In Memoriam: George Bisztray
June 2013
June 5-8 @ 7:00 PM
Walnut Street Theatre
825 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
"A Little Play About Betrayal, For One Actress" by Oleksandr Irvanets. Translated by Prof. Taras Koznarsky and Marta Baziuk. This translation was featured in Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky's Ukrainian Literature in Translation.
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May 2013
May 4
Columbia University
Prof. Kate Holland will be presenting at the Dostoevsky in Context Conference. All conference presentations will be published in Dostoevsky in Context, Cambridge University Press.
April 2013
Prof. Veronika Ambros has had an article published!
“Pëtr Bogatyrëv (1893-1971) et Emil František Burian (1904-1959). Entre formalisme et structuralisme, entre ethnographie et sémiotique du théâtre, entre folklore et theater moderne” in Pëtr Bogatyrëv et les débuts du Cercle de Prague, Céline Trautmann-Waller, Serguei Tchougounnikov (éds.). Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013.
Prof. Joseph Schallert has had an article published. “Revisiting the "ú > o" shift in Balkan Slavic,” Canadian Slavonic Papers, March-June, 2013, 40 pp. (in press).
Abstract:
The article revisits the well-known question of the development ú > o in Balkan Slavic (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Torlak) in the light of advances in research achieved over recent decades in a variety of fields (dialectology, historical phonology, Old Church Slavonic, epigraphy). The paper 1) presents a synthesis of the evidence for ú > o in modern Balkan Slavic (sec. II) and the earliest attestations (sec. III), 2) provides a critical analysis of the different theories which attempt to explain the existence of systems with split distribution, where ú > o in affixes, but ú is retained in root syllables (sec. IV), 3) proposes historical connections between the isoglosses for ú > o and those of a range of other phenomena (phonological, lexical, accentual) (sec. III, V).
Prof. Emeritus Lubomir Dolezel has had his memoirs published. Life with Literature: Memories and Conversations
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Prof. Veronika Ambros has had an article published!
"Keine so zufällige Begegnung zwischen Maske und Statue. V+W, golem und die Prager Schule” [The not so Accidental Meeting between a Mask and a Statue. Voskovec and Werich, golem and the Prague school]. Birgit Krehl ed. Slavisches Drama und Theater in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Muenchen, Otto Sagner,2012,83-93.
Doctoral student Timothy Ormond (class of 2013) received a grant from the Friends of the Princeton University Library to conduct research at the Costen Children's Library for his research entitled, "The Monumental Child: Samokhvalov's Children's Illustrations of the 1920s."
Prof. T. Allan Smith has published a new book! Click here for details.
Sergius Bulgakov, Unfading Light. Contemplations and Speculations, translated, edited and introduced by Thomas Allan Smith, Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. xlii, 512 pages.
April 26 @ 6:30PM
AH400
Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture. CIUS Presents Dr. Mykola Soroka, "Between Homeland and Hostland: Volodymyr Vynnychenko as Displaced Writer."
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April 23 @ 2PM
AH 406B
Polish Placement Test
April 18 @ 12-1 PM
Library of Congress
European Division Conference Room
Jefferson Building, Room 250
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington D.C. 20540
Prof. Christina Kramer will be discussing and reading from the book that she recently translated: My Father's Books by Ambassador Luan Starova.
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April 17 @ 4-5 PM
United Macedonian Diaspora
1510 H St., NW, Suite 900
Washington D.C. 20005
Prof. Christina Kramer, "The Macedonian Language 1913-2013: A Century of Change."
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April 15 @ 5-7PM
AH 400
Prof. Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
"Ethics and Ethnicity in Isaak Babel's Red Cavalry"
This talk will focus on Babel's "My First Goose."
Prof. Sicher Bio.
