"Ballet's Magic Kingdom During the Modernist Period of Russian Art"

"Empire, Nation, and the Quest for Modernist Aesthetics in Russia"

Irina Shevelenko, Assistant Professor of Slave Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin

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Location: Slavic Library, Building 240

 “Life Writing in the 1830s: Viazemsky's Fon-Vizin and Pushkin's Table Talk”

Andrew Kahn, University Reader in Russian Literature, University of Oxford

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Lecture by Marietta Chudakova, Professor of Literature, Moscow Literary Institute

Location: Slavic Library, Building 240

This talk will be conducted in Russian with no interpreter.

In Pigott (Building 260) room 113

Michael Eskin of Columbia University will speak about some of his research interests. The lecture, titled "Wake-Up Call: Grünbein, Descartes, Pushkin," explores the significance of literature for life through the prism of Durs Grünbein's dialogue with René Descartes and Aleksandr S. Pushkin.

The talk is co-sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures, CREEES, Comparative Literature, German Studies, the DLCL Philosophy Reading group, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

Andrei Krasulin: A Conversation and Retrospective of Work 23 January 2008, 5:15 PM. Cummings Art Building, Art 2. Poster. Sponsored by: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Introduction by Professor Gregory Freidin:

Welcome Brunch with Liudmila Ulitskaya January 18, 2008 10:30am-1pm Terrace Room. Poster A welcome brunch for Writer in Residence Ludmila Ulitskaya and her husband, sculptor Andrei Krasulin. Followed by a colloquium with Ulitskaya, in which she will discuss her short story "Queen of Spades" from Sonechka: A Novel and Stories. Copies of the story are available from Ann Gelder in 260-108 or from the DLCL Writer in Residence Web site. (Click Research at the top of this page, then click Writer in Residence.) RSVP to agelder@stanford.edu. An Evening with Ludmila Ulitskaya

Catered Russian Dinner with Sasha Abashkin and Moscow Student Advisors at Slavianskii Dom Date: January 17th, 2008 Time: 7:00pm Place: Slavianskii Dom Open to all students interested in studying abroad in Moscow or simply talking about Russia, Russian, and Russians and eating Russian food. Please RSVP to Chloe Pinkerton (chloe08@stanford.edu) ASAP.

Date: Tuesday, January 15th Time: 6:00pm Place: Slavianskii Dom

An International Symposium Tresidder Union, Oak West Room Stanford University October 19-20, 2007 Stanford University Hoover Institution School of Humanities And Sciences Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Co-sponsored by: Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages – Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies – Stanford Humanities Center – Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies – Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Toby Holtzman