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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://dev.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/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 311
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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
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/how-soviet-prison-subculture-shapes-the-russian-political-landscape/
LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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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://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-dmitriev-affair-film-screening-and-qa-with-director-jessica-gorter/
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SUMMARY:27th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures is proud to present the 27th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies. The conference will take place on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2024 from 8:00 am – 5:30 pm. Breakfast\, lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please note: Times are all in Pacific Time Zone (PDT) \nPLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PRESENTATION BY 12PM ON 4/26/2024: Presentation Submission \n[gravityform id=”46″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nLOCATION \nKaplan Hall 135\nPortola Plaza 415\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nEnter Kaplan Hall from the south ground-floor entrance to the left of the staircase. We are meeting in room 135\, which can be accessed via elevator from the ground floor (A level). Kaplan Hall is located next door to the Powell Library. \nPARKING \nFor Non-UCLA Affiliates:\nIf you are driving\, you will want to enter the campus using the Hilgard and Westholme entrance and park in Parking Structure Two. Once inside\, proceed to the bottom-most level to the “pay-by-plate” area (visitor parking). Having parked\, please go to the nearest pay station machine. There is a $10 all day parking rate for Structure 2. \nGoogle maps link: Parking Structure 2\nCampus parking map\nUCLA Visitor Parking Instructions \nThe second closest parking lot is Parking Structure 4. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first served basis. Please plan on arriving early to the event if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures.  \nFor UCLA faculty\, students & staff:\nActive Bruin ePemit Holders can request a “Transfer Permit” to cross-park in an alternate lot or structure on campus at no additional cost according to the privileges of your permit type. Check the Parking Permit Privileges for details. \n– You can obtain a 1-Day cross-parking permit through the Bruin ePermit Portal\, excluding Night and Weekend permit holders. The 1-Day cross parking permit is valid for same-day use only.\n– Faculty and staff may receive a maximum of five (5) cross-parking permits per quarter.\n– Please note\, Cross Parking (Transfer) Permits will vary depending on parking space availability.\n– To request a “Transfer Permit” please follow these instructions \nLODGING \nFor travelers visiting UCLA\, the local  hotels listed on this page have established agreements with the UC Travel Center to provide discounted rates to University travelers. Discounts are subject to change at any moment. \nUCLA Campus: \n\nUCLA Luskin Conference Center (on Campus)\n\n\n\nAlumni\, Bruin Family including students\, regular visitors\, and medical patients can use this link for personal stay at the Luskin: https://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/all-specials/(link is external)\n\n\n\n\nHotel Angeleno\nHotel Kimpton Palomar\nLuxe Sunset\n\nTo make reservations\, contact UC Travel Center at (310) 206-2639 or email them at travel@finance.ucla.edu(link sends email) or book via UCLA Concur Travel Online. \nOther nearby hotels:\nUCLA Guest House\nThe Tiverton\nPalihotel Westwood Village\n\nProgram
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-east-central-european-studies-2/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 135
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T080000
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SUMMARY:The 2024 CA Graduate Slavic Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Please register for the event below.  \n[gravityform id=”48″ title=”false” description=”true” ajax=”true”]\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures is proud to present the 2024 California Graduate Slavic Colloquium. We would like to express our gratitude to the University of California Humanities Institute and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies for their generous support of this year’s colloquium. The conference will take place on Saturday\, April 20th\, 2024 from 8:00 am – 6:00 pm. Breakfast\, lunch and refreshments will be provided. \nPlease note: Times are all in Pacific Time Zone (PDT) \nLOCATION\nKaplan Hall A65\n415 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \n\n\n\nEnter Kaplan Hall from the south ground-floor entrance to the left of the staircase. We are meeting in A65 on the ground floor\, which can be accessed directly without climbing any stairs. Kaplan Hall is located next door to the Powell Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTECHNOLOGY IN KAPLAN HALL A65 \nThe conference room is equipped with a computer\, projector\, USB ports\, and VGA inputs. \nIf your presentation includes a visual component\, please come with your own device and appropriate adapter for connecting to the classroom computer via VGA. You can also bring a USB drive with your presentation and we highly recommend that you  email your presentation to yourself as a backup.  \n\n\n\nPARKING \nFrom Hilgard driving south\, turn right onto Westholme toward the UCLA campus\, and take the first left into the North entrance of Parking Structure #2. From Hilgard driving north\, turn left onto Manning toward the UCLA campus\, and then take the first right into the south entrance of Parking Structure #2. \nGoogle maps link: Parking Structure 2\nCampus parking map \nThe second closest parking lot is Parking Structure 4. Guest parking is available on a first come\, first serve basis. Please plan on arriving early to the event if you are not familiar with the campus or parking structures.  \nFor Non-UCLA Affiliates:\nIf you are driving\, you will want to enter the campus using the Hilgard and Westholme entrance and park in Parking Structure Two. Once inside\, proceed to the bottom-most level to the “pay-by-plate” area (visitor parking). Having parked\, please go to the nearest pay station machine. There is a $10 all day parking rate for Structure 2. \nUCLA Visitor Parking Instructions \nFor UCLA faculty\, students & staff:\nActive Bruin ePemit Holders can request a “Transfer Permit” to cross-park in an alternate lot or structure on campus at no additional cost according to the privileges of your permit type. Check the Parking Permit Privileges for details. \n– You can obtain a 1-Day cross-parking permit through the Bruin ePermit Portal\, excluding Night and Weekend permit holders. The 1-Day cross parking permit is valid for same-day use only.