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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T170000
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DTSTAMP:20221103T193316Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221104T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221014T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T170000
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SUMMARY:Screening of the Polish movie "Man of Marble"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures \nA young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut\, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-the-polish-movie-man-of-marble/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T213000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening and Q&A: "F@ck This Job" a.k.a. "Tango with Putin"
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION REQUIRED – CLICK HERE\nThe Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures will host a special screening of the documentary F@ck This Job (titled Tango with Putin on BBC) on Thursday\, September 29\, 2022 at 6:00 PM. The screening will be held on the UCLA campus in A51 Kaplan Hall. Immediately following the screening\, Professor Lilya Kaganovsky will lead an in-person Q&A with director Vera Krichevskaya and journalist Natalya Sindeeva. \nTo view the official trailer for the film\, click here. \nFeatured Guests \n\nVera Krichevskaya is a co-founder of Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and an award-winning television director and producer who has held numerous roles at NTV Channel\, ICTV Channel and 24DOC TV. Her feature documentaries include F@ck This Job (2021)\, The Case (2018)\,The Man Who Was Too Free (2016)\, and The Citizen Poet (2012). In 2013\, Vera was a World Press Institute Fellow. \n\n  \nNatalya Sindeeva is a co-founder\, main owner\, and chief executive officer of the Dozhd TV (TV Rain) Media Holding\, which includes Dozhd TV (TV Rain) and the Republic.ru online magazine. Sindeeva is also the co-founder and former general producer of the Silver Rain radio station; founder of the Silver Galosh anti-award; and three-time laureate of the “Media Manager of Russia” prize. She is an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Radio\, and in 2016 became a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for the Protection of Human Rights.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/documentary-screening/
LOCATION:A51 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come join our faculty\, advisor and fellow students to learn more about the majors/ minors and our Russian Flagship Program! \nLight refreshments provided
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-open-house/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T200000
DTSTAMP:20220429T214629Z
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SUMMARY:End of Year Talent Show Event
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/celebrations-across-cultures/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T133000
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SUMMARY:Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture "Translating Erased Histories"
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Maureen Freely University of Warwick \n \nRSVP here
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/michael-henry-heim-memorial-lecture-translating-erased-histories/
LOCATION:webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T090000
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SUMMARY:25th Annual UC Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 30\, 2022\n(**All times are in Pacific Standard Time**)\n  \nConference organizers: Cooper Lynn\, Jeffrey Riggs\nFaculty advisor: Susan Kresin \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu \n9:00-9:10 am Opening Remarks: Ronald Vroon\, Chair of the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \n____________________________________________________________ \n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel A: The Contemporary Russian State & Character                          Chair: Yana Demeshko \n\nCamille Lanese (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Role of the Soviet Union in the Atmosphere of Corruption in Putin’s Russia.”\nYueun Kang (she/her/hers\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “Russian Stoicism: Toward a Critical Perspective.”\nOleksandra Stogniy (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Health and Health Seeking Behaviors in Modern Russian Reproductive Healthcare.”\n\n9:20-10:20 am Session 1 Panel B: Russian Literature of the Long 19th Century\nChair: Polina Varfolomeeva \n\nAkela Spears (she/her\, USC)\, “Hope Unrealizable\, Ideal Undesirable: An Intertextual Analysis of Alyosha Karamazov and Sonya Marmeladovna.”\nMollie Brown (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Literary Responses to the Legal Reforms of Tsar Alexandr II: A Progressive Move for Russia\, But Was It Enough?”\nCharles Smith (Columbia University)\, “Zero Is a Bomb: Time and Historical Development in Lenin and Bely.”