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UChicago Slavic Forum
May 11-12.
Stevanovich Center, or 5727 S. University Ave, Room 112.
The Keynote Lecture and Reception will both be on Friday night, the 11th.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Alexey Brunov Concert
Alexey Brunov Concert in Milwaukee
March 2
7pm
River Park Party Room, 1600 E. River Park Ct., Milwaukee, WI
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Study Abroad: Environmental Studies Programs at Lake Baikal
Baikal Environmental Studies: an 8 week summer program intended to help form the environmental professionals of tomorrow. Participants assist the Tahoe-Baikal Institute with hands-on research and restoration projects, gaining invaluable experience in how to work with state agencies, academic institutions, and NGOs to advance environmental initiatives and improve the environment of the Lake Baikal region. Application deadline: have students contact me *ASAP* if they are interested in applying as the formal deadline for this summer has passed.
Siberian Summer Adventure: a 6.5 week summer program. Students will prepare with intensive courses in Russian language and an overview course on the specific environmental challenges facing Siberia. Students then put the language skills to use and gain first hand knowledge of the local environment when they join a local NGO, The Great Baikal Trail Organization, on a trail building expedition. Application deadline: March 31, 2012.
Siberian Studies: offered as a semester or academic year-long course, it covers the history, development, and current state of Siberia. It combines academic courses with a hands-on internship to give students a broad understanding of environmental issues, the history behind them, and what local Russians think about them. Application deadline (for the fall ’12 semester): May 15, 2012. Continue reading →
Screening: Cinema Komunisto, Q & A with Director, Mila Turajlic
March 16
1 pm
Location:
Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
C307
Please join the Slavic Colloquium for a screening of the documentary Cinema Komunisto, which chronicles the fascinating story of Yugoslavian cinema under Tito. Cinema Komunisto played to a sold out theater at the Chicago International Film Festival, where it won the award for best documentary film, and to large audiences across former Yugoslavia.
The screening will be followed by Q & A with director, Mila Turajlic.
Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by CEERES, the Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Film Studies Center.
Posted in: CEERES Events/News, Chicago Events, University of Chicago Events
Call for Papers: Engaging the Law in Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Call for Papers: Engaging the Law in Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Application Deadline: May 7, 2012
The Kennan Institute, in partnership with the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin Law School, is pleased to announce a new workshop series on “Engaging the Law in Eurasia and Eastern Europe.” Continue reading →
Posted in: Calls for Papers and Upcoming Conferences
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World – Chicagoland Premiere
Unity Productions Foundation presents From Executive Producers Michael Wolfe and Alex Kronemer, and narrated by Academy Award winning performer Susan Sarandon
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World
Chicagoland Premiere
Saturday, March 10th – 3pm
Opening Remarks by Michael Wolfe
Tickets are $15 (includes appetizers) Continue reading →
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Prague Summer Schools 2012
The Prague’s Center for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku – CPVP) is pleased to announce the forthcoming Prague Summer Schools 2012 on the following topics:
European Summer Institute on the Future of Europe: Lobbying in Brussels
Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology
Summer School on European Union: Interests versus Culture?
Summer School on China: A World Superpower – Myth or Reality?
Where? Summer Schools will take place in Prague, Czech Republic
When? June 30 – July 7, 2012
Why? The Prague Summer Schools are seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to enjoy their summer holidays in the unique academic and cultural environment. Continue reading →
“Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation”
The 2011-12 Sawyer Seminar on “Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Transformation”
invites you to a symposium on:
POST WWII PURGES AND
THE MAKING OF MODERN
EUROPEAN STATES
Friday, March 2
2:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Reception to follow Continue reading →
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Lunch with Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
Mead Treadwell
Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
February 29, 2012
Harris School of Public Policy, 1155 E. 60th St.
12:00PM – Free Lunch, Student Lounge
12:30-1:30 – Lecture, Lecture Hall
Please RSVP for this event. Continue reading →
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Course on 19th Century Russian Cultural Production
19th Century Russian Cultural Production
Spring Quarter
meeting time will be Thursday, 10:30 – 1:20
We are all quite aware that culture does not only happen when Tolstoy picks up a pen or Tchaikovsky sits down at a piano. Yet still, we often know a great deal more about these moments than we do about the everyday cultural context that informs them, including fundamental changes in the way people create and experience art and culture more generally.
This course attempts to view culture not by its canonical works, genres, styles, and artists, but rather by its “economy,” or modes and sites of production and consumption. More specifically, we will ask the following questions: How does Russian culture function as a system in the 19th century, and what economic, technological, social and aesthetic values affect its operation? What are the means of production of culture? How are cultural economies shaped, and how are values assigned to cultural products?
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