\n– Faculty and staff may receive a maximum of five (5) cross-parking permits per quarter.\n– Please note\, Cross Parking (Transfer) Permits will vary depending on parking space availability.\n– To request a “Transfer Permit” please follow these instructions \nLODGING \nFor travelers visiting UCLA\, the local  hotels listed on this page have established agreements with the UC Travel Center to provide discounted rates to University travelers. Discounts are subject to change at any moment. \nUCLA Campus: \n\nUCLA Luskin Conference Center (on Campus)\n\n\n\nAlumni\, Bruin Family including students\, regular visitors\, and medical patients can use this link for personal stay at the Luskin: https://luskinconferencecenter.ucla.edu/all-specials/(link is external)\n\n\n\n\nHotel Angeleno\nHotel Kimpton Palomar\nLuxe Sunset\n\nTo make reservations\, contact UC Travel Center at (310) 206-2639 or email us at travel@finance.ucla.edu(link sends email) or book via UCLA Concur Travel Online. \nOther nearby hotels:\nUCLA Guest House\nThe Tiverton\nPalihotel Westwood Village\n\n  \nProgram
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-2024-ca-graduate-slavic-colloquium/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall A65
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING AND DIRECTOR Q&A:  Agniia Galdanova's queer dissident documentary film "QUEENDOM"
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 19th\, 2024\n6:30 PM\nJames Bridges Theater \nPlease register for the event below.  \n[gravityform id=”44″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\nPlease contact mmarrianna@g.ucla.edu if you experience any issues registering for the film screening.  \nThe UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures (SEEELC)\, in collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television\, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS)\, and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\, invites you to a screening of Agniia Galdanova’s dissident Russian documentary film “Queendom\,” which will be followed by a Q&A session with the director. View the trailer here. \nFilm Synopsis: \nGena\, a queer artist from a small town in Russia\, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape\, and protests the government on the streets of Moscow. Born and raised on the harsh streets of Magadan\, a frigid outpost of the Soviet gulag\, Gena is only 21. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism. By doing that\, she wants to change people’s perception of beauty and queerness and bring attention to the harassment of the LGBTQ+ community. Their performances – often dark\, strange\, evocative\, and queer at their core – are a manifestation of Gena’s subconscious. But they come at a price. \nAbout the Director: \nAgniia Galdanova is a Sundance and IDFA-supported documentary film director. Her previous film\, “One Step Forward\, One Step Back\,” about a family’s dream to live far from civilization in the Altai Mountains\, premiered at the Message to Man International Film Festival. Her work focuses on complex human relationships told through immersive observational language. Her new film QUEENDOM about a young queer artist Gena Marvin premiered at SXSW 2023 in Documentary Competition. \n\n\n\n\nVenue\nJames Bridges Theater\n235 Charles E Young Dr E\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \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: queendom_poster_2.jpg \nSponsor(s): Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures (SEEELC)\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television\, Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS)\, Luskin Center for History and Policy
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/queendom-screening-presented-by-director-producer-agniia-galdanova/
LOCATION:James Bridges Theater\, 235 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T160000
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SUMMARY:Are Russians Resisting Putin? What Russian Court Data Says About the Scale of Repression Under Putin
DESCRIPTION:The Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) invite you to a talk by Roman Badanin\, Russian journalist in exile and the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt and Agentstvo\, entitled “Are Russians Resisting Putin? What Russian Court Data Says About the Scale of Repression Under Putin”. His talk will be followed by discussion with Professor Daniel Treisman\, UCLA Political Science\, about the state of the Russian media landscape looks under Putin and audience Q&A. This event will take place at the UCLA Hershey Hall Salon on Tuesday\, February 27th at 4pm. Register today! \nAbout the Speaker\nRoman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project) and Agentstvo (The Agency)\, media organizations that have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country. He started Agentstvo in the summer of 2021 after Russian authorities outlawed Proekt\, the nonprofit investigative news organization he founded in 2018 during his 2018 JSK Fellowship that was modeled after the U.S. nonprofit investigative news outlet\, ProPublica. It was Russia’s first nonprofit news organization. A current CDDRL-JSK Visiting Fellow at Stanford University\, Badanin has been working as a journalist in leading independent Russian news organizations for 20 years. He previously was deputy editor-in-chief at Gazeta.Ru\, editor-in-chief at Forbes Digital (Russia)\, RBC News Agency\, and editor-in-chief of Dozhd (TV Rain)\, an independent Russian TV channel. He has also been affiliated with the Gorbachev Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences as a researcher and studied history at Moscow State University. \nVenue\nHershey Hall Salon\n801 Hilgard Ave\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Parking Structure 2 is closest to the event venue. Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about where to park and how to pay. \nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, Department of Political Science
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/are-russians-resisting-putin-what-russian-court-data-says-about-the-scale-of-repression-under-putin/
LOCATION:Hershey Hall Salon
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SUMMARY:Boris Dralyuk at the Hammer Museum