\n\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:20-10:40 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel A: 21st Century Activism & Politics\nChair: Cate Hwang \n\nAlexis Hill (she/her\, UCLA)\, “A Comparison of LGBT Activism and its Effects in Russia and the Czech Republic.”\nNina Vukcevic (she/ her\, UCLA)\, “The Struggle for Serbia: The Power of Grassroots Organizing for Environmental Justice in Serbia.”\nEdna Bella Salčin (she/her\, UCLA)\, “The Consequences of Genocide Denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina.”\n\n10:40-11:40 am Session 2 Panel B: Russian Music & Film\nChair: Lydia Roberts \n\nMaria Torpey (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Alexandra\, can you breathe in Moscow?’: Nostalgia and the Soundtrack of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979).”\nIsana Raja (she/her\, UCSD)\, “‘Your American Music is Shit’: How the Soundtracks of Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000) Play into Russian Nationalism and Anti-Foreigner Sentiment.”\nMark Berezov (he/him/his\, UCSD)\, “Andrei Tarkovsky\, Vadim Yusov\, and Georgy Rerberg: a Case Study in the Cinematography of Ivan’s Childhood (1962) and Mirror (1975).”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n11:40-12:30 LUNCH BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n12:30-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel A: Literature and Culture of the Soviet & Post-Soviet Periods\nChair: Catherine Pasternack \n\nJonah Lounds (they/them/theirs\, UC Berkeley)\, “Clothing for Crocodiles and the Creation of a Parentless World in Late-Soviet Children’s Animations.”\nAnastasia Izmailova (she/her/hers\, UCLA)\, “Resisting Identity Suppression through the Act of Writing in Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s 1984.”\n\n12:00-1:30 pm Session 3 Panel B: The Putin Era\nChair: Jeffrey Riggs \n\nJack Hohn (UCSD)\, “‘Wars have not diminished’: An Analysis of Putin’s 2007 Munich Speech in a Contemporary Context.\nKyle Tucker (he/him/his\, Indiana University)\, “The Evolving Nature of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Doctrine.”\nKurtis Yan (he/him\, UCLA)\, “Dyad of Vladimirs: The Eastern Orthodox Church as a Political Actor from Kievan Rus’ to Contemporary Russia.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n1:30-1:50 BREAK\n___________________________________________________________ \n\n1:50-2:50pm Session 4: Russia and its Influence: Diaspora\, Investment\, Meddling\nChair: Cooper Lynn \n\nMoriah Thomas (she/her\, University of Georgia)\, “Russia’s Influence on Immigration and Immigration Practices in Ukraine\, Kazakhstan\, and Their Neighbors.”\nJuliette Oliver (she/they\, UCLA)\, “Angola Then and Now: Investigating Soviet and Russian Intervention in the Country.”\nMax Hazerjian (he/him\, UNC Chapel Hill)\, “The World of ‘Russian’ Harbin: Armenians in China’s Russian Diaspora.”\n\n____________________________________________________________ \n2:50 pm Closing Remarks & Presentation of Certificates: Larry McLellan\, Department of Germanic\, Slavic\,\n& Semitic Studies\, UCSB\n  \nFor the Zoom links\, please contact Susan Kresin at kresin@ucla.edu
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/25th-annual-uc-undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-and-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T180000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T180000
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SUMMARY:"The Amazing Breuer" Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles\nis delighted to invite you to an opening of the exhibition\n“THE AMAZING BREUER\,” Czech Surgeon at the Birth of American Scientifiction\,\ncommemorating the 76th anniversary of a passing of the Czech-American writer Miles (Miloslav) J. Breuer (1889-1945)\, who died in Los Angeles. \nThe exhibition will be opened personally by Amb. Jaroslav Olša\, Jr.\, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles\,\nwho is the author of books on science fiction and will introduce this early science fiction writer. \nTIME:\nThursday\, October 14th\, 2021 from 6pm until 8pm. \nExhibition will be on a display through mid-January\, 2022. \nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\nAttend our exhibition to learn more about the early Czech-American science fiction author Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer (1889-1945). Breuer is also the author of the novel “Paradise and Iron” (1930)\, one of the first modern science fiction tales to warn of the dangers of a technologically oriented civilization\, depicting a humanity threatened by what we today call artificial intelligence\, and the co-author of The Girl from Mars\, a thin 24 page work that became the first book in the world to be formally titled as science fiction. He also co-wrote two novels with Jack Williamson. At the turn of the 1920s and 30s\, Breuer’s readers viewed this author as a major star of the science fiction genre. Discovered by Hugo Gernsbeck\, Breuer contributed to “The Amazing Stories” and other pulp magazines.  