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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T123000
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SUMMARY:Polish Film Screening: "Day of Wacko" (2002)
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/polish-film-screening-050218/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Room 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T220000
DTSTAMP:20180428T012312Z
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SUMMARY:Hungarian Film Screening: "A Viszkis" (2017)
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/hungarian-film-screening-043018/
LOCATION:3400 Boelter Hall\, 580 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Borbely":MAILTO:melindaborbely@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180428T153000
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SUMMARY:UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 21st Annual \nUndergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies\nSaturday\, April 28\, 2018\nUCLA Kaplan Hall \nFor more information or to participate\, visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/. \n\nCall for Papers
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/ug-conf-2018/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall\, 405 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Winsky":MAILTO:winskypg@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T200000
DTSTAMP:20180208T193741Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry & Music Night (2018)
DESCRIPTION:Please 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. \n\nEvent flyer \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-music-night-2018/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T170000
DTSTAMP:20180302T204231Z
CREATED:20180118T012524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180302T204231Z
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SUMMARY:Reading and Q&A with Russian writer Linor Goralik\, author of "Found Life"
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Q&A with Russian writer Linor Goralik\, author of Found Life\n\nWednesday\, March 7th\, 2018 from 3-5pm\nUCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room (room 11348)\n  \nThis event is free and open to the public.  \n\nNote: The talk will be spoken primarily in English with some portions in Russian. \n\nLinor Goralik was born in 1975 in Dnepropetrovsk. She is a poet\, prose writer\, essayist\, and translator. She is an author of 20 books of poems and prose as well as children’s books. She has translated to Russian Etgar Keret’s novels and Vitautas Pliura’s poems (in collaboration with Stanislav Lvovsky). Since 2014 Linor Goralik has been Editor-in-Chief of the Booknik.ru internet portal which is dedicated to the Jewish literature and culture. She teaches Costume Theory in the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Linor Goralik won the Triumph Young Award (2003)\, Russian independent prize for excellence in literature and art\, and the Portal Award (2012)\, international prize for phantasy novels and critics. Lives and works in Moscow (Russia) and Tel-Aviv (Israel). \n\nEvent Flyer
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/goralik-talk/
LOCATION:UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room (room 11348)\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1575\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180223T170000
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SUMMARY:Pilshchikov Lecture - "Decoding the Language of Eugene Onegin:  Diachronic Challenges to Understanding Pushkin’s 'Novel in Verse'”
DESCRIPTION:“Decoding the Language of Eugene Onegin:\nDiachronic Challenges to Understanding Pushkin’s ‘Novel in Verse’”\n\nDr. Igor Pilshchikov\nVisiting Associate Professor\nUCLA \n\nFriday\, February 23\, 2018\n3:30-5pm\n348 Kaplan Hall\, UCLA \n\nThe 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 is the name she gives to the misreading and misunderstanding of a classical text that arise from the fact that we often interpret words and constructions in their contemporary sense rather than the sense which they carried in Pushkin’s lifetime. Such semantic shifts have taken place over a relatively small span of the history of the Russian language and are sometimes not easily recognizable even in well-known texts. The linguist Alexander Penkovsky wrote that this effect is “something similar to what are conventionally called ‘false friends’ in translation.” The lecture will outline a typology of now-archaic forms and diachronic “false friends” in Onegin that are often misread by Russian-speakers today\, as well as the resultant difficulties of translating Pushkin’s “novel in verse” into English. \n\nEvent Flyer
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/pilshchikov-talk/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T170000
DTSTAMP:20180212T192452Z
CREATED:20180212T192203Z
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SUMMARY:Mayofis Lecture - "The Topos of Woman's (Self)-Sacrifice in Late 1830s Russian Prose: Melodramatic Narratives in the Age of ‘Official Nation-Building’"