DESCRIPTION:Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume\, My Hollywood and Other Poems\, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. The Poetry Foundation proclaimed that “the ache of exile reverberates against the irretrievability of the past” in the Odessa-born poet’s work. \nBoris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books\, 2022)\, editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press\, 2016)\, co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015)\, and the translator of volumes by Isaac Babel\, Andrey Kurkov\, Leo Tolstoy\, Maxim Osipov\, and other authors. His poems\, translations\, and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books\, the Times Literary Supplement\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, Best American Poetry 2023\, and elsewhere\, and he is the recipient\, most recently\, of the 2022 Gregg Barrios Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books\, he is currently a Presidential Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. \nSign up for the Hammer Museum Newsletter to stay updated on upcoming events and exhibitions\, and to visit our website for the latest updates on this program and more. \nFull event details and RSVP: https://alumni.ucla.edu/event/boris-dralyuk/
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/boris-dralyuk-at-the-hammer-museum/
LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231127T180000
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party and Showcase Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages & Cultures for our annual Holiday Party and Showcase event on Monday\, November 27th at 6:00PM in 314 Royce Hall! We will be enjoying an evening of cultural festivities including musical performances\, poetry recitations\, dancing\, skits\, and much more. Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-and-showcase-event/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T170000
DTSTAMP:20231018T221410Z
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SUMMARY:A Humanitarian Aid Kit of War Songs: A Bilingual Reading with Ukrainian Poet Iya Kiva
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at Royce Hall\, Room 306 for “A Humanitarian Aid Kit of War Songs: A Bilingual Reading with Ukrainian Poet Iya Kiva.” Professor Lilya Kaganovsky (UCLA) will moderate. \nIya Kiva is a poet\, translator\, and journalist. She was born in Donetsk and fled the war in 2014 to settle in Kyiv. Shortly after arriving\, she began shifting from writing in her native Russian to writing in her second language\, Ukrainian. She is the author of two volumes of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards for her poetry and translation. She is currently a fellow at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-humanitarian-aid-kit-of-war-songs-a-bilingual-reading-with-ukrainian-poet-iya-kiva/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T140000
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SUMMARY:SEEELC Departmental Open House
DESCRIPTION:The 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 and professors and learn about our majors\, minors\, and the Russian Flagship program. Light refreshments will be served. \n  \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/seeelc-departmental-open-house-2/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T200000
DTSTAMP:20230829T112740Z
CREATED:20230815T041749Z
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SUMMARY:2023 Russian Flagship Virtual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Register For 2023 Russian Virtual Open House\n  \nOn September 12\, 2023 from 7-8 PM EST\, the Russian Flagship will host an open house and interactive webinar. Register if you are interested in learning about the unique features of the Russian Flagship Program and hear from Russian Flagship program staff\, and current Flagship students. This event is being collaboratively organized by the eight U.S. universities that currently host Russian Flagship Programs. Register here\, or by clicking the flyer below:
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/2023-russian-flagship-virtual-open-house/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T190000
DTSTAMP:20230523T165005Z
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SUMMARY:Cinema\, Culture and The Spirit of Time
DESCRIPTION:Vladimir Paperny\, SEEELC Adjunct Professor\, author of the bestseller Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two\, translated into several languages\, the Russian-language novel Schultz’ Archive\, short-listed for the Big Book Award\, and other publications\, recently published a book based on the work he started with the late Maya Turovskaya—a comparative analysis of Soviet and American cinema of the 1930s–1960s\, Cinema\, Culture\, and the Spirit of Time (NLO\, 2022\, in Russian). \nPaperny’s ability to see connections between disparate areas of culture caught the attention of Maya Turovskaya (1924–2019)\, a prominent theater and film critic and historian\, who invited him\, despite a 20-year age gap\, to collaborate on the Soviet-American films project. Their comparative analysis of films from the 1930s–1940s provided implications beyond the realm of Film Studies\, moving closer to Cultural Studies. The first PowerPoint presentation of their project was shown at the Kennan Institute in 2008 and received a positive response. \nA few months before her death\, Turovskaya sent Paperny all her archives relayed to the project with a request “You have to turn this work into a book.” Paperny immediately set to work. He expanded the timespan of the project to the 1960s\, adding films of the “Thaw” he and Turovskaya never discussed\, as well as the history of his friendship and collaboration with Turovskaya going back to the 1950s. \nCinema\, Culture\, and the Spirit of Time
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/cinema-culture-and-the-spirit-of-time/
LOCATION:311 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T133000
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SUMMARY:Astronomers\, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez\, a 15th Century Central European Humanist
DESCRIPTION:TOMISLAV MATIĆ\nFulbright Postdoctoral Fellow\nResearch Associate\, Croatian Institute for History \nAstronomers\, Theologians and Vagabonds – The Cultural Circle of Bishop John Vitez\, a 15th Century Central European Humanist\n\nWednesday\, May 10\, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Royce 236 \nThis lecture will show that Eastern Central Europe was a participant in broader European cultural movements as early as the 15th century. For more information\, please go to this lecture’s listing on our website.\nCo-sponsored by UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies\, UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, and UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. \n\nUCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\ncmrs@humnet.ucla.edu  |  cmrs.ucla.edu