He was born in Chicago to the Czech parents. Writing as “Miloslav” – the Czech version of his name – Breuer had published numerous stories also in Czech language (which were subsequently published in English in early science fiction magazines). \n\nLOCATION:\nConsulate General of the Czech Republic\n10990 Wilshire Blvd\, Suite 1100\nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 \nRSVP: \nDue to limited space an RSVP is mandatory and admission passes will be allocated based on the first RSVPs received. Please confirm your attendance by Monday\, October 11\, 2021 at: czechconsulatela@gmail.com\nPlease note still existing Covid-19 procedures at the Consulate. By accepting this invitation you are confirming that you are fully vaccinated. Guests who are exempt from COVID-19 vaccinations due to a protected exemption should contact Consulate beforehand. Masks are advised. \nPARKING: \nPlease note that there is PAID parking in the building of 10990 Wilshire Blvd\, but the Consulate CANNOT VALIDATE. Thus we highly recommend street parking around the building. \nConsulate General of the Czech Republic\n10990 Wilshire Blvd.\, Suite 1100\nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 \nTel.: (310) 473-0889\nFax: (310) 473-9813\nE-mail: losangeles@embassy.mzv.cz\nWeb: www.mzv.cz/losangeles
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-amazing-breuer-exhibition/
LOCATION:Consultate General of the Czech Republic\, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.\, Suite 1100\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T140000
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SUMMARY:Department Open House (2021)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPlease RSVP here.\n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/open-house-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210805T190000
DTSTAMP:20210723T221653Z
CREATED:20210722T222350Z
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SUMMARY:Information Session on Russian-related Opportunities at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/information-session-on-russian-related-opportunities-at-ucla/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T210000
DTSTAMP:20210723T170601Z
CREATED:20210723T170601Z
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SUMMARY:Interview with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, the Leader of the Belarusian Pro Democracy Movement
DESCRIPTION:Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, the leader of the Belarusian democratic forces\, is visiting the United States for the first time this July. Currently exiled\, Tsikhanouskaya was the opposition candidate in the contested Belarusian presidential election on August 9\, 2020\, against President Alexander Lukashenko. \nAs part of her diplomatic visit to the U.S.\, Tsikhanouskaya will be interviewed by Dr. Sasha Razor at the Wende Museum\, with an introduction by Joes Segal\, the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. \nThe interview will be live-streamed via Zoom. \nFree. RSVP Here.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/interview-with-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-the-leader-of-the-belarusian-pro-democracy-movement/
LOCATION:webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T200000
DTSTAMP:20210427T222914Z
CREATED:20210427T222914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T222914Z
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SUMMARY:Multicultural Performance Night (2021)
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/multicultural-performance-night-2021/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T130000
DTSTAMP:20210507T214452Z
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SUMMARY:Putin's Global Ambitions in the Face of a New U.S. Administration
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with political scientists and Russia experts Kathryn Stoner & Daniel Treisman \nWednesday\, May 26\, 2021\n11:00 AM (Pacific Time)\nWebinar\n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n**After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please note\, you will only be able to join the webinar at the specified time and date.  \n  \nABOUT THE WEBINAR\nIf you register for and attend a Burkle Center webinar\, you will not be seen or heard via video or audio\, but may submit questions via the Q&A form at the bottom of your screen. \nIn addition to the webinar\, we will be livestreaming this event on the Burkle Center’s YouTube page. The YouTube livestream will be available below at the start of the event. Please note: While YouTube allows you to watch the event in real time\, you will only be able to ask questions if you register and attend through the webinar link above. