PREVIOUS EVENTS
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Lecture Series for Fall 2003
Dr. Elena Barkhatova
October 10, 2003
The Slavic
Dept. is pleased to present Dr. Elena Barkhatova (Curator of Prints and Drawings,
National Library of Russia, St.
Petersburg), who will speak (in Russian) on: "Visualizing Russia: Broadsides,
Posters and Photographs in the Special Collections of the National Library,
St. Petersburg" on Friday, October 10, at 2:00 pm in GFS 340 (Institute
of Modern
Russian Culture). The Saltykov Shchedrin National Library in St. Petersburg
is the oldest and largest library of rare books, periodicals and visual materials
in Russia Author of many books, catalogs and articles, Dr. Barkhatova is a
specialist in the history of the Russian graphic arts and photography.
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Dr. Mark Konecny (University of Southern California)
October 17,
2003
"Flying
Mice and Blue Birds, Black Cats and Stray Dogs: Performance in the Russian
Cabaret"
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Patricia Flaherty (University of Southern California)
November
7, 2003
Ms. Flaherty gave
a talk on Serge Rachmaninoff.
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Dr. Wendy Salmond (Chapman University)
November
14, 2003
Dr. Wendy Salmond
gave a talk on Russian icons.
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Previous Lectures 2002-2003
Dr. Adam Weiner, Wellesley College
April 25, 2003
Nabokov’s ‘Cloud, Castle, Lake’: A Recital with Reflections
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Dr. Svetlana Boym, Harvard University
Friday April 11, 2003
The Other Freedom: Pushkin/Tocqueville/Berlin/Axmatova
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Dr. Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago
Friday March 28, 2003
'Man on a Propoeller’: Charlie Chaplin and Soviet Avant-Garde Art
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Dr. Galin Tihanov, Department of European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University
February 28, 2003
Seeking a ‘Third Way’ for Soviet Aesthetics: Eurasianism, Marxism, Formalism
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Dr. Lada Panova, The Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow
November 1, 2002
Kak sdelan "Novyi Oziris" Kuzmina: Interteksty, Mifologemy, Zhiznetvorchestvo/ (How Mikhail Kuzmin's "Novyi Osiris" was Made: Intertexts, Mythemes, Life-as-Art)
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Dr. Andrei Toporkov, Senior Fellow at the Institute
of World Literature, RAN (currently a Fulbright Scholar at USC)
November 15, 2002
Zagovory v russkoi rukopisnoi tradicyi 17-18 vv.
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Professor Wolf Schmid, Institute of Slavistics, University of Hamburg
November 23, 2002
"Pikovaja dama" kak metatekstual'naja novella/ ("The Queen of Spades" as a metatextual novella)