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SUMMARY:A Rising Fury Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to UCLA students\, faculty and staff. Please register below. \n[gravityform id=”55″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nMonday\, November 18\, 2024\nBunche Hall Room #2209A\n6:00 – 8:00 pm\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\n\nA Rising Fury follows two Ukrainians from the peaceful protest in Kyiv in 2013 to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Pavlo and Svitlana met and fell in love at the Maidan Revolution and were filmed over 8 years with several expeditions to the frontlines of the war. When Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in 2014\, Pavlo lost his family home and joined the Ukrainian military effort. To defend his nation\, he engages in deadly firefights against former friends and a close military instructor who join Russian forces. As Svitlana transports food and medical supplies\, both find themselves on the battle lines\, protecting their land\, democracy\, and their relationship. \nA Rising Fury is the critically acclaimed and 96th Academy Award- qualified feature documentary about the war in Ukraine. A Rising Fury premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and screened at numerous international film festivals. The film is directed by Ukrainian American filmmaker Lesya Kalynska and Ukrainian filmmaker Ruslan Batytskyi. They produced it with TJ Collins (USA) and Jonathan Borge Lie (Norway). The film was nominated for best documentary and other top awards in nine international film festivals\, including Stockholm IFF\, Warsaw IFF\, Oslo Films from the South FF\, and Cleveland IFF\, and won several awards\, including the Supreme Jury Award at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2023. \n\nCo-sponsors:\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for World Languages and by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-rising-fury-film-screening/
LOCATION:2209A Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:Perpetrator as Victim: Putin's War in Ukraine and Criticism of Title IX
DESCRIPTION:The Center for European and Russian Studies\, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Barbra Streisand Center\, invites you to a book talk with Joy Neumeyer to discuss her book\,  A Survivor’s Education: Women\, Violence\, and the Stories We Don’t Tell (2024). The talk will be followed by discussion with Professor Jared McBride\, UCLA Department of History. This book talk will take place at Bunche Hall Room 10383 on  October 30th at 4 PM. \nRegister to attend here.\nAbout the Book\n\nIn this poignant self-investigation\, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed\, perceived\, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who faced violence on campus and beyond\, Neumeyer offers a startling look at how the hotly-debated Title IX system has altered university politics and culture\, and uncovers the willful misremembrance that enables misconduct on scales large and small. Deeply researched\, daringly inquisitive\, and resonant for our times\, A Survivor’s Education reveals the entanglement of storytelling\, abuse\, and power–and how we can balance narrative and evidence in our attempts to determine what “really” happened. \n\n\nAbout the Author\nJoy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. She received a PhD in History from the University of California\, Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She has also worked as a reporter in Moscow and Warsaw. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Nation\, Foreign Policy\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, New Left Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Aeon\, The Baffler\, Vice\, ARTNews\, the Guardian\, Tablet Magazine\, The Moscow Times\, Calvert Journal\, and Cat Fancy. \n\nHer first book\, A Survivor’s Education: Women\, Violence\, and the Stories We Don’t Tell— an investigative memoir about the abuse and tension between narrative and evidence in understanding the past— was released on August 20\, 2024 by PublicAffairs. \n\nAbout the Discussant\nJared McBride is a historian who examines Russia\, Ukraine\, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century with a focus on nationalist movements\, mass violence\, interethnic conflict\, and war crimes prosecution\, related to both the Second World War and Cold War periods. He also has a strong interest in the politics of archival research and access to freedom of information. His research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation\, and the Social Science Research Council\, among others\, and he has published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Journal of Genocide Research\, The Carl Beck Papers\, Ab Imperio\, Kritika\, and Slavic Review. \nPrior to starting at UCLA\, Dr. McBride held post-doctoral positions at Columbia University\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the Kennan Institute\, and USC’s Shoah Foundation. Over the past five years\, he has directed and instructed “Political Violence in the Modern World\,” a year-long Cluster course that one thousand first-year students have completed at UCLA. He also teaches courses on the Soviet Union\, 20th century Eastern Europe\, the Second World War\, and on History and Film. Presently\, he is completing a book manuscript concerning interethnic violence and local perpetrators in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. Dr. McBride is available for media inquiries concerning Ukraine and Russia. \nVenue\nBunche Hall 10383\n(10th floor of Bunche Hall)\n315 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking Structure 5 is closest to the event venue. Parking Structure 5 is accessible from Royce Drive\, south of Sunset Boulevard\, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). Alternatively\, Parking Structure 4 is also close to the venue and has Pay-By-Space Visitor Parking available. Guest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095. Accessible parking: If you have accessibility needs\, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure\, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/perpetrator-as-victim-putins-war-in-ukraine-and-criticism-of-title-ix/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:Lecture and Seminar by Peter Steiner