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS\n  \nKathryn Stoner is the deputy director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy\, Development\, and the Rule of Law\, and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at Stanford\, and in the Program on International Relations\, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004\, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years\, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs. At Princeton she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University\, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington\, DC. \nIn addition to many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia\, she is the author or co-editor of six books\, including Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order\, published in February\, 2021. She received a BA (1988) and MA (1989) in Political Science from the University of Toronto\, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University (1995). In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Iliad State University\, Tbilisi\, Republic of Georgia. \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. \nHe was educated at Oxford University (BA Hons. 1986) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1995). Treisman’s work focuses on Russian politics and economics and comparative political economy. He has published four 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 the public affairs journals Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. A former interim lead editor of The American Political Science Review\, he has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\, and as acting director of UCLA’s Center for European and Eurasian Studies. In Russia\, he is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Jury of the National Prize in Applied Economics. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)\, and has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the US and the Smith Richardson Foundation. His latest book\, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (The Free Press\, 2011) was one of the Financial Times’ Best Political Books of 2011. \n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\nKal Raustiala holds the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA School of Law and is a Professor at the UCLA International Institute\, where he teaches in the undergraduate program on Global Studies. He has served as the Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations since 2007. \n\nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, UCLA Russian Flagship Center\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/putins-global-ambitions-in-the-face-of-a-new-u-s-administration/
LOCATION:webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T140000
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SUMMARY:Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 7\, 2021\n12:00 PM (Pacific Time)\nZoom Webinar \n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n** After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom webinar. Please note\, you will only be able to join the webinar at the specified time and date. \nWhites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia’s encounter with viniculture and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century\, embraced by Peter the Great\, and then magnified many times over by the annexation of the indigenous wine economies and cultures of Georgia\, Crimea\, and Moldova in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries\, viniculture and winemaking became an important indicator of Russia’s place at the European table. While the Russian Revolution in 1917 left many of the empire’s vineyards and wineries in ruins\, it did not alter the political and cultural meanings attached to wine. Stalin himself embraced champagne as part of the good life of socialism\, and the Soviet Union became a winemaking superpower in its own right\, trailing only Spain\, Italy\, and France in the volume of its production.\nWhites and Reds illuminates the ideas\, controversies\, political alliances\, technologies\, business practices\, international networks\, and\, of course\, the growers\, vintners\, connoisseurs\, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries. Because wine was domesticated by virtue of imperialism\, its history reveals many of the instabilities and peculiarities of the Russian and Soviet empires. Over two centuries\, the production and consumption patterns of peripheral territories near the Black Sea and in the Caucasus became a hallmark of Russian and Soviet civilizational identity and cultural refinement. Wine in Russia was always more than something to drink. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nStephen V. Bittner is Professor of History at Sonoma State University. He is the author of The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat and the editor of Dmitrii Shepilov’s memoir\, The Kremlin’s Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev. \nABOUT THE DISCUSSANT\nBrian J. Griffith is the inaugural Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History at University of California\, Los Angeles. His interests include modern Europe\, modern Italy\, Fascism\, consumerism\, (trans)national identities\, and the digital humanities. \nABOUT THE SERIES\nInterwar Crisis: Europe\, 1918-1939 is the public facing\, student authored weblog of a modern European history course which is being taught by Dr. Brian J Griffith at University of California\, Los Angeles during the Spring 2021 quarter (March 29-June 11\, 2021). The course\, which shares the same name as this Open Access volume\, explores the various political\, economic\, social\, and cultural upheavals which took place in Europe between the two world wars\, and asks its participants to consider the various parallels between developments during the 1920s and 1930s and today’s international community. \nCost : Free and open to the public. Registration required at above link. \nSponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies\, Program on Central Asia\, UCLA Russian Flagship Center\, Department of Slavic\, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/whites-and-reds-a-history-of-wine-in-the-lands-of-tsar-and-commissar/