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April 9, 11 & 12
Prof. Donna Orwin gave talks on Tolstoy's Sevastopol Sketches (Why Tolstoy's War Writing Does Not Grow Old) at West Point (Apr. 9) and Brandeis University (Apr. 11), and participated in a colloquium on the ethics of the warrior at Boston College (Apr. 12).
April 6
Prof. Ann Komaromi participated in the 2013 Caxton Club/Newberry Library Symposium on the Book, Outsiders: Zines Samizdat & Alternative Publishing.
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April 5, 6, 7 @ 8:30-10:20 AM
AH 206
American Comparative Literature Association
2013 Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto
Panel: Dissident Writing, Literature, and Global Media Alumni Hall, Room 206
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Thomas Epstein, Boston College
“Culture as Resistance: The Case of the ‘Unofficial Culture’ of Leningrad”
Anastassia Kostrioukova, University of Toronto
“‘Petersburg text’ and Leningrad’s Samizdat Periodicals”
Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Oxford
“The Reading Habits of the Leningrad Underground”
Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union
“Samizdat #37 as Affirmation of Conversion to the Orthodox Faith among the Soviet Intelligentsia”
April 6, 8:30–10:20
Palmer Rampell, Yale University
“Civil Disobedience in the 21st Century: The Case of Liu Xiaobo”
Barbara Falk, Canadian Forces College
“American Dissidents: Moscow’s Puppets or Rights Revolutionaries?”
Mehraneh Ebrahimi-Eshratabadi, Western University
“Collective Paranoia: Discourse of Humanrightism”
Farkhondeh Shayesteh, Yale University
“Diaspora and Dislocation: (Mis) Remembered Spaces”
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Maria Rewakowicz, University of Washington
“Shades of Dissent: The Ukrainian Literary Milieu of the 1960s and Its Impact on Post-Independence Literature”
Allan Reid, University of New Brunswick
“‘Truth’ as Dissidence: The Creation of a Genre”
Christopher Carr, Brown University
“Alexander Herzen and the Redemption of the Superfluous Man through August Cieszkowski’s Concept of the Deed”
Josefina Lundblad, University of California, Berkeley
“Staging the Gulag: The Plays of Shalamov and Solzhenitsyn”
ACLA Panels Featuring Our Faculty
April 7, 11-12:50
Culture, Politics, and the State
Timothy Donahue, Columbia University, and Alastair Morrison, Columbia University
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 3312
252 Bloor Street West
Margaret Doherty, Harvard University
“The Politics of State Patronage”
Alastair Morrison, Columbia University
“‘Murdering to Dissect’: Melodrama, Cultural Studies, and Public Healthcare”
Glyn Salton-Cox, Yale University
“Lumpen Londoners in Thatcher’s Britain: Mike Leigh’s Naked”
Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto
“Politics and Culture: Dramatic Encounters”
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Recalculating Route...Please Wait: Eastern European and Eurasian Transitions and Global (Re)Positioning in Post-Socialism
Marina Anti ć , University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Room 4420
252 Bloor Street West
Vlatka Velčić , California State University, Long Beach
“From Utopia Through the Apocalypse to Europe: Negotiating Post-Yugoslav Space”
Marina Antić , University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Deterritorialization of Identity in ‘Eastern Europe’ in Transition: On ‘traveling west and always arriving east’”
Matthew Gonzales, California State University, Long Beach
“Temporal Relocation of the Exile: Searching for An-Other Present in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender”
Dragana Obradović , University of Toronto
“The Phantasmagoria of Kitsch in the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić”
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Attitudes Towards the Center: Literary Maps of Central and East-European Cityscapes
Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto; Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa
Lillian Massey Building, Room 205
125 Queen’s Park
Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto
“Prague—a Haunted Centre. The Labyrinth of the City in the Works of Franz Kafka, Ji ř í Weil, and Bohumil Hrabal”
Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto
“Emplacing Otherness in Kyiv: The Case of Beilis and the Battle of Imagination
Agnieszka Herra, Western University
“Occupation within the Walls: Stefan Chwin’s Gda ń sk”
Jorge Lizarzaburu
“Parabolic Cartographies and Metaphorical Mapping: Nietzsche, Kafka, Camus and the ‘Real’”
April 5, 8:30–10:20
Repositioned Realisms
Kate Holland, University of Toronto; Jeff Gatrall, Montclair State University; A. Sean Pue, Michigan State University
Goldring Student Centre, Room 218
150 Charles Street West
Kate Holland, University of Toronto
“Degeneration, Russian-style: Biological Determinism and Political Satire in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlyov Family”
Janice Zehentbauer, Western University
“Iron and Blood: Mapping Perception and Illness in Benito Pérez Galdós’s Fortunata y Jacinta”
Derek Fisher, Texas A&M University
“The Dirty American Dream: Tracing the Transatlantic Lineage of Dirty Realism, French Literature, and Psychoanalysis”
Hunter Bivens, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Die deutsche Misère?: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children”
ACLA Panels Featuring Our Graduate Students
April 7, 8:30–10:20
Dissident Writing, Literature, and Global Media
Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Oxford
Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 206
121 St. Joseph Street
Thomas Epstein, Boston College
“Culture as Resistance: The Case of the ‘Unofficial Culture’ of Leningrad”
Anastassia Kostrioukova, University of Toronto
“‘Petersburg text’ and Leningrad’s Samizdat Periodicals”
Josephine von Zitzewitz, University of Oxford
“The Reading Habits of the Leningrad Underground”
Milutin Janjic, Graduate Theological Union
“Samizdat #37 as Affirmation of Conversion to the Orthodox Faith among the Soviet Intelligentsia”
March 2013
Prof. Leonid Livak is featured in the Psychological Students' Association newsletter of March 2013!
Read it here.
Undergraduate student Sophie Narod wins this year's Nancy Park Travel Scholarship to Russia. She will work as a volunteer at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in Moscow.
March 26
Departmental Seminar Series
Prof. Mathew Light, Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
"Russia, the Death Penalty, and Europe: The Ambiguities of Influence"
March 18
Timothy Ormond defended his doctoral thesis!
"Anna Karenina Illustrated: Russian and Soviet Illustrated Editions of Tolstoy's Novel, 1914-1982"
March 18 @ 4-6 PM
Munk School 108N
Prof. Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University
"Laughter and Rebellion in Russian Culture: From Tolstoy to Pussy Riot"
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March 15 @ 3-6 PM
Alumni Hall 100
Slavic Department Talent Show
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March 12 @ 7-9 PM
Alumni Hall 400
Visiting Prof. Piotr Kajak
"Pop-Identity and Pop-Patriotism - How I Use Popular Culture in Teaching Polish as a Foreign/Second Language"
March 4 @ 3-4:30 PM
Munk School 108N
Veselko Grubišić, Croatian Ambassador to Canada
"The Republic of Croatia: the European Union's 28th Member State"
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February 2013
Prof. Julia Mikhailova wins the Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award!
Doctoral student Ian Garner receives the UTAA Graduate Scholar Award of Excellence!
Prof. Tamara Trojanowska and Visiting Prof. Piotr Kajak are featured in an OMNI ON In Kultura interview
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February 26 @ 7-9 PM
Alumni Hall 400
Doctoral student Lukasz Wodzynski
"Nests of the Worlds': Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Polish Culture"
February 26
Dr. Mayhill Fowler, Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow
"Soviet Ukrainian Tango?: The Problem of Popular Culture in the Soviet Borderlands."
January 2013
January 10
Eva Slaisova defended her doctoral thesis!
"Semiotic Games of Voskovec and Werich's Liberated Theatre: A Contribution to European Experimental Theatre"
December 2012
December 6
Amanda Greber defended her doctoral thesis!
Amanda Greber, "Proper Language, Proper Citizen: Standard Linguistic Practice and Identity in Macedonian Primary Education"
