Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Current Events - April 2008

April 1, Tuesday
	Literary & Culture Seminar:	Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Slavisches Institut of Heidelberg University, “Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's War and Peace (Vol. II, Part Five, chapt. IX and X) and Young Krull's First Visit to the Theater in Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Book I, chapt. 5).” Please note the change in day and room.	4:15-6:00 p.m.	12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, room 133.
April 3, Thursday
	Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture:	Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Professor, Comparative Literature and Director, Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University, “Milosz and Brodsky: Poetry with a Foreign Accent.”	4:15-6:00 p.m.	1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room S354.
April 3-5, Thursday-Saturday
	Aleksandr Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard	Aleksandr Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard “Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia’s Greatest Poet Father of Modern Russian Literature and the Black Russians of the 20th Century.” RSVP Requested	Thursday - 6:00–8:00 p.m. Opening Reception, Poetry Recital & Opera Clips Thompson Room, Barker Center for the Humanities, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge Friday - 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd Floor Library, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge Saturday - 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Center for Government & International Studies (CGIS) South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020) 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
April 4, Friday
	Central and East European Poetry SLAM! Presented by the GSC and CEES (Central and East European Society).	Central and East European Poetry SLAM! Do you have a favorite Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Serbian, or Hungarian poem? Want to share it and your translation skills with the world? Then come read your favorite Central and Eastern European poetry in translation in a friendly SLAM atmosphere! Channel your inner Akhmatova, let loose your secret Slowacki... fun times to be had and FABULOUS PRIZES to be won! • Three levels of competition: Beginner, Advanced, and Native Speaker • Original translations and poetry encouraged! (Reading in 2 languages) • Musical accompaniment, props, and costumes a plus! • Gift certificates to the Harvard Bookstore will be awarded! • Coffee and pastries will be served! Come to compete or just enjoy refreshments and some fabulous poetry. Invite family and friends. All are welcome! * Please sign up for a slot on our line-up by emailing the name of your poem and your language level to: ce[dot]european[dot]society[at]gmail[dot]com	6:30-8:00 p.m.	Café Gato Rojo (basement of Lehman Hall).
April 10, Thursday
	Literary Colloquium:	Matthew Herrington, Harvard University, “History, Nature, and Polemic in Pushkin's Bronze Horseman.” Please contact Judy if you plan on attending	6:30 p.m.	Professor Todd's Residence
April 17, Thursday
	Literature & Culture Seminar:	Michael Kunichika, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College, “The Stone Women of the Steppe: The Cultural Life of a Modernist Artifact.”	4:15-6:00 p.m.	1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room S354.
April 24, Thursday
	Department of Visual & Environmental Studies - Film History/Theory Seminar:	Yuri Tsivian, Professor of Film History, Chicago University, and Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University, “On Chaplin in Russian Avant-Garde Art and on the Laws of Fortuity in Art.”	4:00 p.m.	24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center Room B-04.
April 25, Friday
	Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies:	Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. Harvard College •Andreea Akerele, The Effect of Government Policy on Roma (Gypsy) Welfare: Evidence from Romania •Rebecca Gong, Russia's Anti-Western Generation: A study of the "Nashi" Pro-Kremlin Youth Movement •Sara Kate Heukerott, The Hardest Knot: Structure and the Semblance of Real Life in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina •Samuel Hodgkin, Popular Poetic Culture in Russian Imperial Turkestan •Olga Kamensky, How is an Elephant Like a Grand Piano: Nabokov’s Translation of Alice in Wonderland •Nina Kouyoumdjian, Separation Anxiety: Seeking Statehood in the South Caucasus •Paul Linden-Retek, Public Responsibility, Solidarity, and Citizenship: Vaclav Havel and Jurgen Habermas on Morality and Democratic Politics •Dritan Nesho, Leadership Matters: How Leaders Shape the Formation of New Democracies (Post-Communist Europe, 1990- 1997) •Daniel Schulte, The Icon and Time: How Vladimir Nabokov Freezes Time in an Iconographic Description in Speak, Memory •Maya Tsukernik, Russian Pronatalism Then and Now: An Empirical Analysis Wellesley College •Laura Crisafulli, Vasili Vereshchagin's Turkestan Series: Orientalism and Central Asia •Megan Turner, Deconstructing the Hegelian Dialectic in Herzen Wheaton College •Evan Bell, The Orphan Crisis in Russia •Julia Bolt, European "Protection" of East European Roma Rights in the Accession Process: Rhetoric or Reality? •Michael Freese, Political Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Organizations, Ideologies, and Activities •Paul Shapiro, The Sun Never Sets On Putin: The Perpetual Presidency of Vladimir Vladimirovich •Olympia M.E. Sonnier, Russian Stereotypes Perpetuated by Mainstream American Film	2:00–5:45 p.m.	1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level.
May 1, Thursday
	Literature & Culture Seminar:	Evgenii Bershtein, Associate Professor of Russian, Reed College, “Masculinity and Pornography in Sokurov's Films.”	4:15-6:00 p.m.	1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room S354.