DESCRIPTION:“The Topos of Woman’s (Self)-Sacrifice in Late 1830s Russian Prose:\nMelodramatic Narratives in the Age of ‘Official Nation-Building’”\n\nDr. Maria Mayofis\nDotsent (Assistant Professor)\nSchool of Cultural Studies\nNational Research University\nHigher School of Economics\, Moscow \n \nFriday\, February 16th\, 20183:30pm – 5:00pm348 Kaplan Hall \n\nWhen discussing the plots of Russian “society tales” published in the 1830s and 40s\, we can discern two narrative models that have yet to be studied: the story of a “dead fiancée” and the story of a “self-sacrificing woman.” In the first case\, a fiancée dies either just before a marriage or immediately after it; in the second\, a woman denies herself happiness with her beloved in order to keep her family\, or rejects his love so that another woman can marry her sweetheart. \nShould these narrative models be viewed as a legacy of late romanticism? Do they reflect the standard “formulas” of a “society tale”? Or should we analyze these plots as representations of a deeper meaning that could shed new light on the interrelation between literature\, ideology\, and society in Russia in the 1830s and 40s? \n\nEvent Flyer
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/mayofis-lecture/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T170000
DTSTAMP:20180209T001526Z
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SUMMARY:Labunets Lecture - "Contemporary Russian Language" (in Russian)
DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Russian Language”\n(Lecture presented in Russian) \nProfessor Natalia Labunets\nHead of the Department of General Linguistics\nTyumen State University \nMonday\, February 12th\, 2018\n4pm – 5pm\n305 Kaplan Hall \n\nEvent flyer
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/labunets-lecture/
LOCATION:305 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Anna Kudyma":MAILTO:akudyma@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T170000
DTSTAMP:20180206T015559Z
CREATED:20180205T230857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T015559Z
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SUMMARY:Hanukai Lecture - "Anxious Visions: Pushkin’s 'The Bronze Horseman' and the Poetics of Late Romanticism"
DESCRIPTION:Anxious Visions:\nPushkin’s ‘The Bronze Horseman’ and the Poetics of Late Romanticism\n\nBy Dr. Maksim Hanukai\nVisiting Assistant Professor\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\n \n\nFriday\, February 09\, 2018\n03:30pm – 05:00pm\n 348 Kaplan Hall\, UCLA  \n\nFew works have fired up the tragic imagination of Russian readers as much as Pushkin’s narrative poem The Bronze Horseman. The tale of a Petersburg clerk who challenges a monument to Peter the Great after losing his fiancée (and his wits) in a devastating flood\, The Bronze Horseman has haunted the pages of Russian literature for almost two centuries\, inspiring not just a myriad new “Petersburg texts” but also a shift in the cultural mythology of Russia’s northern capital. Critics have long read The Bronze Horseman through the prism of tragic theory\, focusing primarily on Pushkin’s portrayal of conflict. This talk will take a different approach. Setting the poem in the context of Romantic theories of symbol and allegory\, I will focus on the problem of representation\, locating the philosophical and emotional basis for a new tragic vision in the unstable nature of Pushkin’s images. \n\nClick here to download the event flyer
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/hanukai-lecture/
LOCATION:Online TBD\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T220000
DTSTAMP:20180118T200542Z
CREATED:20180118T200326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T200542Z
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SUMMARY:Hope Against Hope - UCLA Alumni Chamber Music Society Concert
DESCRIPTION:Hope Against Hope – UCLA Alumni Chamber Music Society Concert\n\nTuesday\, January 30\, 8pm\nSchoenberg Hall\nFree Admission\n\nContinuing 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 traditional chamber music repertoire\, and a literary presentation in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages which highlights a premiere of a new work by UCLA alumni composer\, Joshua Rodriguez\, commissioned by Myroslava Khomik. \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/hope-against-hope/
LOCATION:Schoenberg Hall\, 445 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180126T180000
DTSTAMP:20180124T003952Z
CREATED:20180124T003952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T003952Z
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SUMMARY:Special Preview Performance of Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
DESCRIPTION:Special Preview Performance of\nModest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death\n\nJanuary 26\, 2018 @ 4PM in Schoenberg Hall\, UCLA\n\nFREE ADMISSION\n\nArtists:\nVladimir CHERNOV\, Baritone\nNeal STULBERG\, Piano \nwith Introduction by Prof. Ronald Vroon\nProfessor and Chair of the UCLA Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/special-preview-performance-modest-mussorgsky-songs-dances-death/
LOCATION:Schoenberg Hall\, 445 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171206T200000
DTSTAMP:20171207T173506Z
CREATED:20170627T195950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171207T173506Z
UID:3643-1512585000-1512590400@dev.slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Annual Holiday Celebration (2017)
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE SKIRBALL FIRE.\n\nJoin us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! \nWednesday\, December 06\, 2017\n 06:30pm – 08:00pm\n 314 Royce Hall \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-2017/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171201T133000
DTSTAMP:20171127T173628Z
CREATED:20171017T182515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171127T173628Z
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SUMMARY:Polish Movie Screening: "Papusza"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a Polish movie screening of \n“Papusza”\nby Director Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze  \nFriday\, December 1st\, 2017\n11:30am – 01:30pm\n311 Kaplan Hall\, UCLA  \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/polish-movie-screening-papusza/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T130000