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/astronomers-theologians-and-vagabonds-the-cultural-circle-of-bishop-john-vitez-a-15th-century-central-european-humanist/
LOCATION:236 Royce
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T190000
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SUMMARY:From Soviet Hell to the Putin Nightmare
DESCRIPTION:Two Literary Protest Almanachs: Metropol (1979) and VYKHOD (2022)\n\nOffering a timely perspective on the literary and political landscape of modern-day Russia\, this presentation will discuss two literary protest almanacs\, Metropol (1978) and VYKHOD (2022)\, which feature contemporary non-conformist Russian writers. The Metropol almanac was a collection of uncensored texts by well-known writers including Vladimir Vysotsky\, Bella Akhmadulina\, and Andrei Voznesensky\, among others. Metropol was self-published in Moscow in December 1978 in a run of 12 copies and was then smuggled to the United States\, where it was reprinted by Ardis Publishing in 1979. VYKHOD (Exit) is a new project by Erofeiev\, featuring a collection of contemporary Russian non-conformist writers\, most of whom left Russia after the start of Putin’s war against Ukraine. VYKHOD features work by prose authors\, Vladimir Sorokin and Liudmila Ulitskaya\, poets Andrei Makarevich and Boris Grebenschikov\, and a new name\, Alexandre Delfinov\, among others. While VYKHOD showcases writers who fled Russia after Putin began the war\, Metropol collected texts that could not be published in the Soviet Union. The comparison of these two collections highlights the evolution of contemporary Russian literature and offers insights into the country’s history\, politics\, and society. Erofeiev will explore the differences between Metropol’s hopefulness and VYKHOD’s despair\, themes of disillusion\, and the weakness of liberal resources in Russian society. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.\n\n\nSpeaker\nBorn in Moscow in 1947\, Victor Erofeiev is a well-known writer\, television\, and radio personality. His father was Stalin’s personal interpreter for French. He became known worldwide for his novel Russian Beauty\, published in 1989 and translated into 27 languages. In 1979 he was expelled from the USSR Writers’ Union for his participation in the literary anthology Metropol\, which included texts that were banned by Soviet censors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union\, he republished this almanac. Erofeiev’s writing\, particularly his novel Encyclopedia of the Russian Soul (1999)\, has been controversial among Russian nationalists. (1999). Erofeev’s contributions to literature have earned him numerous accolades\, including the Legion d’Honneur and the Ordre d’Art et Letters in France and the Kommandor Cross in Poland. Besides writing\, Erofeiev has taught and lectured around the world in English\, French\, Russian\, and Polish. He contributes regularly to German newspapers\, including FAZ\, Die Zeit\, and Die Welt. In March 2022\, Erofeiev left Russia and is now a professor of literature at Luneburg University in Germany. In April 2023\, he published a collection of essays titled Naked Russia\, dedicated to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In his most recent work\, The Great Gopnik\, to be published by Matthes & Seitz later this year\, he relates his biography to that of Vladimir Putin. \n  \nAdditional Links: \n\nhttps://www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/eventreader/behind-putin-s-curtain-encyclopedia-of-russian-soul.html\nhttps://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-%27gopnik%27-Putin-and-Russian-Russophobia–56883.html\n\n  \nSponsor(s): Center for World Languages\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/from-soviet-hell-to-the-putin-nightmare/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230429T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230429T160000
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Click here for more information
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T173000
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SUMMARY:Yes\, Russia is Still an Empire\, But This Won't Last Long
DESCRIPTION:Still from Chornobyl 22\, a documentary film by Oleksiy Radynski\, 2023. Camera: Max Savchenko. \nAbstract\nJoin Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski and art historian Asia Bazdyrieva as they expand the territory of decolonial discourse by examining Ukraine’s anti-imperial war against Russia. Analyzing Russia’s tactics of energy colonialism\, its neo-fascist regime\, and the complicity of the West’s failing capitalist models\, the presentation will expand the notion of the Russian Federation as a settler apparatus based on institutional racism and extractivist exploitation. The speakers will argue that the dissolution of the Russian Federation is a necessary element in the global fight against colonial and racist power structures. \nSpeakers\nAsia Bazdyrieva is an art historian whose work focuses on hybrid European-Soviet modernity and its ideological and material implications in spaces\, bodies\, and lands. Bazdyrieva co-authored Geocinema\, a collaborative project exploring infrastructures of earth sensing as a form of cinema\, which has been nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2020) and the Golden Key Prize at the Kassel Dokfest (2021). She is currently an associate member of Critical Media Lab Basel and a resident of transmediale. [Portrait photograph of Asia Bazdyrieva by Support Your Art] \nOleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker based in Kyiv\, Ukraine. He was born in 1984 and raised on the ruins of a Documentary Film Studio in Kyiv. After studying film theory at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy\, he took part in several film education experiments including Home Workspace Program (Ashkal Alwan\, Beirut) and Labor in a Single Shot by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann. His films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival\, e-flux (New York)\, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London)\, Krakow IFF\, DOK Leipzig\, DoсAviv\, Sheffield Doc Fest\, Docudays IFF\, S A V V Y Contemporary (Berlin)\, International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York)\, among other places\, and received a number of festival awards. As an essayist he contributed to publications including Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (Archive Books\, 2017)\, Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA\, 2018)\, and e-flux