Recent Events

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LECTURE SERIES FOR FALL 2006

For times and venues of upcoming events please contact the Slavic department, at 213-740-2735 or slavic@usc.edu

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Professor Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College

September 29, 2006 at 2pm in Taper Hall 271

Professor Melissa Frazier will speak on "Romantic Authorship in the 'Library for Reading': Writing to Customers and Friends."
Please call 213/740-2735 for more information or directions.

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Professor Konstantine Klioutchkine, Pomona College

October 20, 2006 at 2pm in Taper Hall 271

Professor Konstantine Klioutchkine will speak on "Between Sacrifice and Indulgence: Nikolai Nekrasov as a Model for the Intelligentsia."

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Professor Roman Timenchik, Hebrew University

December 1, 2006 at 2pm in Taper Hall 271

Professor Roman Timenchik will speak on "Akhmatova's Poetics."

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LECTURE SERIES FOR SPRING 2007

For times and venues of upcoming events please contact the Slavic department, at 213-740-2735 or slavic@usc.edu

Professor Rebecca Stanton, Barnard College

January 19, 2007 at 2pm in Taper Hall 271

Professor Rebecca Stanton will speak on "From 'Underground' to 'In the Basement': How Odessa Supplanted Petersburg as the Capital of the Russian Literary Imagination."

Professor Steven Cassedy, UC San Diego

February 9, 2007

"Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Stone Wall of Science."

In January of 1911, Wassily Kandinsky attended an all-Schoenberg concert at which some of the Viennese composer’s purportedly "atonal" works were performed. Kandinsky felt he had met a kindred spirit, wrote an enthusiastic letter to Schoenberg, and produced three compositions inspired by the concert. No matter how revolutionary Schoenberg and Kandinsky thought their projects were, both were operating within the confines of late nineteenth-century physics and perceptual psychology. For both, artistic freedom was ultimately limited by "nature." Schoenberg’s music was not so "atonal" nor were Kandinsky’s compositions as "free" as many have thought. The lecture includes a performance and analysis of Schoenberg’s piano piece op. 11, no. 1.

Professor Alexander Dolinin, University of Wisconsin

March 2, 2007

Professor Alexander Dolinin will speak on "Pushkin's A Feast during the Time of the Plague and the Unity of the 'Little Tragedies'."

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Lectures and Events in Fall 2005

Bianca Sulpasso, University of Rome, La Sapienza

September 2, 2005

"Anticlericalism in Russian Obscene Verse: The Cycle of Adam Olsuf'ev." ________________________________________________________________________________________

The Poetry and Painting of Pavel Filonov at the Getty Research Institute

September 30, 2005

The performative reading of Pavel Filonov's "Propoven' o prorosli mirovoi" by faculty and students.________________________________________________________________________________________

Sergei Gandlevsky

October 14, 2005

The Russian poet gave a reading from his works.

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Lada Panova, Institute of the Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences

October 28, 2005 at 2 p.m.

Lada Panova will speak on “L’Egypte à la russe: Russia’s Discovery and Appropriation of Ancient Egypt.”

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Tatiana Akishina, University of Southern California

November 11, 2005 at 2 p.m. in the Slavic department

Tatiana Akishina will present and discuss the undergraduate interview project on "Survivors of the Stalin Era" that
she oversaw during her trip to Russia this past summer 2005.

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Oksana Bulgakowa, Senior Research Fellow, Zentrum fur Literaturwissenschaft, Berlin, and Professor of Film Studies, International Film School, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne

November 19, 2005

Oksana Bulgakowa will show and discuss her 1998 film "The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein” (France-Germany; with Dietmar Hochmuth) at 1 pm in the Leavey Library Auditorium on the main USC campus. She will also present a lecture 4 pm in the School of Cinema.

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Lectures and Events in Spring 2006

David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh

February 2, 2006 at 1:30 pm in Taper Hall 170

David Birnbaum will present a lecture on “Applications of Electronic Text Technology to the Study of Russian Versification."

February 3, 2006 from 12-4:30 pm in THH 320

David Birnbaum will host a hands-on workshop entitled “Introduction to Electronic Text Technology for Slavists."

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lllicit Relics: Icons of Stalinism

February 17-18, 2006

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A Symposium on Recent books on Russian Poetry

April 7, 2006 5-7 pm

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2006 California Slavic Colloquim

April 7-9, 2006

The annual conference of graduate students in Slavic Languages and Literatures took place at the University of Southern California with the participation of graduate students from USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Stanford.

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Leonid Livak, University of Toronto

April 28, 2006 at 2 pm

Leonid Livak will present a lecture entitled "France's Russian Secret: Russian émigrés in French cultural life, 1920-1940."