DTSTAMP:20171113T213122Z
CREATED:20171113T213122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T213122Z
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SUMMARY:Hungarian Movie Screening: "Kincsem"
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/hungarian-movie-screening-kincsem/
LOCATION:305 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Borbely":MAILTO:melindaborbely@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T160000
DTSTAMP:20171017T182254Z
CREATED:20171017T182254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T182254Z
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SUMMARY:Polish Movie Screening: "All That I Love"
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for a Polish movie screening of \n  \n“All That I Love” \nby Director Jacek Borcuch \n  \nNovember 6th\, 2017 \n2:00-4:00pm \n311 Kaplan Hall\, UCLA  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/polish-movie-screening-love/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall (formerly the Kaplan Hall)\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171024T200000
DTSTAMP:20171018T001705Z
CREATED:20171018T001322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171018T001705Z
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SUMMARY:Russian Movie Screening: "Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano"
DESCRIPTION:118 Haines Hall \n\nJoin the students of Russian 1 for a screening of Nikita Mikhalkov’s \n“Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианина”  \n(“Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano”) \nTuesday\, October 24 at 6pm in 118 Haines Hall at UCLA \nLight snacks and drinks to be provided \n\n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/russian-movie-screening-player-piano/
LOCATION:118 Haines Hall\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171022T170000
DTSTAMP:20171020T005129Z
CREATED:20170825T230758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T005129Z
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Andriy Lyubka
DESCRIPTION:306 Royce Hall\, UCLA \n\n UCLA Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures presents… \nAn Afternoon with Andriy Lyubka \nUkrainian poet\, translator and essayist \n \nSunday\, October 22\, 2017\n3pm – 5pm\n306 Royce Hall \nAndriy Lyubka was born in 1987 in Riga\, Latvia. He completed degrees in Ukrainian Philology at Uzhhorod University (2009) and in Balkan Studies at the University of Warsaw (2014). He is the author of three books of poetry – Eight Months of Schizophrenia (2007)\, TERRORISM (2008)\, and Forty Bucks Plus Tip (2009) – and five books of prose – KILLER: A Collection of Stories (2012)\, Sleeping with Women (2014)\, Carbide (2015)\, A Room for Sorrow (2016) and Saudade (2017).  His writings have been translated into Polish\, Chinese\, English\, Portuguese\, Russian\, Czech\, Serbian\, Macedonian\, Slovak\, Lithuanian\, Romanian\, Turkish and German. He also works as a translator\, having published several translations from Polish\, Serbian and English into Ukrainian.  He is a columnist for Radio Liberty\, Den and Zbruch.  He has been a curator for the literary festivals Kyivski Lavry and Meridian Czernowitz and has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland\, Latvia\, Romania\, Hungary\, Sweden and Austria. \n\nCLICK HERE to view the event flyer \n\nFor event parking\, enter campus via Sunset Blvd / Westwood Plaza. Please park in Structure 4 via Pay-by-Plate visitor parking. Take the elevator or stairs in the parking structure up to the ground level. Walk across Wilson Plaza and up Janss Steps to reach Royce Hall (on the left at the top of Janss Steps). If you need disabled parking\, please visit the Parking & Information Booth on Strathmore Pl / Westwood Plaza to obtain a permit. For your reference\, a campus map is attached. \n\n[gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/afternoon-andriy-lyubka/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T170000
DTSTAMP:20170929T004137Z
CREATED:20170922T172347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T004137Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture feat. Dr. Mykola Riabchuk
DESCRIPTION:311 Kaplan Hall\, UCLA \n\n UCLA Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures presents… \nGuest Lecture feat. Dr. Mykola Riabchuk \nSenior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies\nAcademy of Sciences of Ukraine \n \nMonday\, October 9th\, 2017\n3:30pm – 5pm\n311 Kaplan Hall \nMykola Riabchuk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies\, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also the president of Ukrainian PEN-center and a co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Krytyka monthly. Born in 1953 in the city of Lutsk\, he spent his adolescent years in Lviv\, where he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in 1977\, and eventually from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow in 1988. He penned a few books and many articles on civil society\, state/nation building\, nationalism\, national identity\, and postcommunist transition in Eastern Europe\, particularly in Ukraine. He holds a number of national awards and international fellowships\, and heads the jury of the Angelus literary award endowed by the city Wroclaw for the best book by a Central East European writer published in Poland. \n\nCLICK HERE to view the event flyer \n\n[gravityform id=”9″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/riabchuk-lecture/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall (formerly the Kaplan Hall)\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170927T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170927T140000