journal. [Portrait photograph of Oleksiy Radynski by Anastasiya Mantach]\n \nModerator\nLaurie Kain Hart is Director of the Center for European and Russian Studies and a sociocultural anthropologist with a research focus on the long-term effects on persons and communities of ethnopolitical conflict\, civil war\, state engineered population displacements\, migration\, nationalism\, racism\, globalization\, and ethnospatial segregation. As a former architect\, she is particularly interested in theories of space and place that help us understand the impact of spatial\, architectural\, and geopolitical forces on social inequality and marginalization. Hart’s interest is in understanding the links between macro-social and political forces and individual subjectivity. She therefore works at the intersection of political anthropology\, space and place theory\, and medical-psychiatric anthropology. Hart is affiliated with UCLA Global Studies\, Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities at the UCLA Semel Institute\, and teaches courses on violence\, urban anthropology\, borders and migration\, globalization and culture\, the anthropology of space and home\, the anthropology of art and architecture\, and contemporary social theory. \nRecommended Reading\n\nNo Milk\, No Love by Asia Bazdyrieva\nThe Case Against the Russian Federation by Oleksiy Radynski\n\n  \nAbout Kyiv to LA\nKyiv to LA is a joint exhibition and residency project that supports Ukrainian arts at a time when Ukrainian sovereignty and culture are under attack. Organized by Marathon Screenings and independent curator Asha Bukojemsky\, the initiative invites six Ukrainian artists and art historians to participate in a Los Angeles based residency\, culminating in a public program of talks\, screenings\, listening sessions and presentations. The project marks a unique and timely collaboration with several LA-based organizations and institutions including 18th Street Arts Center; Institute of Contemporary Arts\, Los Angeles (ICA LA); GRI Scholars Program; Villa Aurora Thomas Mann House (VATMH); The Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA; The Fulcrum; and Art at the Rendon. Additional programming hosted by e-flux in New York. Kyiv to LA is made possible by a generous grant from Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund. \nVenue\n\nBunche Hall\, Room 10383 (10th floor)\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Nearest parking to the event venue is Parking Structure 2 (P2). P2 rates: $3.00 – $15.00 (1 hour – all day). Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about how to pay. \n\n  \n  \nRelated Document: 20230420-Radynski-Bazdyrieva-poster-ln-rxz.pdf
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/yes-russia-is-still-an-empire-but-this-wont-last-long/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing a Way out of Communism
DESCRIPTION:Leading Czech novelist Martin Vopěnka reflects on how\, growing up in communist Europe\, writers found their voices. What can we learn from their fictional worlds as we face our own troubled times? As he launches his new novel MY BROTHER THE MESSIAH\, Martin Vopěnka leads us into the mindset of current Slavic writing.\n  \n\nMartin Vopěnka (born 1963) \n\nCzech writer with Jewish roots and author of 25 book titles\nProfound thinker and visionary in books for adults\, a sensitive guide and teacher in books for children and youth\n\nHe’s been writing since his childhood\, despite being forced to study mathematics and physics during the communist era. Yet this unwanted education was later used in some of his novels. \nHis work received awards and recently\, a feature film was made based on one of his novels. His books were published in English\, German\, Italian\, Polish\, Russian\, Bulgarian\, Rumanian\, Slovakian\, French\, Arabic\, and Macedonian. \nVopěnka’s literature is distinguished by high sensitivity for the inner tension of an individual as well as for dangerous aspects of a whole society. Also for endangering our planet and our society. \nHis books for children and youth are among the most successful\, popular\, and appreciated in the Czech Republic. In them\, too\, he touches on serious topics in the belief that children are our good future and can do more than we think. \nOccasionally\, Vopěnka also devotes himself to poetry\, which he considers to be the highest verbal formation. Some of his poems have been published in English in online anthologies. \nDespite his steadily writing\, he makes his living as a publisher. He established his publishing house Prah (in Czech: Threshold) in 1990 – shortly after the Velvet Revolution. He engages also socially. Since 2003\, he is a chair of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers and during his time he considerably enhanced the prestige of this organization. Regularly\, he writes polemic articles for the newspapers. \nAuthor’s Website \n  \n“Vopěnka’s reputation as the next Milan Kundera is well cemented…” — Simon Ings\, The Times. \n  \n\nMy Brother the Messiah \nIf in the near future a new Messiah were to appear in the middle of Europe\, would people accept him? And would it prove possible to establish a new religion? \nIt is 2096\, and a state of drought has obtained for many years. The bed of the River Vltava has dried up. But hope exists thanks to a scientific project that fends off the sun’s rays in the stratosphere. Eli is born in the Prague district of Holešovice as the first rain is falling. \nIt is 2168\, and Marek\, Eli’s elder brother\, is in a Greek settlement close to Mount Olympus\, preaching to survivors of the worst exodus in human history. At this point\, only a staunch handful believe that martyred Eli was the Messiah. \n  \nThe latest novel by Czech writer and visionary Martin Vopěnka has the highest ambitions. Plausibly and with great sensitivity for the psychology of his characters\, the author shows how much pain\, love\, hate\, doubt and hope one life can bring\, when its subject appears capable of emulating the role in human history played by Jesus. In the opinion of the author\, although Jesus was not a miracle worker\, the mere fact that his legacy has survived to the present day is a miracle in itself. \nThe novel is set in two time frames\, the main one being in the year 2168. The scene is northern Greece\, not far from Mount Olympus\, where Marek\, brother of Eli\, the long-dead\, presumptive Messiah\, delivers a sermon to a modest gathering of Eli’s disciples. These followers are predominantly Czech: Eli\, too\, was a Czech. \nThis time\, the sermon is attended by a slim\, attractive girl. She gazes up at the ageing Marek (he is now over seventy) from the front row; after the sermon\, she follows him to his bungalow. Marek is used to the attention of women\, who usually