DESCRIPTION:Please join us this Friday\, March 10th at 3:00pm for a lecture by Peter Steiner entitled\, “The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel’s Greengrocer”. The lecture will be in the Young Research Library’s Main Conference Room 11360 (located behind the coffee shop on the main floor). The event features a one-day showcase of Havel’s and Steiner’s publications. Light refreshments will be provided. We encourage you to read the digest and/or paper draft before attendance. \nDigest | Draft Paper \nThere will also be a graduate seminar with Peter Steiner on Slavic Literary Theory on Tuesday\, March 14th at 5:15pm in 305 Kaplan Hall. Everyone is welcome to attendance\, no registration is required. \n“The Unsung Hero” is a detailed analysis of Havel’s most famous political essay “The Power of the Powerless” focusing on its main character\, a hapless greengrocer who\, according to Havel was forced by those in power to display in his shop window an ideological slogan “Proletarians of all lands unite!” This message\, however\, was utterly alien to him; thus\, he acquiesced to “living a lie [žít ve lži].” The essay questions both the content of the Marxist catchphrase Havel’s vendor was supposedly forced to foist on his customers as well as his motivation for doing so.\n\n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/peter-steiner/
LOCATION:Young Research Library – Main Conference Room 11360
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230117T220000
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SUMMARY:Klondike Screening
DESCRIPTION:RSVP
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/klondike-screening/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, 235 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T213000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening and Q&A: "F@ck This Job" a.k.a. "Tango with Putin"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION REQUIRED – CLICK HERE\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures will host a special screening of the documentary F@ck This Job (titled Tango with Putin on BBC) on Thursday\, September 29\, 2022 at 6:00 PM. The screening will be held on the UCLA campus in A51 Kaplan Hall. Immediately following the screening\, Professor Lilya Kaganovsky will lead an in-person Q&A with director Vera Krichevskaya and journalist Natalya Sindeeva. \nTo view the official trailer for the film\, click here. \nFeatured Guests \n\nVera Krichevskaya is a co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and an award-winning television director and producer who has held numerous roles at NTV Channel\, ICTV Channel and 24DOC TV. Her feature documentaries include F@ck This Job (2021)\, The Case (2018)\,The Man Who Was Too Free (2016)\, and The Citizen Poet (2012). In 2013\, Vera was a World Press Institute Fellow. \n\n  \nNatalya Sindeeva is a co-founder\, main owner\, and chief executive officer of the Dozhd TV (TV Rain) Media Holding\, which includes Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and the Republic.ru online magazine. Sindeeva is also the co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station; founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award; and three-time laureate of the “Media Manager of Russia” prize. She is an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio\, and in 2016 became a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for the Protection of Human Rights.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/documentary-screening/
LOCATION:A51 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T130000
DTSTAMP:20220920T030822Z
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come join our faculty\, advisor and fellow students to learn more about the majors/ minors and our Russian Flagship Program! \nLight refreshments provided
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-open-house/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T180000
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SUMMARY:End of Year Talent Show Event
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/celebrations-across-cultures/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T140000
DTSTAMP:20210915T165638Z
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SUMMARY:Department Open House (2021)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlease RSVP here.\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/open-house-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T200000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165600Z
CREATED:20170627T195559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T165600Z
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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://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/talent-show-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T190000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165604Z
