Past Events - September 2006
Past Events - May 2006
| May 10, Wednesday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Julia Bekman Chadaga, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center. "From Music to Murder: The Kreutzer Sonata and A Clockwork Orange." | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street , 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| May 11, Thursday | ||||
| Undergraduate Thesis Forum | Junior concentrators will present thesis projects to Slavic Concentrators and Faculty. | 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m | Barker 316 | |
| May 12, Friday | ||||
| Dissertation Defense | Jacob Emery, "Stock Exchanges: Heredity, Identity, and Metaphor in Modernist Slavic Literature." | 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Barker Center 114, Kresge Room | |
| May 17, Wednesday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Marek Nekula, Senior Fellow, Davis Center. “Divided City: Prague Public Space and Franz Kafka's Readings of Prague.” | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street , 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| May 18, Thursday | ||||
| Spring Reception | The Slavic Department's annual Spring Reception – Friends and family welcome. | 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Thomson room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street | |
Past Events - April 2006
| April 4, Tuesday | ||||
| Literary Study Group | Literary Study Group: Barry P. Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian and Provost, Dartmouth College , “Whose Whitman? When Russia First Heard America Singing.” | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, #S450. (Please note that the room has changed for this event) |
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| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Gilbert C. Rappaport, Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Univ. of Texas , “ Agreeing to Disagree: A Lexicalist Approach to Explaining Agreement Mismatch.” | 6:30 p.m. | Professor Flier's residence. | |
| April 6, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Alfred Thomas, Head of the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago , “Shakespeare's Bohemia .” | 4:15 p.m | 1730 Cambridge Street , 3 rd Floor, Room #S354 | |
| April 10, Monday | ||||
| The Slavic Department Presents | “The Lay of the Merchant Kalashnikov,” by M. Yu. Lermontov Performed by the students of the Slavic Department. | 5:00 p.m. | Thompson Room, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street | |
| April 20, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Matthew S. Witkovsky, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, “Avant-Garde Art for the Tourist Age: Štyrský and Toyen in Paris, 1925-1928.” | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| April 27, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Alexander Mihailovic, Professor of Comparative Literatures and Languages, Hofstra University , “A New Icarus: The Gender Politics of the St. Petersburg Mit'ki.” | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
Past Events - March 2006
| March 2, Thursday | ||||
| The Slavic Department Presents | A Concert of “Love in Russian Songs and Poetry,” with performances by the students of the Slavic Department. | 4:30 p.m. | Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street. | |
| March 7, Tuesday | ||||
| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Hakyung Jung, “Semantic and Syntactic Innovations in the Development of the Perfect in -no/-to in North Russian.” | 6:30 p.m | Professor Flier's residence (maps are available in Barker 374). Please tell Judy if you plan to attend. | |
| March 9, Thursday | ||||
| Slavic Literary Colloquium | Dennis Tenenboym, "Writing around the Zoo: Karamzin, Shklovsky and Nabokov in Berlin." | Professor Todd's residence (maps are available in Barker 374). Please tell Judy if you plan to attend. | ||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Brian Horowitz, Tulane University , “Jewish Philanthropy, Culture, Identity: The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment.” Co-sponsored with Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room #S354 | ||
| March 15, Wednesday | ||||
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Literary Study Group
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Edythe C. Haber, Professor Emerita University of Massachusetts, Boston and Center Associate, Davis Center , Harvard, “Humor in the Silver Age and Beyond: Teffi and Zoshchenko.” | 4:15 p.m | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| March 16, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago , “The Holocaust and the Matter.” | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| March 23, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Vera Pavlova. Poetry reading. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | ||
Past Events - February
| February 2, Thursday | ||||
| Slavic Literary Colloquium | Alexander Spektor, Slavic Department, Harvard University , "Between Mourning and Melancholy: the Articulation of Meaning and Responsibility in Krotkaia ." | 6:30 p.m.. | Professor Todd's residence. |
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| February 16, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Anna Krylova, Department of History, Duke University, and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Eastern and Eurasian Studies, “Women in Combat at the Soviet Front, or The Limits of Gender as a Category of Historical Interpretation." | 4:15 p.m | 1730 Cambridge Street , 3 rd Floor, Room #S354 | |
| February 21, Tuesday | ||||
| Literary Study Group | David Powelstock, Assistant Professor of Russian, Brandeis University, and Center Associate at the Davis Center of Eastern and Eurasian Studies, “Portrait of the Artist in a Complex Mirror: Narration and Authorship in Olesha's Envy ." | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3 rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Olga M. Mladenova, Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies, University of Calgary , “Rise and Evolution of the Three-Way Article System in the Bulgarian-Macedonian Dialect Continuum." | 6:30 p.m. | Professor Flier's residence. | |
| February 23, Thursady | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Mikhail Iampolski, Comparative Literature, New York University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, “Metaphors, Myth, and Facticity: Reading Shklovsky's Zoo ." | 4:15 p.m | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
Past Events -December
