Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 12:00pm
*New location: Bldg. 360, CCSRE Conf. Room
Open to the public / Lunch will be served
Emigration was the major social process that shaped Polish Jewish community after World War II. In 1945 Poland had just a small fraction of the once great Polish Jewry yet still a substantial group of some 250-300 thousand people. Had they stayed in Poland, they would have been the fourth largest Jewish community in the world. A generation later, in 1970, there remained a few or at most several thousand Jews. This decline was not due to high mortality or rapid assimilation but to emigration. In 1946, 1949-1950, 1956-1958 and 1968-...
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:00pm
NEW LOCATION: Encina Hall East, room 207 (Reuben Hills Conf. Room)
**RSVP closed -- email creeesinfo@stanford.edu or call (650) 725-6852 to inquire about attending**
Open to the public / Lunch will be served
The Soviet regime welcomed interethnic marriage as a concrete manifestation of the “friendship of peoples,” and Soviet social scientists spared no effort to show that such marriages were increasing from year to year. Little is known, however, about how members of mixed couples and families viewed their place in Soviet society. My lecture will investigate this question based on oral history interviews conducted in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
Adrienne Edgar is an...
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 4:15pm
Free and open to the public
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Russians lived together in the territory known as the Pale of Settlement, the region of Eastern Europe that now covers much of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States. Although these communities spoke different languages, followed distinct cultural habits, and practiced different religions, members of these communities did meet at markets and fairs. The stories that Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian writers, such as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Nikolai Gogol, and...
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 12:00pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Open to students only / Lunch will be served
Join CREEES MA alumnus Chris Jones via Skype from Baku, Azerbaijan, for a discussion on the Foreign Service, leveraging your area studies education, and more.
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 12:00pm
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Today, the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (ОUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) remains one of the most controversial fields of memory culture. The current research in Ukraine evokes opposing evaluations: on the one hand, they are celebrated as martyrs who devoted their lives to the struggle of Ukraine; on the other hand, they are portrayed as merciless gangsters and murderers of ordinary civilians. Although such a two-dimensional scheme does not consider numerous more nuanced...
Friday, November 2, 2012 - 12:00pm
*NEW LOCATION: CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Prof. Kollmann will speak on her new book, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia, a magisterial new account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in...
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Open to CREEES students, faculty, affiliates, and friends by invitation.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 3:30pm
Encina Hall East, Goldman Conference Room (E409)
A roundtable discussion
Co-sponsored by the CREEES, CDDRL, the Europe Center, and the Stanford Humanities Center
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 5:30pm
Bldg. 260 (Pigott Hall), room 113
Annual Koç Lecture
Co-sponsored by CREEES
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Encina Hall East, Goldman Conf. Room (4th floor)
Koç-Stanford Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by CREEES
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 6:00pm
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
This event is co-sponsored by CREEES
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 12:00pm
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Romanians are bored (plictisit). They describe themselves as bored all of the time. Yet, the boredom that bombards this post-Communist country does not attack only its leisure class. Contrary to the instincts of literary greats from Charles Dickens (1853) to David Foster Wallace (2011), boredom's most vulnerable victim is not the petit bourgeoisie but the homeless. Romania's troubled post-Communist economy, compounded by the global financial crisis, left a glut of unwanted laborers unemployed and...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 12:00pm
Encina Hall West, 208
RSVP closed -- email creeesinfo@stanford.edu or call (650) 725-6852 to inquire about attending
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Movement is vital to the creation of all manner of spaces, and historians often study it by analyzing the circulation of people, things, and information. But what happens to our account of space when we focus on the consequences of the production of movement, rather than on the impact of the thing moved? This talk seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the Russian Empire's 18th century reinvention along the lines of Enlightened states by examining how the Empire produced the mobility it needed at this crucial...
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 12:00pm
Encina Hall West, room 208
Open to Stanford undergraduate and graduate students only / Researchers and faculty by request / Lunch will be provided
Koulinka will lead a discussion of Russian media sources as seen through the prism of selected current events.
Natalia Koulinka is a recipient of a Scholar Rescue Fund fellowship grant from the Institute of International Education, and supported by more than a dozen Centers, Departments, and Programs in the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford....
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 5:15pm
Encina Hall West, 202
RSVP closed -- email creeesinfo@stanford.edu or call (650) 725-6852 to inquire about attending
Free and open to the public
Map to Encina Hall West
Talks include:
"Alexander Herzen and the Legacy of 1812"
John Randolph, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Alexander Herzen - the Man as Friend"
Victoria Frede,...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Studio Kazakfilm and Ardfilm production (2008). Produced and directed by Ardak Amirkulov (b. 1955).