DTSTAMP:20170925T183123Z
CREATED:20170627T182258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T183123Z
UID:3590-1506515400-1506520800@dev.slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Departmental Open House (2017)
DESCRIPTION:311 Kaplan Hall \n\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to join us in celebrating a new academic year at our annual Departmental Open House! Come and get to know your classmates\, professors\, and departmental academic counselor! \nRSVP now\, below!  \nRSVP is not required\, but preferred for planning purposes. You can still attend if you don’t RSVP.  \n\n[gravityform id=”5″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/open-house-2017/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Olga Kagan":MAILTO:okagan@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170927T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170927T123000
DTSTAMP:20170925T183053Z
CREATED:20170627T184823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T183053Z
UID:3598-1506510000-1506515400@dev.slavic.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Russian Placement Exam (2017)
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab @ Rolfe (2118 Rolfe Hall) \n\nThe Russian Placement Exam is given once a year\, on Wednesday during zero week of the Fall Quarter. If you have a problem taking the exam on this day\, please contact okagan@ucla.edu or akudyma@ucla.edu. \nThe exam takes ~90 minutes to complete and consists of the following sections: grammar\, reading comprehension\, listening comprehension\, speaking\, and writing. Please visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/languages/placement-exams/ for more details. \nThis exam is for UCLA students only. Please email sbauckus@international.ucla.edu for information about the Russian exam for high school students. \n  \nSign-up to take the exam\, below. \n\nWe will be hosting our annual open house immediately following the placement exam. If you’re interested in attending\, please visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/event/open-house-2017/ for event details.  \n\n[gravityform id=”6″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/russian-placement-exam-2017/
LOCATION:The Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab @ Rolfe (2118 Rolfe Hall)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Anya Ice":MAILTO:annaice@ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T200000
DTSTAMP:20170524T004347Z
CREATED:20170523T234050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T004347Z
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SUMMARY:Multicultural Performance Night
DESCRIPTION:MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT\nA Showcase of Diversity & Talent\n– \nWednesday\, June 7th\, 2017\n6 – 8 pm\n314 Royce Hall\n– \nTryouts are every Tuesday from 5:30-6:30pm in 343 Kaplan Hall \nGroup acts are welcome. All performers must be UCLA students. \nPrizes will be awarded to the best acts. \nShow off your talent and enjoy the evening of fun and entertainment! \n– \nSponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and the Russian Club @ UCLA 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/multicultural-folklore-night/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170604T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170604T170000
DTSTAMP:20170531T165901Z
CREATED:20170516T204802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T165901Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Dmitry Bykov: "Бродский как поэт русского мира"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Dmitry Bykov: \n“Бродский как поэт русского мира”\n– \nSunday\, June 4th\n3:30pm – 5:00pm\n314 Royce Hall\, UCLA\n– \nUCLA Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures with support from USRF is happy to invite you to Dmitry Bykov’s lecture on Joseph Brodsky. The lecture will be followed by a discussion and a reception. \n– \nThe event is FREE and open to the public. \n– \nThe lecture and the discussion will be conducted entirely in Russian. \n– \nClick here to download the event flyer \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/lecture-dmitry-bykov-%d0%b1%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b4%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%ba-%d0%bf%d0%be%d1%8d%d1%82-%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be-%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b0/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Sasha Razor":MAILTO:sasharazor@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170516T171500
DTSTAMP:20170516T165920Z
CREATED:20170513T012035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T165920Z
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Trunin Talk - “Juri Lotman in the Soviet Debates on Structuralism (1965–1972)"
