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CREEES sponsors a variety
of events which are open to the public. If you
would like to receive information about these
events by mail or email, please contact
Sue Purdy Pelosi
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| 2006 May and June Events
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"The Comecon's International Investment Bank and the Crisis of Developed Socialism"
David R. Stone
Associate Professor of History, Kansas State University;
2005-06 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present:
"Camera Buff (Amator)"
Directed by Krzysztof Kielowski, Poland, 1979
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
One of Kielowski's first feature films after his successful but troubled career
in documentary, "Camera Buff" tells the story of Filip Mosz, a humble, amateur camera buff who follows his obsession
with filmmaking through the ethical and personal dilemmas faced by Kielowski himself. Often tragi-comic in its
depiction of the political realities of 1970s Poland, the power of the camera to expose those realities, and
the accompanying distortions inherent in every act of filmmaking.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
Silk Road Lecture Series at Stanford University presents:
"Why Do Caves Need Murals? Symbolic Cosmos in Cave Shrines at Dunhuang"
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University
Thursday, May 4, 2006 7:30 PM
Building 420 Room 041, Jordan Hall, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Co-sponsored by Silk Road Foundation, CREEES, CEAS, & the Department of Art and Art History
Directions
"Area Studies in Uniform: One Soldier's Story"
Col. Tucker B. Mansager
Commandant of the Defense Language Institute, and Commander of the Presidio of Monterey and Ord Military Community
Friday, May 5, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
"The Soviet Gulag and the Czechoslovak Experience (1918 – 1989)"
Luka Babka, Director of the Slavonic Library, Prague
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Co-sponsored by CREEES & Slavic Languages and Literatures
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature
& Film:
1968-present:
"Time Stands Still (Megall az ido)"
Directed by Peter Gother, Hungary, 1982
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
A film which evokes as much about the pop culture and youthful rebellion of Hungary
in the 60s as the political era which frames its story. We follow the exploits of two teenage brothers who use rock music
and blue suede fashion to resist the censorship and hypocrisy of their school, as well as the universally suffocating condition
of adolescence. The mood of political cynicism infused with nostalgia is brilliantly captured by the great cinematographer
Lajos Koltai.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
Silk Road Lecture Series at Stanford University presents:
"Oil and Gas, World Energy Stability, and the Silk Road World"
Piotr Moncarcz, Ph.D. P.E., Corporate Vice President, Exponent
Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:30 PM
Building 420 Room 041, Jordan Hall, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Co-sponsored by Silk Road Foundation, CREEES, CEAS & the Department of Art and Art History
Directions
"The Irony Curtain: Everyday Satirical Performance in Soviet Russia"
Seth B. Graham, Humanities Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford University
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature
& Film:
1968-present:
"Pigs (Psy)"
Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Poland, 1992
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
Pasikowski is known as the first commercially successful director in post-89 Poland, and Pigs was the first major action film
to break through the international competition from Hollywood, Western Europe and Asia that dominated Polish theaters in the
transition era. The title, literally “dogs,” refers to its protagonists: former secret police who have been demoted to ordinary
beat cops because of their questionable ethical behavior. They confront the corruption of the new order with a mixture of
espionage, blackmail, and automatic weapons.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature
& Film:
1968-present:
"Fighter"
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, U.S.A., 2000
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
Amir Bar-Lev follows two Czech Holocaust survivors, Jan Weiner and Arnost Lustig,
as they retrace the path Weiner took to escape Nazi persecution (from Prague to the former Yugoslavia and eventually the Italian countryside). The two men had radically
different experiences of the mid-20th century: Lustig survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald to become a successful novelist;
Weiner escaped to fight with the Allied Forces, was interned in postwar Czechoslovakia, and then emigrated to the U.S.
This fascinating documentary shows the incompatibility of two world views forged by these respective experiences, and
allows us to witness a breakdown in communication that most films would edit out or gloss over.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
"A Jewish Postal Romance: Secret Aid of American Jews to Soviet Jewry after World War II"
Michael Beizer, Hebrew University
Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 240 Room 201
Co-sponsored by CREEES & the History Department
"The State Department as an Institution and as a Career"
Jonathan Moore, Foreign Service Officer, US Department of State
2005-06 National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution
Friday, May 26, 2006 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature
& Film:
1968-present:
"Wounds (Ran)"
Directed by Srdjan Dragojevic Serbia, 2000
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
From the director of “Pretty Village, Pretty Flame” (1996), which chronicled two childhood friends
who find themselves on opposite sides of the Bosnian war, “Wounds” looks into the generation coming of age at the same time
in Milo_evi_’s Serbia. Two teenage boys, Pinki & Kraut, look for role models and heroes on the TV talk show “The Street Pulse”
(a real program in Belgrade) where gangsters are treated as rock stars. Part action movie, part political satire,
part morality tale, this film shows us the seductive side of violence and crime for teenagers with few other options.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
NEW LOCATION! Spring 2006 Central European Literature
& Film:
1968-present:
"Kontroll "
Directed by Nimród Antal, Hungary, 2003
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Building 60 Room 61H
Kontroll“ takes place entirely in the dystopic universe of the Budapest subway system, as we follow the trials
of Bulcsu and his band of brother ticket inspectors. A fascinating blend of styles and genres: “A Clockwork Orange” meets
“Brazil” meets “Scream” and course Luc Besson’s 1985 “Subway.” Along the way we learn a lot about how the citizens of
Budapest traveling without subway tickets resist fines and arrest, and abuse these beleaguered figures of minor authority.
This film series is being shown in conjunction with COMPLIT 245: Central European Literature & Film:
1968-present. All films will be introduced by the instructor, Jessie Labov, and followed by a short discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Directions
"Maturing Democracy: Ukraine after the Orange Revolution"
Lecture and Presentation of a Medal of Honor
on behalf of the President of Ukraine to
Robert Conquest
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
in recognition of his path-breaking scholarship on the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 in Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
Oleh Shamshur, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:00 pm
Building 200 Room 002
Reception to follow
Every Thursday at 6:00 pm!
Come to the Russian Table at Slavianskii Dom!!!
Free Dinner! Practice your Russian language skills! All levels welcome - from first year to native speaker
Slavianskii Dom - 650 Mayfield Drive -
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