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Past Events
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Conor O'Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Political Science and European Studies, University of Florida. Lecture entitled "The Advantages of Underdevelopment? The Politics of Second-Generation Economic Reform in the 'New' Europe"
Monday, April 20, 2009
Professor William Brumfield, Russian Studies and Architecture, Tulane University
"Pushkin's Boldino: National Myth and Provincial Reality in Contemporary Russia"
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Films of Yuri Norstein: An Animator's Journey. Animated shorts by Russian director Yuri Norstein (a presentation by Clare Kitson, author of Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey, preceded the first screening)
Tuesday, January 13 - Friday, January 16, 2009
Igor Pilshchikov, Leading Researcher, Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University. Nanovic Institute Visiting European Scholar Seminar. For more information and the seminar poster, including a complete list of lectures and events, click here
Friday, January 9 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Charles Barber, Professor of Art History, University of Notre Dame. Lecture entitled: "Before and Beyond Modernism: Icons as Art"
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Alice. Film by Czech director Jan Svankmajer (a presentation by Malynne Sternstein, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Chicago, preceded the first screening)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
David Gasperetti, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Notre Dame. Lecture entitled "And Now, Ladies and Gentleman, Introducing The Brothers Karamazov: or, Loosening Up Tied Ends"
Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Patrick Dewane, The Mushroom Picker. One-man play about a Czech-American soldier fighting in his ancestral homeland during World War II
August 31-November 23, 2008
Maxim Kantor, Selections from the Wasteland and Metropolis Print Suites, Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery, Snite Museum of Art. Wasteland principally revolves around Kantor's characteristic Russian themes: the repression and squalor of the late Soviet era, and the chaotic, crime-ridden, gangster-plagued birth of a new Russian State. But in Metropolis he has created a vast compendium of images inspired by ancient and modern art, newspapers and photography, on the lines of a medieval "Universal History" updated for our age, embracing geography, history, mythologies, stories pagan, biblical and Christian, illustrating societies, their hierarchies and power politics.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Holly Case Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University. Lecture entitled "The European Unification of World War II: Schemes from the East"
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Alexander Nevsky. Film by Sergei Eisenstein with musical score by Sergei Prokofiev (the screening was preceded by brief presentations by three Notre Dame faculty members: Alexander Martin, Department of History, Alyssa Gillespie, Department of German and Russian, and Susan Ohmer, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck. Lecture entitled "Seeking a National Idea: Russian Cinema Today"
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, Founder of the Siberian Civic Initiatives Support Center and the Community School Movement in Russia. Lecture entitled "Why Russians Like Putin: the Siberian Perspective"
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Oleg Proskurin, Fellow, Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) and Affiliated Faculty, Emory University. Lecture entitled "Politics, Sex, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Institution of Favoritism in the Mirror of Mock Poetry"
Monday, November 12, 2007
Oxana Semenyuk, exchange student at Penn High School. Presentation about Ukraine, Ukrainian culture, and Oxana's hometown of Ivano-Frankivsk
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Live HD telecast of the Met production, with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Renee Fleming in the leads; sung in Russian with English subtitles.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Moscow Festival Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," sponsored by ND Presents.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Professor Thomas Goltz, Visiting Scholar at the University of Montana at Missoula. Lecture and Video Presentation entitled "The Chechen National Disaster and Other Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Caucasus."
Saturday, September 23, 2006
PAC Classic Film Series: Screening of "The Battleship Potemkin," directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Nanovic Film Series: Screening of "The Rider Named Death," directed by Karen Shakhnazarov (Russia 2005), introduced by Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Bowdoin College.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Georgi Derluguian, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. Lecture entitled "The Dilemmas of Russian De-Democratization".
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
William Craft Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies and Lecturer in Architecture, Tulane University. Lecture entitled: "Church and Identity in Russia: The Tikhvin-Dormition Monastery and the Return of the Tikhvin Icon of the Theotokos".