DESCRIPTION:  \nMIKHAIL TRUNIN\nResearch Fellow\, Tallinn University\n– \nJuri Lotman in the Soviet Debates\non Structuralism (1965–1972)\n– \nTuesday\, May 16\, 2017\n4:00 pm\n348 Kaplan Hall\n– \nIn his presentation Mikhail Trunin will discuss the polemics on structural methods of studying literary texts that started in the Soviet journals of the mid-1960s. He will be reviewing Juri Lotman’s article “Литературоведение должно быть наукой” (“The Study of Literature Must be an Exact Science”)\, in which he opposes such literary scholars as Pyotr Palievsky (who advocated the intuitive study of literature) and Valerian Kozhinov (one of the best known partisans of Mikhail Bakhtin). He will examine what consequences this “fight for structuralism” had for Lotman and his publishing projects\, focusing on two of Lotman’s publication projects devoted to semiotics that were organized at the beginning of 1970s. One is the series of books planned for publication with the Moscow publishing house “Искусство” (‘Art’)\, which was eventually banned. The other is an unknown collection of articles on comparative literary studies and typology of culture planned for publishing in Erevan (Armenia) but also unpublished. He will discuss the history of the afore-mentioned collection and focus on how Lotman’s contribution to it proceeds from cultural typology to the beginnings of cultural semiotics. \n– \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMikhail Trunin received his PhD in Russian Literature from Moscow State University 2010. His research has focused on nineteenth-century Russian literature and Russian and East European literary theory\, primarily Juri Lotman. Since 2011 he has been studying and processing the Lotman archive as a research fellow at Tallinn University in Estonia\, and has prepared an annotated edition of Lotman’s correspondence with Boris Uspensky (2016). \n– \nCLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE EVENT FLYER
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/mkkhail-trunin-talk-juri-lotman-soviet-debates-structuralism-1965-1972/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T153000
DTSTAMP:20170429T004729Z
CREATED:20170425T230742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170429T004729Z
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SUMMARY:UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 20th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies! The conference will be taking place on Saturday\, April 29\, 2017 in the Kaplan Hall at UCLA. \nThe conference will begin with coffee and refreshments at 9:30am in Humanities 348 followed by opening remarks at 10am in Humanities A51. \nClick here to view the program \nPlease contact Michael Lavery or Inna Munroe if you have any questions. \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/uc/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170428T153000
DTSTAMP:20170428T182718Z
CREATED:20170425T224719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T182718Z
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SUMMARY:Artur Klinau Lecture - Minsk: The Sun City of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free lecture featuring Artur Klinau on Friday\, April 28\, 2017 at 2pm in 311 Kaplan Hall. \nARTUR KLINAU (born 1965) is a key player in the nonconformist art movement in contemporary Belarus. A kulturträger\, artist\, writer\, and filmmaker\, Klinau has been a fixture on the Belarusian and post-Soviet cultural scene for the past three decades. In 1998\, he founded the Belarusian Association of Contemporary Art and still serves as its leader. He also conceived NAVINKI\, the only Belarusian festival of performance art. In 2012\, Klinau was included in the national Belarusian exhibition at the 54th International Biennale in Venice. In his career\, Klinau has participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions and more than thirty personal exhibitions. \nKlinau began his work in the 1980s as a painter and a participant in the Minsk underground movement of the 1990s. With Lukashenko’s rise to power in 1994\, Klinau transitioned to installation art\, with pieces including The Death of Pioneer 1 and 2 (1995-2000)\, The Columbarium of World Literature (1998)\, Palacci Per Ucelli (2001)\, A Sweet Straw Life (2003\, 2005)\, Partisan Boutique Transportable (2006)\, and The Last Supper (2012). \nIn 2002\, Klinau founded pARTisan\, a magazine of contemporary art. As the chief editor of pARTisan\, Klinau maintains the magazine and an online multimedia platform that supports the Belarusian contemporary art movement\, fostering its production and criticism. pARTisan remains one of the few spaces where post-Soviet Belarusian cultural identity is articulated and negotiated. \nIn 2006\, Artur Klinau wrote Minsk. The Sun City of Dreams\, a book dedicated to his utopian vision of the city of Minsk. The book was first published in Germany and was later translated into Polish\, Swedish\, Hungarian\, and Russian. His novel Shalom. A War Novel. (2011) was translated into Russian and German\, and another novel\, Shklatara (2013)\, received the Giedroyc Prize in Belarus (2014). \nSince 2009\, Klinau has been working in the film industry\, collaborating with the Belarusian director Andrei Kudzinenka. Klinau worked as an art director of the mystical thriller Massacre (2010)\, Hard Reboot (2014)\, and as a screenwriter for another mystical thriller\, The Nobleman Zawalnia (2010). This film is based on famous literary work by the nineteenth-century century Belarusian writer Jan Barszczewski\, one of the early texts articulating Belarusian identity.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/artur-klinau-lecture-minsk-sun-city-dreams/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Sasha Razor":MAILTO:sasharazor@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T193000
DTSTAMP:20170303T005526Z
CREATED:20170303T005509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T005526Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Music Night
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \ninvites you to its annual 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-music-night/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T173000
DTSTAMP:20170207T234547Z
CREATED:20170118T003500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170207T234547Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Karenina in the Twenty-first Century: Shapify!