LOCATION:webinar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210424
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies
DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS\nYou are invited to participate in the 24th Annual University of California Undergraduate\nConference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies. The conference will be held on\nSaturday\, April 24\, 2021\, and it will be hosted virtually over Zoom by the UCLA Department\nof Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nPURPOSE\nOne of the great benefits of knowing a foreign language is being able to use source materials\nin that language. This conference gives students the opportunity to integrate their language\nskills with research on some aspect of Slavic or East/Central European studies and to present\ntheir work in a collegially critical and at the same time friendly and supportive environment.\nPresenting a conference paper is an ideal way to strengthen graduate school applications or\nadd an academic component to your résumé. In addition\, those interested have the opportunity\nto submit their papers for peer-reviewed publication in the on-line UC Journal of Slavic and\nEast/Central European Studies\n(https://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/undergraduate-journal/ ). \nTOPICS\nYour presentation may be an extension of a paper written for a course in Slavic or\nEast/Central European studies or a project related to your personal interests. You may work\nalone or jointly with another student. Instructors from your campus Slavic\, Russian or\nEast/Central European Studies program will serve as project advisors. Any undergraduate\nenrolled in a Slavic or East/Central European language\, literature\, linguistics\, history\, political\nscience\, music\, folklore\, or other relevant course may participate. Graduate students are\ninvited to serve as panel moderators. \nREQUIREMENTS\nThe presentation must incorporate some materials in a Slavic or other East/Central European\nor Eurasian language. Your level of proficiency will determine the extent to which foreign\nlanguage materials should be used. For example\, beginning students might incorporate titles\nof books or articles or place names in the original Slavic language; intermediate students\nmight read some passages in the original from relevant sources; advanced students might base\ntheir paper on sources in the given language. Individual presentations should be 10-15\nminutes in length; joint presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please note that you\nmust have a faculty advisor from your campus who can commit to doing a practice run\nwith you. \nINFORMATION\nFor more information\, please contact a Slavic studies faculty member on your campus\,\nor write to the Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and\nCultures at UCLA: slavic@humnet.ucla.edu \nIN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE\nIf you would like to participate in the conference\, please submit a proposal (a title\, a threefour-sentence description\, and your advisor’s name and email address) to the conference website at https://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/participate/ by\nFriday\, March 19\, 2021. \nBy Friday\, April 2\, 2021 \, you must submit the following information to the conference\nwebsite:\n1) your name as you would like it to appear in the conference program\n2) your email address ; unless you request otherwise\, this will be included in the\nconference program\n3) your school and major(s)/minor(s)\n4) the exact title of your presentation\n5) an abstract (250 words) ; this is a paragraph describing the topic of your paper. It\nwill be included in the conference program. \nYou are required to practice your presentation with your advisor virtually by Friday\, April\n16\, 2021 . \nFurthermore\, by Friday\, April 16\, 2021 \, you must send your final presentation to the\nconference website. All participants must have a visual component to their presentation such\nas a Powerpoint\, Keynote\, or Prezi presentation. You will meet with your panel and moderator\nto practice the format of your presentations on Zoom in the weeks preceding the conference. \nDEADLINES\nFriday\, March 19\, 2021 : Submission of proposal to a faculty advisor from your campus and\nto the conference website.\nFriday\, April 2\, 2021 : Submission of paper title\, and short abstract to the conference website.\nFriday\, April 16\, 2021: Presentation practice with an advisor and submission of Powerpoint\,\nKeynote\, or Prezi slides to the conference website.\nDate of the conference: Saturday\, April 24\, 2021\, hosted virtually over Zoom.