come to him out of platonic love for Eli. But this girl\, Natalia\, takes him by surprise: her interest is in Marek himself\, specifically the story of his life at Eli’s side. \nMarek begins to talk – and so returns to the Prague district of Holešovice\, on the banks of the River Vltava\, where he was born in 2096. Eli was born in the same place in 2105. It is a time of climate catastrophe. Central Europe has been afflicted by drought for many years. The Vltava has practically dried up\, and Prague is deluged by refugees from the south. The country is ruled by a president who was democratically elected but is now an out-and-out dictator; as the president succeeds in maintaining order\, he has the support of the majority. Marek’s father is in the president’s employ. \nJust before Eli’s birth\, a significant breakthrough is achieved: world powers agree to place in the stratosphere a diffraction grating that should divert many of the sun’s rays\, so cooling the atmosphere. This project raises huge levels of expectation. Before long\, clouds really do appear. As the first rain falls\, Eli is born at a nearby clinic. \n  \nMarek’s father\, now a high-ranking officer in the dictator’s personal guard\, chooses this very moment to leave the family\, having found himself a new one. Marek’s sick\, obese mother is left to bring up her two sons alone. Around Eli\, things seem somehow to happen of their own accord. The family is apparently safe. Marek loves Eli from the first and feels a deep connection with him. He will live for him and him only until – aged over seventy – he meets Natalia. Though she is young and beautiful\, Natalia loves Marek – for himself\, not as the brother of the Messiah. This is a new situation for Marek\, and he is confused by it. Eli’s disciples are unhappy that their prophet is living with the young newcomer\, and they are concerned that he is neglecting his mission. \nThe book continues to switch between the storyline developing the psychology of Marek and Natalia’s love with a retrospective of the life of the Messiah. \nThe experiment with the grating has gone awry; a new ice age is sweeping into Europe from the north. The flow of refugees from south to north has been reversed. As states crumble\, the exodus is marked by a struggle for survival\, localized wars and killings. Although Eli performs no miracles\, his words have a strange strength\, attraction and power. The novel’s retrospective narration turns out to be a new gospel – a witness to the chosenness of the Messiah\, albeit one that is difficult to understand. Aged thirty\, Eli dies a martyr in Dubrovnik\, Croatia\, having fallen victim to wealthy Czechs whom he tried to convince of the need for modesty and humility\, although he knew how his entreaties would end. For the seventy-year-old Marek\, the memory of Eli’s death is still painful. The only true miracle foretold by Eli before his death is that those who fail to follow him will bear many fewer children or none at all. According to Eli\, the miracle of creation should not be taken for granted. \n  \nIt transpires that Natalia and Eli have something in common: she was born in Dubrovnik only weeks after Eli’s death. She has fled from her wealthy parents. \nThis ageing\, childless world is coming to an end. Is a new beginning on the horizon? A small number of Eli’s disciples have borne children; the hatred this inspires puts them at constant risk. Some senior rabbis fly from the state of Israel to speak with Marek. If they can prove that Eli was a Jew and so accept him as the Messiah\, the Jews will again bear children\, and again be the chosen people. The rabbis refer to the traditional Jewish belief in two Messiahs: the first unites the Jewish nation\, so effectively seeing out the old world\, while the second establishes a new unity. But a genetic test soon ascertains that Marek is not a Jew; in that case\, nor was Eli. The despondent rabbis return to their homeland\, all hope lost. \nOne day\, Natalia goes missing. Marek fears the worst: some of Eli’s disciples have refused to accept her presence among them. They may have abducted her; they may have killed her. Natalia has left several seemingly deliberate clues behind\, but Marek cannot make out their message. A st \nudent travels out from the city to help; in the story\, he has a spiritual kinship with Saul of Tarsus – it seems that he will be the one to take Eli’s teachings into the wider world. \nAs his life draws to its close\, Marek wishes to make a pilgrimage to Eli’s grave\, which overlooks Dubrovnik. If he has read the signs correctly\, Natalia will be there. In all likelihood\, her parents were behind her abduction. \nThe pilgrimage to Dubrovnik takes several months. On their way\, Marek and the student pass abandoned camps\, languishing settlements and half-empty palaces that were once homes of the mighty. The student writes down what Marek tells him about Eli – this will form the basis of his teachings. At last they are within sight of Eli’s grave\, where there is now a small shrine. Marek walks the last few steps alone. As he approaches the door\, he hears bitter weeping. On entering the shrine\, he sees a young woman with a new-born baby; it is she – Natalia – who is weeping. Between sobs\, she tells him: “He spoke to me. I met him.” Eli has appeared to her\, to tell her that her son will be the true Messiah. “Whose child is he?” asks Marek in confusion. “Yours and mine\, you silly thing!” Natalia answers. \n  \nThe novel My Brother the Messiah does not present a likely scenario for the future. But neither did the birth of Jesus – Jesus was born on the periphery of the world of that time. And if we do not believe that he turned water into wine\, walked on water\, brought Lazarus back from the dead and was the last of the last to be crucified\, leaving behind but a few hopeless disciples\, how did it happen that his teachings have survived in such powerful form as to become Europe’s dominant religion? It is this very unlikelihood in apparently helpless beginnings that Vopěnka’s novel’s captures with such virtuosity\, freshness and originality. In so doing\, he poses many questions on the future of humanity\, redemption and hope. \n\nSponsored by
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/writing-a-way-out-of-communism/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:“NAVALNY” AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RUSSIA'S FUTURE: A CONVERSATION WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST MARIA PEVCHIKH