DESCRIPTION:Nearly 150 years after its writing\, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina continues to offer up new insights to readers and translators alike\, discoveries arguably made possible by the passage of time. The novel’s most recent translation\, by Marian Schwartz\, takes a hard look at Tolstoy as a stylist and how he wielded aesthetics to bring home moral principles. In her talk\, Schwartz will argue for a language-centric view of this masterpiece of Russian—and world—literature. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \n  \n\n  \nMarian Schwartz began her career in literary translation in 1978 with her translation of Landmarks\, a 1909 collection of essays on the Russian intelligentsia written by some of Russia’s most eminent philosophers of the day. In the nearly four decades since then she has published over seventy-five volumes of fiction and nonfiction—biography\, criticism\, fine arts\, and history. In that time\, she has received a number of awards\, including the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature\, for her translation of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Harlequin’s Costume and\, most recently\, the Soeurette Diehl Frasier Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for her translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. \nSchwartz studied Russian at Harvard University\, Middlebury Russian School\, and Leningrad State University and received a Master of Arts in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975\, after which she headed to New York to try her hand at publishing. Two years as an assistant editor for Praeger Publishers led to the freelancer’s life\, which she has embraced ever since\, including a five-year engagement translating the quarterly Russian Studies in Literature. \nIn recent years\, Schwartz has retranslated several Russian classics—Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time\, Yuri Olesha’s Envy\, Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard\, Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov\, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina—but remains committed nonetheless to contemporary Russian literature. Current authors include Olga Slavnikova\, Andrei Gelasimov\, Leonid Yuzefovich\, Mikhail Shishkin\, and Sergei Kuznetsov; in 2011\, AmazonCrossing published her translation of Gelasimov’s Thirst\, followed in subsequent years by his The Lying Year\, Gods of the Steppe\, Rachel\, and Into the Thickening Fog. \nSchwartz is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association and the recipient of two Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nFor more\, go to her website: www.marianschwartz.com
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/anna-karenina-twenty-first-century-shapify/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg Room 311
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161212
DTSTAMP:20161206T175417Z
CREATED:20161206T175405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161206T175417Z
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SUMMARY:Far From Moscow Festival
DESCRIPTION:Do join us for the Far From Moscow Festival. Bring your friends\, family\, or business partners and see how the world’s biggest country connects to Hollywood!\n  \nA new wave of Russian artists has appeared; the sounds and visions of the future. Please join us at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) for the FFM Festival. Experience and celebrate an alternative brand of Russian culture in film\, music\, cuisine\, fashion\, and comics. Join our non-profit cause to both sponsor and promote Pacific Rim arts. \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/far-moscow-festival/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T200000
DTSTAMP:20161109T192236Z
CREATED:20161109T192042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161109T192236Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! Our talented students will perform holiday songs\, poems\, skits\, and more to ring in the holiday season.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/slavic-holiday-celebration/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161025T200000
DTSTAMP:20161020T183332Z
CREATED:20161020T182812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161020T183332Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening -- Home Guard
DESCRIPTION:Home Guards is a powerful drama about two brothers – Máté and Joci – who live in a small Eastern European town. They are recruited by a charismatic leader to join the Home Guards and take a stand against crime.\nThe boys are happy because\, for the very first time in their lives\, they feel a sense of real belonging. But things get slowly out of hand as the Guards become an uncontrollable political force.\nWhen Máté refuses to cover up a racist crime\, he finds himself classed as an enemy of the Guards and at loggerheads with his own brother.\nQ&A with director (and UCLA alumna)\, Krisztina Goda and leading actor\, Ivan Fenyo to follow screening. \nCo-sponsor: The Hungarian Club at UCLA
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-home-guard/
LOCATION:Haines Hall\, Rm A44
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