CREATED:20180815T173459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T165604Z
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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://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/heim-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T133000
DTSTAMP:20190227T192730Z
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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://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-audacity-of-russian-realism-painting-critically-in-the-19th-century/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T193000
DTSTAMP:20190208T191559Z
CREATED:20170627T195020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T191559Z
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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://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-music-night-2019/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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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://dev.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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T173000
DTSTAMP:20190202T002708Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of the Polish Movie: Ether
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URL:https://dev.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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T220000
DTSTAMP:20190202T010740Z
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SUMMARY:Innocence Unprotected: A Film Screening in Honor of the Memory of Dušan Makavejev
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URL:https://dev.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:20181205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T200000
DTSTAMP:20181120T020949Z
CREATED:20170627T200109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181120T020949Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Celebration (2018)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! \n\nWednesday\, December 05\, 2018\n06:30pm – 08:00pm\n314 Royce Hall \n\nOur talented students will perform holiday songs\, poems\, skits\, and more to ring in the holiday season.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/holiday-party-2018/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T173000
DTSTAMP:20181126T224904Z
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SUMMARY:Book talk by Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj\, University of Haifa - "The Russians in Israel: A New Ethnic Group in a Tribal Society"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Majid Al-Haj of the University of Haifa will discuss his forthcoming book\, which looks at the influx of Russian immigrants into Israel\, their ethnic formation and their impact on politics\, culture and society in Israel. \n\nRSVP   Flier \nCo-sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History\, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\, the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, and the UCLA Russian Flagship Program\n \nAbout the Talk \nThe Russians in Israel: A New Ethnic Group in a Tribal Society (London: Routledge) explores the immigrants who came to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (hereafter Russian Immigrants) in the 1990s over the course of the three decades since the arrival of the first wave. In particular\, the book focuses on ethnic formation among Russian immigrants\, their location within the ethnic map of Israeli society\, and the impact of these immigrants on the traditional bi-polar Ashkenazi-Mizrahi ethnic division. \nThe talk will address both the existing and the anticipated influences of these immigrants on politics\, culture and social structure in Israel as well as their impact on regional issues\, in particular the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Based on a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods\, Prof. Al-Haj will analyze these subjects in the context of the historical developments of Israeli society and the demographic\, economic and political changes that have taken place in Israel over time. \nAbout the Speaker \nMajid Al-Haj is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Multiculturalism at the University of Haifa\, where he also was a Vice President for Research. He has been a Visiting Professor at Carleton University (Canada)\, Duke University and Rutgers University (USA). In his academic work\, Prof. Al-Haj has focused on Israel Studies\, sociology of education\, political sociology\, inequalities\, immigration and comparative ethnic relations. \nProf. Al-Haj is the author of 14 books\, and over 100 articles in refereed journals and book chapters in various languages. Among the books he has published are: Education\, Empowerment and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel (NY: SUNY Press\, 1995) and Immigration and Ethnic Formation in a Deeply Divided Society: The Case of the 1990s Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers\, 2004). \nAlongside his academic pursuits\, he has led a number of pioneering nationwide projects and initiatives aimed at promoting social justice\, equality and diversity\, and enhancing dialogue and peace among Palestinians and Israelis. \nRSVP \nSponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\, Russian Flagship Program
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/ibrahim-book-talk-f18/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181116T210000
DTSTAMP:20181109T185142Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture - “Illustrating Russia: Comic Art\, Graphic Narratives & Book Illustration”