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/24th-annual-undergraduate-conference-on-slavic-east-central-european-studies/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Kresin":MAILTO:kresin@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T200000
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Russian Flagship Alumna Melissa Miller '19
DESCRIPTION:Hear about Melissa’s various experiences in the former Soviet space\, including on RLASP in Kazakhstan\, and on CLS in Kyrgyztan! Check out her blog with travel guides and Russian language resources here. \nTo RSVP and receive the Zoom link for the event\, please email Leanna Kramer (lkramer@international.ucla.edu).
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-russian-flagship-alumna-melissa-miller-19/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210303T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210303T160000
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SUMMARY:The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka
DESCRIPTION:THE HISTORY OF BELARUSIAN VYZHYVANKA \non March 3th at 1 pm \nhttp://bit.ly/uclabelarus \n  \nKeynote address by Rufina Bazlova\, a Prague–based Belarusian artist\, followed by a discussion by Nadzeya Norton\, Antonina Stebur\, and Alisa Lozhkina. \nThe online panel will be moderated by Dr. Sasha Razor\, a recent alumna of UCLA’s Department Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies and exhibition curator. \nThis program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures\, the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and Chrysalis Mag \nRegistration is required. To receive the link to join\, please register here: http://bit.ly/uclabelarus \n  \nLink to the recent radio interview with the artist (8 min.): https://english.radio.cz/belarusian-artist-prague-embroiders-anti-lukashenko-protests-ward-bad-spirits-8689198 \nRecently published interview in Chrystalis Mag with Rufina Bazlova: https://chrysalismag.by/project/rufina-bazlova-the-history-of-belarusian-vyzhyvanka \nFor more information about Belarus\, please check the UCLA Library research guide: Protest and Politics in Belarus. \nThe information on current political state of Belarus can be found in the article entitled: “The Lesson of Belarus” by Sasha Razor\, PhD. \n  \nABOUT \nOn August 9\, 2020\, peaceful decentralized protests erupted across the Republic of Belarus to contest the falsified presidential election results. The unprecedented scale of public mobilization caused the illegitimate dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka to quip that these protests were directed by Czech puppeteers who allegedly manipulated them from Prague. Lukashenka’s propaganda uses the metaphor of puppeteers and marionettes to discredit the frontwomen and -men of the protests and thus deprive them of their agency. The rhetorical trope of the Czech puppeteer later became the subject of many memes within Belarus. This exhibition responds to this discourse by presenting the work of Rufina Bazlova\, a Prague-based Belarusian artist whose comic embroidery series “The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka” went viral within the first days of the protests. The medium of traditional embroidery is a widespread transnational phenomenon that uses elements of folk culture as a national commodity and marker of belonging. Belarusian embroideries are a specific code for recording information about the lives of the nation. Bazlova utilizes this medium to narrate the ongoing saga of the Belarusian uprising\, where each tableau corresponds to an actual event that took place during the last four months of the protests. \nVyzhyvanka is a pun combining two Belarusian words\, “embroidery” and “survival.” \nVyshyvanka means “embroidered shirt.” \nVyzhyvat’ means “to survive.” \n  \nMEET OUR PANELISTS: \n  \nRufina Bazlova is a Prague-based multi-genre artist who works in illustration\, comics\, artist books\, puppet making\, scenography\, performance\, and costume design. Bazlova gained an international profile for her series “The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka\,” which