Departmental Events

SPRING 2012

Slavic Lecture Series
New Approaches to Russian Poetry

 
Sarah Valentine, University of California, Riverside.  "Translating Gennady Aygi: Toward a Postcolonial Russia Poetics".  Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 4:00pm, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 317, 63 High Street.

Slavic Colloquium

Talk by Kevin Repp, Beinecke Library curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts. Wednesday, February 15, 4:30pm, Room  39.

Slavic Film Colloquiua

February 28th: A documentary double-feature screening of Georgi and the Butterflies (Bulgaria, 2004) and Czech Dream (The Czech Republic, 2004) with an introduction and discussion led by Mihaela Mihailova. Both films to be shown on DVD with English subtitles.

March 27th: A screening of the Soviet classic The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) with English subtitles on a newly acquired 16 mm print. With an introduction and discussion led by Vadim Shneyder.

April 10th: Soviet holiday films double feature: Irony of Fate, or Enjoy your Bath! (1975) and The Carnival Night (1956). Andrey Tolstoy (Film and Comparative Literature) will introduce the films and lead a discussion on questions of religion in the Soviet Union and the belief in miracles expressed in such films.

Dissertation Colloquia

Wednesday, April 4, 4pm, WLH 114.
Kerry Philben presents first Dissertation Chapter. "Musical Performance in the Russian Realist Novel".

Wesnesday, January 18, 4-5:30pm. 401 HGS
Wednesday, January 25, 4-5:30pm, 401 HGS

Fall 2011

Slavic Dissertation Colloquia

Friday, November 10, 4-7pm 116 WLH
Elena Prokhorova, Asst. Professor Russian.  College of William and Mary
"From the Collective to the Gang: Spectacle and Simulation in
Stanislav Govorukhin's The Meeting Place Cannot be Changed."

Wednesday, September 21, 4 to 6:10pm
The Soviet Industrial Sublime: The Art of Russia’s Age Of Industry, 1917-1934. Nicholas Kupensky
From Pravda to Verite: Soviet Democracy on Film and Television, 1953-1982. Raisa Sidenova

Wednesday, September 28, 4 to 5:10pm
Virgin Lands and Slavic Soul: The Construction of a Soviet Central Asia in Russian Literature. David Willey

 Fall Reception
Saturday, September 24, 4pm-6pm, in the Pierson College Master’s House
(click above to view pictures)

Lecture:
Monday, October 17, 4:00, Pierson College Master's House, 231 Park Street.
Professor David A. Frick, UC Berkeley presents, Three Religions And Five Confessions In One City: Conflicts And Coexistence In Seventeenth-Century Eilno.

Student Slavic Colloquium:
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4:00-6:00PM, 320 York Street, Room 401
Lecture by Nikolay Mitrokhin, Ph.D.  The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Politics of Official Anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1960-1980s.

Art in Russia, 1770-1920
A Symposium at Yale
March 24-25, 2011
All symposium events to be held in the Loria Center, Room 351 (190 York St., New Haven)

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011

5:30-6:30 PM

Keynote Address

Rosalind Blakesley (History of Art, University of Cambridge)

“Picturing Adolescence in Imperial Russia: Dmitry Levitsky's Smolny

Portraits, 1772-1776”

6:30-7:15 PM

Reception

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Session 1: Criticism and Interpretation

Margaret Samu (Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art), “Realist Critics and the Female Nude in Nineteenth-Century Russia”

Janet Kennedy, (Art History, Indiana University), “The Making of a Modern Monument: Paolo Trubetskoi's Alexander III and the Perils of Interpretation”

10:50-12:20 PM

Session 2: Evolving Genres

Molly Brunson (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University), “Painting History, Realistically”

Aglaya Glebova (Art History, University of California, Berkeley), “Beyond Color: Arkhip Kuindzhi’s Landscapes”

1:30-3:00 PM

Session 3: Modern Icons

Wendy Salmond (Art History, Chapman University), “‘Russia’s Last Religious Painter:’ Victor Vasnetsov and the Late Icon”

Maria Taroutina (Art History, Yale University), “Triangulating Modernism: Icons, Vrubel and Soviet Constructivism”

The symposium is free and open to the public.

The symposium is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University, the Stanley T. Woodward Lectureship, the European Studies Council, with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US Department of Education, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of the History of Art.

For further information, please contact Molly Brunson (molly.brunson@yale.edu) or Maria Taroutina (maria.taroutina@yale.edu).

Slavic Student Colloquium

Spring 2011

ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN WLH 209.

Wednesday, February 16, 4-6 PM
Talk by Tatjana Lorkovic, Curator of the Slavic and East European Collection at the Yale Library
 
Monday, February 28, 5-7 PM
Workshop on Mikhail Chulkov's The Comely Cook, led by Profs. Bella Grigoryan and Molly Brunson (Yale, Slavic).  All participants should read the attached text beforehand (as well as a couple of small secondary articles to follow shortly) and come prepared for spirited discussion.
 
Wednesday, March 30, 4-6 PM
Talk by Prof. Ilya Vinitsky (UPenn, Slavic)
 
Monday, April 4, 4:30-6 PM
Talk by Prof. Bella Grigoryan (Yale, Slavic): "The Reader in the Province: Print Culture, Male Friendship and Gentry Identity in Andrei Bolotov's Domestic Advice, 1779-1785"
 
Wednesday, April 27, 4-6 PM
Paper Conference: an excellent way to polish your works in progress (be they potential conference presentations, articles, term papers, or whatever else you might have cooking) at every stage of development.  Papers will be circulated one week in advance, then given 20-30 minutes of discussion.

Fall 2010

Slavic Student Colloquium

Monday, November 8, 5-7 PM
Location: WLH 210

Workshop: Teaching Literature in the Slavic Field.  This workshop will address pedagogical issues both specific to our field and those more generally applicable to any discussion section, lecture course, or seminar.  Expert panelists Professor Molly Brunson and Rita Safariants will discuss their experiences preparing a lecture course and teaching an L5 course (that is, an undergrad course with readings and discussion in Russian).  Attendees are encouraged to bring in lesson plans and/or examples of particularly successful (or unsuccessful!) methods or topics of discussion.

Monday, November 29, 5-7 PM

Location: TBA

Lecture: “Language Policy and Conflict Resolution: South Slavic Examples”

Dr. Anita Peti-Stantic, Fulbright Scholar, Tufts University, and Associate Professor of South Slavic Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Wednesday, December 1, 4-6 PM

Location: HGS 217A

Panel: Russian Émigré Literature

Panelists: Roman Utkin, Zakhar Ishov, Nick Kupensky

Wednesday, December 8, 4-6 PM

Location: HGS 217A

Workshop: Academic Writing

This workshop presents an exciting opportunity to 1) hear about your colleagues’ research and 2) receive constructive feedback on your own work.  Papers will be pre-circulated the week before to minimize the need for presentation and maximize discussion time.

Spring 2010

Thursday, May 6, 7:00 p.m.

Alexi Lidov of the Research Center for Eastern Christian Culture, Moscow "The Holy Fire: Art Historical Aspects of the Regular Miracle in Jerusalem" Presented by the Medieval/Renaissance Forum and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

2010 Talent Slam

Students gathered on April 9th to showcase their musical, poetic and other assorted talents, as well as their mastery of the Russian language, at the Slavic Department's Annual Talent Slam.   Click here for photos!

Holiday Gathering 2009
(click above to view pictures)