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with investigative journalist Maria Pevchikh \n\nTuesday\, March 14\, 2023\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM (Pacific Time)\nPhysics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425 \n\nThe UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS) in co-sponsorship with the UCLA Russian Flagship Program\, the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, and The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law invite you to “Navalny” and the Struggle for Russia’s Future: A Conversation with Investigative Journalist Maria Pevchikh. The event will take place in-person on Tuesday\, February 14\, 2023 at 6:00pm in Physics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425. \nRegistration required for attendance. \nSpeaker\nMaria Pevchikh is a Russian investigative journalist\, activist and head of the investigative unit of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Pevchikh is known for exposing high-level criminal activity in Russia. She studied at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University. In 2010 she moved to the United Kingdom\, where she graduated from the Faculty of Political Science of the London School of Economics. Maria Pevchikh gained media attention in 2020 after the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. She was one of the companions of Alexei Navalny during his trip across Russia when he was poisoned. [Source: Wikipedia]\nModerators\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. In 2021-22\, he is a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. A graduate of Oxford University (B.A. Hons.) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1995)\, he has published five books and numerous articles in leading political science and economics and public affairs journals. His 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. \nOleg Itskhoki is a professor of economics at University of California\, Los Angeles. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research\, and an Associate Editor at the American Economic Review. He was a participate of the 2009 Review of Economic Studies Tour\, a Sloan Research Fellow in 2015-2017\, and was on the list IMF’s list of 25 economists under 45. His areas of interest include globalization and labor markets\, and exchange rates and international relative prices. \nVenue\nPhysics & Astronomy Building\, Room 1425\n430 Portola Plaza\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking\nParking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Nearest parking to the event venue is Parking Structure 2 (P2). P2 rates: $3.00 – $15.00 (1 hour – all day). Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about how to pay. \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA Russian Flagship Program\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/navalny-and-the-struggle-for-russias-future-a-conversation-with-investigative-journalist-maria-pevchikh/
LOCATION:1425 PAB Building
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-night-2/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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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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SUMMARY:One Year of War in Ukraine Candlelight Vigil
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/one-year-of-war-in-ukraine-candlelight-vigil/
LOCATION:Bruin Plaza
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SUMMARY:Maslenitsa
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/maslenitsa/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:How the Soviet Jew Was Made - Sasha Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Sasha Senderovich will discuss his new book\, How the Soviet Jew Was Made\, published by Harvard University Press in 2022. In the book\, Senderovich offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film that recast the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. \n\n\n\n\nAfter the revolution of 1917\, Jews who had previously lived in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement quickly exited the shtetls\, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities in different parts of the new Bolshevik state\, others for Europe\, America\, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East\, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews\, Soviet modernity meant freedom\, the possibility of the new\, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. \nThis ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature\, films\, and reportage\, Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew\, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape. \n\nBio: \n\n\nSasha Senderovich is an Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Jackson School of International Studies\, and a faculty affiliate at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Together with Harriet Murav\, he translated\, from the Yiddish\, David Bergelson’s novel Judgment (Northwestern University Press\, 2017). Together with Harriet Murav\, he is currently working on In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union\, a collection of stories by several different authors translated from both Yiddish and Russian. He has also published on contemporary Soviet-born immigrant Jewish authors in America. His first monograph\, How the Soviet Jew Was Made\, was published by Harvard University Press in 2022. In addition to scholarly work\, he has also published essays on literary\, cultural\, and political topics in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, the New York Times\, the Forward\, Lilith\, Jewish Currents\, the Stranger\, and the New Republic.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[gravityform id=”41″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please contact slavic@humnet.ucla.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nCosponsored by The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, The 1939 Society Chair in Holocaust Studies and The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/7121/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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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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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party & Showcase Event
DESCRIPTION:We will be holding our annual Holiday Party & Showcase event on Wednesday\, November 30th at 6:00pm in 314 Royce Hall. Join us for an evening of cultural festivities including musical performances\, poetry recitations\, skits\, and more! Light refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there! \n\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-showcase-event/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Lecture on Romanian Literature as East European Literature
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/a-lecture-on-romanian-literature-as-east-european-literature/