uses the traditional folk cross-stitch medium to depict the ongoing peaceful protests in Belarus\, her home country. Rufina holds her undergraduate degree in Stage Design from the Theatre Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU) and the MgA degree in Illustration and Graphic Design from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia. Together with her colleagues from DAMU\, she founded a creative group of puppeteers called Sleď Pod Kožichem (Herring Beneath the Fur Coat). Their play “RAW” was nominated for the Greenhorn Award at the prestigious Figura Theatre Festival in Baden (Switzerland) in 2020. \n  \nNadzeya Norton is a Belarusian activist\, ethnographer\, social and cultural anthropologist located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Minsk (Belarus)\, Nadzeya has graduated from Belarusian State University in Minsk with an MA degree in history and developed and taught the course of “Belarusian History and Culture” at the Southwestern College in Kansas while she was a visiting scholar of the Center for Belarusian studies. Since 2016\, Nadzeya has concentrated her efforts on promoting\, preserving\, and developing Belarusian culture\, tradition\, and history in California. She’s the producer of “Etna-tradycyja\,” an organization aimed at popularizing music folklore. During the last Presidential campaign in Belarus\, Norton became the leader of the Belarusian community in the SF Bay Area and organized the largest protest events (rallies\, meetings\, marches\, art exhibitions\, performance\, etc.) on the west coast to express solidarity and support protest actions in Belarus. \n  \nAntonina Stebur is a Minsk and Moscow-based curator and researcher. She studied visual and cultural studies at the European Humanities University in Vilnius\, Lithuania\, and at the School of Engaged Art of the art group “Chto Delat?” [What is to be done?] in Saint Petersburg\, Russia. She is a member of the artist group #damaudobnayavbytu [Woman convenient in everyday life]\, which examines the feminist agenda in the Belarusian and post-Soviet context in general. She has curated several exhibitions in Belarus\, Russia\, Poland\, France\, and China. Antonina is a member of a research group AGITATSIA dedicated to political performance art practices\, actionism\, and art activism. Together with Anna Samarskaya\, she authored the book The History of Belarusian photography (2019). Her research areas and curatorial interests include community\, re-composition of everyday practices\, feminist critique\, a new sensibility\, grassroots initiatives\, post-Soviet\, political art\, performance\, and art-activism. \n  \nAlisa Lozhkina is an independent Ukrainian curator\, art historian\, and critic currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010-2016 she was the editor in chief of the major Ukrainian art magazine ART UKRAINE. In 2013-2016 she served as a Deputy Director of Mystetskyi Arsenal. Lozhkina curated seven large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art\, including “Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Now” at Ludwig Museum\, Budapest\, which\, which was nominated for Global Fine Art Awards (New York\, USA) as one of the best museum exhibitions of post-war and contemporary art in 2018. Additionally\, Lozhkina is known as the author of the following books: Point Zero. The Newest History of Ukrainian Contemporary Art (Сo-authored with Oleksandr Solovyov\, 2010) and Permanent Revolution: Art in Ukraine\, the 20th to the Early 21st Century\, which was published in Ukrainian\, French\, and\, most recently\, in English. Alisa is currently an ABD in Comparative History at Central European University (Vienna-Budapest). She is writing her dissertation on the interconnection of art and revolutions in recent Ukrainian history. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Alena Aissing: aaissing@library.ucla.edu
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/the-history-of-belarusian-vyzhyvanka/
LOCATION:webinar
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SUMMARY:Robot is 100!