The film is based on a story by Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928-2008) that was first filmed in 1968 by Kyrgyzfilm, directed then by Sergei Urusevsky (1908-1974). This is the second adaptation of the same story. Screenplay -- Ardak Amirkulov, Erlan Nurmuhambetov, and Erzhan...
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 12:00pm
Encina Hall West, room 208
Open to students only / Lunch will be served
Join CREEES MA alumnus Andrew Roth via Skype from Moscow, for a discussion on global journalism, leveraging your area studies education, and more.
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:00pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Talks include:
"A Journalist's Take"
Ilya Mouzykantskii, class of 2016, New York Times contributor (Moscow bureau)
"Faces of a Revolution?"
Patricia Young, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Sociology
"Masks of Opposition: Is Pussy Riot a Drag?"
Alice Underwood,...
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 4:00pm
Bldg. 200 (History), room 307
Although Czechoslovak politicians in exile frequently proclaimed ambitions for their country to mediate between the USSR and the Western powers toward the end of the Second World War, their deeds and utterances, imprinted in Soviet, Czech, and other archival materials, testify to something else. With their faith in the West fatally shaken by Munich 1938, which was only amplified by the U.S. failure to liberate Prague in May 1945, they relied on a Soviet security guarantee against any further German aggression and on Stalin's promises of non-interference in internal...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh with English subtitles
Studio Kazakfilm (2006). Produced and directed by Damir Manabai (b. 1946).
The film explores the enmity between two Turkic tribes, the Jaumit and the Adai, who occupied the land of Mangistau (now in western Kazakhstan) in the 18th century. The story relates what ends can come of blind fury and thirst for revenge. Children of opposing tribes -- the Montagues and Capulets...
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 8:30pm
Aquarius Theatre, 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto
UNAFF 2012 International Documentary Film Festival
Tickets $10 (Students free)
Director: Ewa Pieta, Miroslaw Grubek
Producer: Slawomir Grunberg, Miroslaw Grubek
The Red Button tells the dramatic story of Stanislaw Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war. On September 26th, 1983, Stanislaw Petrov was in charge of monitoring American missiles that could potentially be sent to Russia to start a nuclear war. Shortly after midnight, Petrov noticed a missile on...
Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 3:00pm
Aquarius Theatre, 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto
UNAFF 2012 International Documentary Film Festival
Tickets $10 (Students free)
Director: Jon Haukeland
Producer: C.R. Tredt
The film is an emotional search into the mechanism of oppression, based upon a documentary film from 1999 called Before the Bombs Fell. In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. But when their country was on the brink of war, a group of students from Pristina and Belgrade decided to meet for...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 8:00pm
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto
UNAFF 2012 International Documentary Film Festival
Tickets $10 (Students free)
Director/Producer: Svetlana Rezvushkina
Witnesses and participants of the dramatic events of Boris Pasternak’s life in France, Italy, the US, Sweden, and Russia discuss how the novel Doctor Zhivago was written, circulated, and published in the west despite it having been forbidden in the Soviet Union.
Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 5:30pm
Bldg. 260 (Pigott Hall), room 252
Free and open to the public / Refreshments will be served
Discussion of the place that our series Stanford Slavic Studies occupies in Slavistics today: the U.S. and continental perspective on our discipline.
Presenters include:
Lazar Fleishman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford
Stefano Garzonio, Professor, Pisa University; former president, Association of Italian Slavicists
Bianca Sulpasso, Professor, University of Macerata
...
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 4:15pm
Bldg. 260 (Pigott Hall), room 252
Free and open to the public
The lecture will concentrate on the history of Nikolai Demidov’s methods, on his major disagreements with Stanislavsky, and on the contemporary experience of working with the Demidov technique, as practiced at one of the top acting conservatories in the US.
Actor, director, and scholar Andrei Malaev-Babel (grandson of the Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel), is Associate Professor of Theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota, Florida, where he...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 3:15pm
Memorial Auditorium, Pigott Theater Main Stage
Open to Stanford students only
The master class will explore aspects of Mikhail Chekhov's Psychological Gesture Technique -- the imaginary space and time – as discussed and analyzed in Mr. Malaev-Babel’s "Guide to Psychological Gesture Technique" (Introduction to Michael Chekhov’s classic To The Actor, Routledge, 2002). The master class will explore aspects of Mikhail Chekhov's Psychological Gesture Technique -- the imaginary space and time – as discussed and analyzed in Mr. Malaev-Babel’s "Guide to Psychological...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 8:00pm
The Nitery Theater (Bldg. 590, adjacent to Old Union)
Free and open to the public. Very limited seating.