DESCRIPTION:Event Flier \n\nILLUSTRATING RUSSIA\nCOMIC ART\, GRAPHIC NARRATIVES & BOOK ILLUSTRATION\n\nFriday\, November 16th\, 2018\n7pm – 9pm\n362 Royce Hall\, UCLA\n\nDr. Julia Alekseyeva is a scholar\, writer and illustrator who specializes in non-fiction graphic narratives\, comic journalism\, and memoir. Her non-fiction historical memoir entitled Soviet Daughter (2017) won the 2017 VLA Diversity Award and has been featured on NPR\, Lilith\, Tablet\, The Week\, and the Rumpus\, among others. Her most recent work includes graphic narrative articles on Dziga Vertov and 1968. Dr. Alekseyeva received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Comparative Literature. Her academic work focuses on interactions between global media and radical leftist politics. Dr. Alekseyeva is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. \nVictoria Lomasko is a Moscow-based artist and author working in the genre of graphic journalism. She is the author of Forbidden Art (2011) which she co-wrote with Anton Nikolayev. Her new book Other Russias (2017)\, translated by Thomas Campbell\, was published by N+1 and Penguin and received the “Best Book in Translation”—2018 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. A graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts\, Lomasko describes herself as “the last Soviet artist” as her art draws heavily on the Soviet tradition of illustration and graphic design. Lomasko’s latest project is the mural design for the Grad gallery at the Somerset House in London. \nVladimir Zimakov is a printmaker and  illustrator\, an associate professor of art and design at Lasell College\, and director of the Wedeman gallery. He has illustrated books and designed book covers for the world’s leading publishing houses\, including Penguin\, Random House\, Faber and Faber\, the Folio Society\, and Vita Nova. His book illustrations include The Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol\, Moby Dick by Herman Melville\, Walpugisnacht and the Golem by Gustav Meyerink\, Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood\, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Zimakov holds an M.A. in Communication Design from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. \n\nFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nADDRESS\n10745 Dickson Ct.\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nPARKING\nStructure 2 | $12 | $8 Accessible Parking\nPlease visit the Information & Parking booth on\nWestholme Ave. and Hilgard Ave. for assistance. \n\nPresented by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures (orgnaizer) and the UCLA Center for European & Russian Studies (sponsor). \n\nEvent Flier
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/illustrating-russia-f18/
LOCATION:362 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T180000
DTSTAMP:20181126T211829Z
CREATED:20181013T001255Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Contemporary Russia
DESCRIPTION:Five undergraduate and graduate student presentations on contemporary Russian culture and politics \n\nProgram \n4:00-4:40\nYana Demeshko   |   Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\n“A Fifth Estate: The Contribution of Urban and Rural Youth to Russia’s Political Landscape” \nLeanna Kramer  |   Global Studies   |   Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\n“The Era of Fake News: An Examination of the History of Russian Disinformation” \n4:50-5:10\nAshley Blum   |   Political Science\n“Xenophobia in Russia: Dynamics of Public Opinion” \n5:10-5:30\nSasha Razor   |   Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\n“Graphic Narratives in Contemporary Russia (Graphic Novels and Comic Books)” \n5:30-5:50\nDane Reighard  |   Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\n“Trends in Contemporary Russian Film” \n5:50-6:00\nClosing remarks \nProgram \n\n\n \nFrom left to right:\nYana Demeshko\, Ashley Blum\, Leanna Kramer\, Dane Reighard\, and Sasha Razor
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-contemporary-russia-f18/
LOCATION:325 Botany\, 618 Charles E Young Dr S\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Kresin":MAILTO:kresin@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T200000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165624Z
CREATED:20181002T010543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T165624Z
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SUMMARY:Hungarian Film Screening: "Nussbaum 95736" (2017)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/nussbam-95736-film-screening/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Borbely":MAILTO:melindaborbely@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181019T130000
DTSTAMP:20181023T165635Z
CREATED:20181015T172718Z
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SUMMARY:Polish Film Screening - "Silent Night"
DESCRIPTION:Plot: Adam returns home to Poland to spend Christmas Eve with his family and share the news that his child will soon be born. He is not the first member of the family to leave the country to earn a living. His father ‘lost his health as a construction worker in Germany’\, and his uncle worked in Belgium for years. They all came back\, with money that was supposed to glue together broken family bonds. First Prize at Gdynia Film Festival in 2017. \nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol8i_tjy9zI
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/silent-night-f18/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Agnieszka Jezyk":MAILTO:agnieszkajezyk@ucla.edu
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