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the International Studies at the UCLA Charles E. Young Library\, I am delighted to invite you to attend a webinar entitled: \n\nROBOT IS 100! \non February 4th at 12:00 pm \nRegistration at: http://bit.ly/ucla-robotis100 \n  \n100 years ago\, Czech writer Karel Čapek published his iconic drama R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)\, which introduced the word “robot” to the world. \n The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles and the UCLA Library coordinated this virtual panel discussion “Robot is 100!” exploring the influence of the sci-fi play – “R.U.R.” on many art forms and the future of robotics. \nLearn more about the future of artificial intelligence with distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience\, and Pediatrics at USC and the founding director of the USC Robotic and Autonomous Systems Center Ms. Maja Matarić\, and two established science fiction writers Mr. Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Mr. Jaroslav Veis\, who will discuss the heritage of Karel Čapek’s revolutionary play R.U.R.  \nThe online panel will be moderated by the Czech Consul General Amb. Jaroslav Olša\, Jr. who is also an editor of numerous anthologies of science fiction including ROBOT100\, a collection of stories by primarily Czech writers inspired by R. U. R.  \nTo further explore more on this topic\, please visit the UCLA Library’s virtual exhibit Robot is 100! Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. and the Robot in Pop Culture. \nYou can get more information about Karel Čapek’s life and R.U.R. in a complementary UCLA Library Research Guide. \nEnjoy an audio created by the BBC Sounds: “The Robots are Us.” This BBC Radio Documentary features\, among other scholars\, Jesse Brown O’Dell\, PhD. graduate from the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nThis program is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures. \nRegistration is required. To receive the link to join\, please register here: \nhttp://bit.ly/ucla-robotis100 \nMEET OUR PANELISTS: \n  \nMaja Mataric´– Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science\, Neuroscience\, and Pediatrics at USC\, founding director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center and interim Vice President of Research at USC. Her PhD and MS are from MIT\, BS from the University of Kansas. She is Fellow of AAAS\, IEEE\, and AAAI\, recipient of the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Science\, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring from President Obama\, the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award\, NSF Career Award\, MIT TR35 Innovation Award\, and IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems Early Career Awards.  She has a long history of being active in K-12 STEM and diversity outreach. A pioneer of socially assistive robotics\, her team’s research is developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for convalescence\, rehabilitation\, training\, and education that have been validated in autism\, stroke\, Alzheimer’s\, healthy elderly\, and many other domains (robotics.usc.edu/interaction/).  She is also co-founder of Embodied\, Inc. \nAlvaro Zinos-Amaro  Alvaro is a Hugo and Locus finalist with some forty stories published in professional magazines and numerous anthologies\, including Analog\, Galaxy’s Edge\, Lightspeed\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, Nature\, and volumes such as The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy\, Cyber World\, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories\, Humanity 2.0\, This Way to the End Times\, Shades Within Us\, The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison\, 18 Wheels of Science Fiction\, Overruled!\, It Came from the Multiplex\, and Seasons Between Us (forthcoming). Alvaro’s Rhysling-nominated poetry has appeared in markets like Apex and Star*Line\, while his more than one hundred reviews\, essays and interviews have been published in venues like Clarkesworld\, Locus\, Tor.com\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, Strange Horizons and Foundation.  \nJaroslav Veis is a much sought-after Czech journalist\, freelance writer\, scriptwriter\, translator and editor. He attained his degree in Journalism at the Charles University\, Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. As a science fiction enthusiast\, he is the author of five sci-fi short story collections published in a time span of more than four decades\, starting with “Experiment pro třetí planetu” (Experiment for the Third Planet\, 1976)\, and translated a wide range of authors\, such as Isaac Asimov\, Brian W. Aldiss\, etc. He also writes essays on science\, some of which were collected in “How the World Holds Together (“Čím drží svět pohromadě“)”\, which he co-wrote and edited. He wrote TV scripts for “Futuroskop I\, II\,” a Czech TV series on science\, technology and history of inventions.  \nVeis was also an Editor-in-Chief of one of the most recognized Czech newspapers Lidové noviny\, and served as the Editor of Fiction of another popular Czech newspaper Mladá fronta. Between 1993-94\, he was a Fellow at the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He also served for over a decade as the Chief Advisor to the President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. He widely publishes on politics\, and among his many achievements are the translations to Czech language\, for example a book of Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and Fareed Zakaria’s “In Defense of a Liberal Education.”  \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Alena Aissing: aaissing@library.ucla.edu
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/6471/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture by Boris Dralyuk
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 4th 11:00am – 12:15pm for a guest lecture by Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov’s short story “Signs and Symbols”. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99894843202?pwd=NXFPYmFyaTBKeVNuTjcwVFNQMUEwUT09 \nPasscode: 769586 \nPlease contact Yelena Furman at yfurman@humnet.ucla.edu for questions or if there are any issues with the link. \n 
URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/guest-lecture-by-boris-dralyuk/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Party (2020)
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URL:https://dev.slavic.ucla.edu/event/annual-holiday-party-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, United States
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