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Upcoming Events

 

Continuing Events

Newly formed!

Slavic Dance Group

Every Wednesday 6-7pm

Buxton House Lounge

1st floor

 

Previous Events

April 19, 2008 ~ Slavic Festival. Slavic food catered by Sonia's. Program includes Slavic dance, gypsy band, Slavic folk group "Kalinka", Slavic dance groups, Yale women's Slavic chorus, Russian children singing, and more. Tix: Brown students $7 adv, $9 door, general $8 adv, $ 10 door. Tickets at the post office or department office. Contact Victoria for more info ~ victoria_richter@brown.edu Andrew's Dining Hall, 7-10 p.m.

April 11, 2008 ~Koenigsberg Unmade: Dialogue of Place and Memory in the Russian Kaliningrad. Dr. Olga Sezneva, University of Chicago. Marston Hall, Room 205, 20 Manning Walk. Noon.

April 8, 2008 ~ Putin, Power, and the Rise of the New Russia. Marshall Goldman, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street. 4:00 p.m.

April 4, 2008 ~ Tales and Visions: Discovering Elena Guro. Speaker: Nina Gourianova, Northwestern University. Room B-1, Marston Hall, 4:00 p.m. Reception to follow.

April 3, 2008 ~ Slavic Tea and Coffee Hour to prepare for the Slavic Festival. Anyone interested in helping to organize or perform in the Slavic Festival, please be sure to attend! Room B-1, Marston Hall, 4:00 p.m.

February 27, 2008 ~ Sharing the Experience of Publishing Historical War Literature in Russia Based on the Website
"I Remember" (Ia pomniu). Dr. Artem Drabkin. Marston Hall
Room B1. 4:00 p.m.

February 26, 2008 ~ The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West. Speaker: Edward Lucas. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street. 2:00 p.m.

February 21, 2008 ~ Brown in Petersburg Summer Program. Info Session at 4.00 p.m. followed by Russian TEA (approximately 4.45-5.30). Marston Hall B1

February 11, 2008 ~ Poetry Reading in Russian and English. Alexander Skidan and Henry Gould. Marston Hall, B1, 4:00pm

Alexander Skidan was born in Leningrad in 1965. Poet, critic, translator. Author of three collections of poetry and two books of essays. "Red Shifting" has just been published, in English translation, by Genya Turovsky. His poetry has been translated into many languages and published in different anthologies. He lives in Saint Petersburg.

Henry Gould, poet and critic, is the author of numerous works of poetry, most notably Stone (Coppe Beech Press, 1979), Stubborn Grew (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2000), and The Grassblade Light (XLibris, 2002). Several volumes of his poetry are available in electronic and book form at www.lulu.com. Henry Gould lives in Providence.

November 29, 2007 ~ Mechanisms of Language Change, or, U.S. out of My Analogy. Lecture Series: Cross Disciplinary Linguistic Perspectives.

Lecturer: Alan Timberlake, UC Berkeley
4:00 p.m. ~ Metcalf Research 129

Sponsored by the The Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund; the Departments of Classics, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and Slavic Languages; the Program in Judaic Studies; and a Humanities Grant in  Philosophy, Brown University

November 1, 2007 ~ Talking Your Way to Whiteness: Jews, Ethnicity, and Language. Lecture Series: Cross Disciplinary Linguistic Perspectives.

Lecturer: Neil Jacobs, Ohio State University.
4:00 p.m. ~ Metcalf Research 129

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 ~ Moscow to St. Petersburg: Slide presentation and Lecture on Peter the Great's Agenda in Creating St. Petersburg

Lecturer: Paul Bushkovitch, Professor of History, Yale University. 4:00 p.m. ~ Smith-Buonanno 201

Paul Bushkovitch is a professor of history at Yale University.  He is the author of a number of books on Russian history, including two studies of Peter the Great: Peter the Great: the Struggle for Power 1671-1725 (Cambridge, 2001) and Peter the Great (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).  He also published monographs on Religion and Society in Russia: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Oxford, 1992) and The Merchants of Moscow 1580-1650 (Cambridge, 1980).

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October 26, 2007 ~ Renato Poggioli: An International Symposium
9:00 a.m. ~ Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

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Saturday, October 27, 2007 ~ Nikita Khrushchev Memoirs and Their Legacy: A Symposium at the Watson Institute.

To attend, RSVP to Watson_Institute@brown.edu or call 401-863-2809.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 ~ 50 Years in Space: The Legacy of Sputnik in the Age of Putin

a cross-disciplinary panel of professors:

  • James W. Head, III, Geological Sciences
  • Sergei Khrushchev, Watson Institute for International Studies
  • Alexander Levitsky, Slavic Studies
  • Ethan Pollock, History

Open to All

12 Noon ~ Salomon 001

Sponsored by the Departments of Slavic Studies, Geological Sciences, and History

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Slavic Festival

April 20, 2007, 7:00 - 10:00 PM, Sayles Hall
  • Brown Klezmer Band
  • Bulgarian and Serbian Folk Dancing
  • Gypsy music
  • Russian, Ukranian, Czech, and Bulgarian Food

Admission: $6 advance sales, $8 at the door.

For reservations and information, contact Victoria Richter.

Sponsored by the Russian club, the Bulgarian club, the late night fund, and the Slavic Studies Department.

Marc L. Greenberg

Building a European Community: South Slavic Uses of Reconstructed Pasts

Co-sponsored by The Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts

November 13, 2006, 5:00 PM, Marston B1

Prof. Marc L. Greenberg is Chair and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. His interests include dialectology, historical linguistics, language contact, and sociolinguistics. As a Fulbright scholar he conducted fieldwork in the Slovene, Croatian, and Hungarian border areas, and he has written an innovative historical phonology of Slovene, the first comprehensive treatment of the topic. He is a co-founding editor of the journal Slovenski jezik/Slovene Linguistic Studies (Slovene Academy of Arts & Sciences/Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas).

Despite cultural, religious, linguistic, and other cleavages, South Slav intellectuals worked towards a singular group identity using language as the primary unifying element, building on their belief that they were the descendents of the ancient Illyrians. Now that the Yugoslav Project has unraveled, new origin myths, again using language, are in play. Prof. Greenberg's talk sketches the rise and fall of the unifying myth and examines some of the competing origin myths that ethnic entrepreneurs are using to define anew the place of South-Slavic-speaking groups in the context of Europe.

Bronislava Volkova

Death as a Semiotic Event in the works of Maha, Nemcova, Neruda, Capek, Hrabal, and Kundera

October 5, 2006, 4:00 PM, Marston B1

Professor Volkova is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

Prof. Volokva looks at the different ways in which the topic of death and its axiological background is portrayed in several major Czech authors. Death can be identifyed as tragedy, loss, calamity, withdrawal, housekeeping, chance, muder, escape, etc. The presentation will typologize not only this kind of conception of death, but also analyze the author's emotive and axiological framework that such a concept reveals. The most thorough portrayal of death is fond in Capek's Three novels and in Kundera's Immortality. While the nineteenth century writers express their feelings about death directly, Capek presents death as a theme of reflection. Hrabal and Kundera are evasive in their attitude to death and mask their feelings through ingeniuos structuring and detachment from the event.

Slavic Tea

September 14, 2006, 4:00 PM, Marston B1

Come join us for the first Slavic Tea of the semester. Meet members of the department and students in various Slavic languages courses. Tea and other refreshments will be served.