| December 1, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor John Malmstad,Slavic Department, Harvard University, "Martiros Sarian: 'European in Asia, Asian in Europe. | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, #S450. |
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| December 2, Friday | ||||
| Book Reading | Professor Svetlana Boym will read from her book The Future of Nostalgia. | 6.00 p.m. | Harvard Hall 201. | |
| December 6, Tuesday | ||||
| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Lenore Grenoble, Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College, "Shift and Switch: Grammatical Seduction à la russe," | 6:30p.m. | Professor Flier's residence. | |
| December 8, Thursday | ||||
Literature and Culture Seminar |
Inna Naroditskaya, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Northwestern Univeristy and Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, "The Operatic Tales of Catherine the Great.' | 12p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354. | |
Slavic Literary Colloquium |
Benjamin Paloff, Slavic Department, Harvard University, "The Middle Term: Intermediacy and the Shape of Metamorphosis in Platonov and Schulz." | 6: 30 p.m | Professor Todd's residence. | |
| December 16, Friday | ||||
| Slavic Department Holiday Party | 8:00 p.m. -11:30 p.m.. | |||
Past events - November 2006
| November 1, Tuesday | ||||
| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Professor Andrew Nevins and Clemens Mayr, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, "Non-Nominative Subjects in Russian: Some Theoretical Considerations." | 6:30 p.m. | Professor Flier's residence. | |
| November 7, Monday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | "Public Interiors Between Two Cultures: Conversation with Russian-American Artist Irina Nakhova," Professor Svetlana Boym, moderator. | 6:00 p.m. | Barker 133, 12 Quincy St. | |
| November 9, Wednesday | ||||
| Study Abroad Meeting | Learn about Study Abroad opportunities in Eastern Europe. Professor Joanna Nizynska, moderator, with speakers from the Office of International Programs, Middlebury College, and ACTR (American Council of Teachers of Russian). | 4:00 p.m. | Barker 316, 12 Quincy St. | |
| November 10, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Lily Alexander, Hofstra University and New York University, "Confessions of a Sinner: Author and Antihero in Russian and American Traditions." | 4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354. | |
| Slavic Literary Colloquium | Jacob Emery, Slavic Department, Harvard University, "'Things Engendered': Kinship and Metaphor in Andrei Bely's Petersburg." | 6:30 p.m. | Professor Todd's residence. | |
| November 15, Tuesday | ||||
| Meeting with the Dept. Chair and Graduate Students | Tea with the Chair and Slavic Department Graduate Students | 4:15 p.m | Barker 373. | |
| November17, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Olga Hasty, Princeton University, "He Writes Like a Woman: Briusov's Nelli." | 4:15 p.m | Kresge Room, Barker Center 114, 12 Quincy Street. | |
Past events - October 2006
| September 29, Thursday | ||||
| Slavic Department Fall Reception | 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Thompson Room (110), Barker Center , 12 Quincy Street . | ||
| October 4, Tuesday | ||||
| Slavic Linguistics Colloquium | Daniela Hristova, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Institute (fall); Visiting Assistant Professor, Slavic Department, Harvard (spring), Assistant Professor, University of Chicago , title of lecture to be announced. | 6:30 p.m. | Professor Flier's residence | |
| October 6, Thursday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Poetry Reading in Russian by Sergey M. Gandlevsky, poet, with translations by Philip Metres, John Carroll University | 4:15 p.m. | Kresge Room (114), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street. | |
| Slavic Literary Colloquium | Inna Mattei, Slavic Department, Harvard University , “Tears and Blushing: Sentimentalism Revisited." | 6:30 p.m | Professor Todd's residence. | |
| October 11, Tuesday | ||||
| Literature and Culture Seminar | Professor Elena G. Rabinovich, Institute for Philological Studies, St. Petersburg University, “Mute Capitals." | 4:15 p.m. | Barker Center 230, 12 Quincy Street. | |
| October 13-15, Thursday- Saturday | ||||
The Arts, National Identity and Politics in Belarus
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Davis Center, the Orsa-Romano Foundation, and the North American Association for Belarusian Studies.
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| Meeting with Theater Group | Meeting with members of the Jakub Kolas Theatre (Vitsebsk , Belarus) | October 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m. | Barker Center 133 | |
| Film Screening | Screening of “Occupation: Mysterium” followed by discussion | Thursday, October 13 4:15 p.m. |
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (location tentative at this time). | |
| Art Exhibit | Exhibit of contemporary Belarusian visual arts and photography | October 10-21 | Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall and Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown . | |
| Theatre Performance | Performances of “Chagall…Chagall” and “The Arrest” by the Jakub | October 13, 14, and 15,8:00 p.m., and matinee, October 15, at 2 p.m. | Kolas Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown | |
| Symposium | Friday, October 14, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Saturday, October 15,10:00-1:30 p.m. | Barker Center 133. | ||
| Poetry Reading | Saturday, October 15, 4:30-5:30 p.m. | Barker Center 133 | ||
| October 19, Wednesday | ||||
Literary Study Group
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Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory and FRAC Distinguished Scholar, Tufts University, “Seeing Chekhov Whole: Notes on Translating HisComplete Dramatic Corpus."
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4:15 p.m. | 1730 Cambridge Street, Room 354. | |
| October 20, Thursday | ||||
Literature and Culture Seminar
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Raffaella Vassena, Università degli Studi of Milan , "The Jewish Question in the Genre System of Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and the Problem of the Authorial Image." |
4:15 p.m. | 730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room 354. | |
| October 24, Monday | ||||
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
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Jonathan Bolton, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, "The Case of the Missing Poet: Anti-Semitism and the Beginnings of Czech Jewish Literature." |
4:15 p.m. | 730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room 354. | |