pawel Markowski
"'Who Is Speaking, Please?'" Gombrowicz, Modernity, and (Un)Making Connections"
March 1st
Vladimir Gandelsman
"An Evening of Russian Poetry"
April 22nd
Ranko Bugarski, University of Belgrade and Ronelle Alexander. UC-Berkeley
"The Status of Serbo-Croatian, an Insider's and an Outsider's View"
Friday, April 30th
Nadya Kizenko, SUNY, Albany
"True Confessions: Sacrament and Penance in Modern Russia"
May 14th
Arnost Lustig
Czech Poet
May 13th
Conference: "Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Language of Russia" (organized by Prof. Susan McReynolds Oddo)
May 7 and 8
Professor Vladimir Kataev,
Moscow State University, Department of Classical Russian Literature
"Varying Interpretations of A.P.Chekhov's Work: Esli by my tol'ko znali"
April 8th
Vladmir Mishin
Poetry
April 22
2002 - 2003
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University, October
"Poetic Adaptation as Ethical Criticism: The Case of Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and Pushkin's 'Angel' "
Gerald Smith, March 7
"Joseph Brodsky: Summing Up"
Svetlana McMillen, "Avtobiograficheskie elementy v proze G Vladimova" and
Arnold McMillen, "A Tale of Two Noses: Gogol and Shostakovich"
April 12
Boris Gasparov, Columbia University
"Between Authobiography and the Score: Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger as a Musical Bildungsroman"
April 28
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