LOCATION:2238 Public Affairs Building\, UCLA
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SUMMARY:From Beverly Hills Brat to Red Wave
DESCRIPTION:From Beverly Hills Brat to Red Wave\nJoanna Stingray and the Underground Soviet Rock Scene of the Late Cold War\nInternational Education Week\n  \n\nJoanna Stingray\n\nWednesday\, November 9\, 2022\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM\nHybrid format: Bunche Hall 10383\, UCLA & Zoom\n\n\n\nA Conversation Followed by a Q&A Session \nJoanna Stingray is an author and musician from Los Angeles\, California\, who lived for many years in Russia. In 1984\, while touring in the Soviet Union\, she met and befriended Boris Grebenschikov\, a revered musical poet (who many Soviets called the ‘Russian Dylan’) and soon became the first American producer of underground Russian rock n’ roll when she released the double album Red Wave — 4 Underground Bands from the U.S.S.R.\, a compilation of music smuggled out of the U.S.S.R. by Joanna in 1985. A frequent traveler in and out of Russia\, Joanna was interrogated by the KGB and FBI (both thought she was a spy) and in 1987\, she became an enemy of the State — her visa blocked to keep her from entering the Soviet Union to marry Leningrad guitarist Yuri Kasparyan. After months of intervention by the U.S. State Department\, she returned to Russia\, married Yuri and in the early ‘90s became a television host\, a recording artist\, and well known rock personality throughout Russia. She has published several books in Russia about her time in the music scene as well as much of her photo collection. Her video diaries and interviews of bands and their musicians is the only archive of this clandestine\, bygone world. \nStingray on NBC Left Field: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU0SWbA_1YI \nInterview with Joanna Stingray in LA Review of Books: \nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-decadent-western-thing-a-conversation-with-joanna-stingray \n  \nRed Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground \nJoanna Stingray’s inspiring and poetic memoir\, written with her singer/songwriter daughter Madison\, introduces Western audiences to the legendary musicians of Soviet rock through her improbable Cold War heroics as a young New Wave musician who\, in 1985\, produced Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR with music by her new friends that she had smuggled to the West. This is her incredible testimony of youthful fortitude and rebellion\, her love story\, and proof of the power of music and youth culture over stagnancy and oppression. \n\nRock is for young people. It’s an opportunity to open up a road into the future and breathe deeper. And all thoughtful people understand that it’s not just young people fooling around. They are captivated by this music. If some of our rock bands like Aquarium and Kino were released in the West on the Red Wave album in June 1986\, why shouldn’t they have been released in Russia? \n– President Mikhail Gorbachev\, 2019\, reflecting on his decision that led to the Red Wave bands being allowed to become “official” by 1987 \n  \nSponsor(s): UCLA Russian Flagship Program\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Center for World Languages
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/from-beverly-hills-brat-to-red-wave/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:The Grandson Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n \nThe Grandson (2022) – International Trailer from Kristof Deak on Vimeo. \nPlease RSVP by contacting Melinda Borbely.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-grandson-film-screening/
LOCATION:Dodd 147
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SUMMARY:“Either you are afraid\, or you write”:  A conversation with Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin
DESCRIPTION:Followed by a bilingual reading by the author and his translator\, Max Lawton\, and Q&A \nLanguages: English and Russian\n  \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED –– CLICK HERE\n\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures\, together with the UCLA Russian Flagship\, will host a conversation and a bi-lingual reading by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin on Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, at 6:00 PM. The event will be held on the UCLA campus in A51 Kaplan Hall. A conversation will be followed by a bilingual reading by the author and his translator\, Max Lawton\, and Q&A. \nLA Review of Books reviews Sorokin’s recent novels in translation here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russians-finest-metaphysician-on-vladimir-sorokin-their-four-hearts-and-telluria/. \nVladimir Sorokin was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas and then turned to art and writing\, becoming a major presence in the 1980s Moscow underground. His work was banned in the Soviet Union\, and his first novel\, The Queue\, was published in France by the famed émigré dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in 1983. In 1992\, Sorokin’s Their Four Hearts was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize.  The publication of his controversial novel Blue Lard (1999)\, which included a sex scene between Stalin and Khrushchev\, led to public demonstrations against the book and demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer; in 2001\, he received the Andrei Bely Award for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. Sorokin also wrote the screenplays for the films Moscow\, The Kopeck\, and 4\, and the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov’s Rosenthal’s Children\, the first opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater since the 1970s. Sorokin has written numerous plays and short stories and his work has been translated into more than 30 languages. His most recent books are Doctor Garin (2021)  and De feminisi (2022).  \nMax Lawton is a translator\, novelist and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen’s College\, Oxford\, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Céline and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin and also translated the works of Jonathan Littell from French and Christian Kracht from German. Lawton is also the author of a novel and two collections of stories currently in publication and is writing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on phenomenology and the 20th-century novel. He lives in Los Angeles and is a member of four noise-music ensembles.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/either-you-are-afraid-or-you-write-a-conversation-with-russian-writer-vladimir-sorokin/
LOCATION:A51 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
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