An original one-man show based on the stories of Isaac Babel.
Dir. Sarah Kane. Conceived for the stage, translated and performed by Andrei Malaev-Babel. Adapted by Roland Reed. Set and Costume Design by Alexander Okun. Lighting Design by Konstantin Tikhonov.
Actor, director, and scholar Andrei Malaev-Babel (grandson of the Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel), is Associate Professor of Theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota, Florida, where he also teaches for The New...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh with English subtitles
JSC Kazakhfilm (Shaken Aimanov) production.
“Sardar” [lit. ‘military leader’] is an epic historical spectacle set among landscapes as beautiful and awe-inspiring as those of any western. This is a historical-adventure drama set in the 18th century against the backdrop of Dzhungarian occupation. Two Kazakh...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh and Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Darezhan Omirbaev (b. 1958) and screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
"The Road" is a classic example of a road movie, where the protagonist's movement through space (the Kazakh steppes) allows him to review his life's journey....
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh with English subtitles
A Shaken Aimanov Kazakhfilm production, 2006.
A Lineman’s Notes (original Kazakh title: “Duniezharyk”, literally “The Shining World”) is a Kazakhstani drama film written, directed, and produced by Zhanabek Zhetiruov (b. 1958). It has been screened at numerous...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Shiza (aka The Recruiter). Kazakhfilm, STV Company, 2004.
Fifteen-year-old Mustafa (...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh and Russian with English subtitles
Kunya (aka The Holy Sin). Kazakhfilm, 2006.
Sholpan, who doesn’t want to share her husband’s love, asks Allah not to give them children. But as time goes by, their...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh with English subtitles
The Steppe Express. Kazakhfilm, 2005.
Somewhat of a Kazakh version of Pushkin's “The Stationmaster,” this...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Kazakh with English subtitles
Zhylama (Don't Cry). Kazakhfilm and Orken-film, 2002.
This is a documentary...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Vocal Parallels. Kazakhfilm, GALA-TV, Kinoprom, 2005.
This production portrays a surreal,...
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 12:00pm
Arrillaga Alumni Center (Fisher Conference Center, Lane Room)
Open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff ONLY -- closed to the public
In early January 2012, John Dunlop published The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin’s Rule, in which he compares the Moscow bombings to the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The Moscow bombings created a fear of terrorism that the Russians had not felt since the Stalin era during the 1930s.
The New York Review of Books recently featured Dunlop’s book in a review...
Friday, January 25, 2013 - 12:00pm
Landau Economics Bldg., SIEPR Conf. Room A
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Sergey Glebov is an Assistant Professor of History at Smith College. His research focuses on the intellectual, political, and cultural history of the Russian Empire, and on ideologies of imperial expansion, Russian nationalism, and Russia 's nationalities. He is also interested in the history of the Russian Empire in Siberia, the Far East, and North America, in particular in the interactions of native peoples and imperial structures, and in the history of...
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 12:00pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Nasim Fekrat is arguably Afghanistan’s most well-known blogger. He has run several workshops throughout Afghanistan, where he teaches blogging and online journalism to Afghans. His efforts and works were recognized in 2005 by RSF (Reporters without Borders) in France, and 2008 by ISF (Information Safety and Freedom) in Siena, Italy. He is also editor of the Afghan Lord blog and director of the Association of Afghan Blog Writers (AABW). His photography work has ...
Friday, January 18, 2013 - 12:00pm
Landau Economics Bldg., SIEPR Conf. Room A
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
When do contentious politics emerge in response to efforts to promote global environmental governance in new territories? The expansion of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) global forest products certification program within Russia provides an opportunity to investigate the conditions that contribute to either the acceptance of or the resistance to global governance. Why did Russian firms adopt forest certification more rapidly and with relatively fewer challenges in the...
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
By the time Theodor Herzl opened the first Zionist Congress in 1897, the movement he claimed to have founded was already more than two decades old. Herzl’s heroic debut on the world stage has cast a long shadow over the actual beginnings of Zionism in late imperial Russia, the place where Herzl found his most enthusiastic and loyal followers as well as his most serious and committed rivals. Absorbed into the history of Russian radicalism, the Zionist turn in Russian-Jewish politics has...
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 4:30pm
Wallenberg Theater, Wallenberg Hall
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 12:00pm
Lane History Corner (Bldg. 200), room 307
The most heated historical debates in post-Communist Poland have been provoked by two books: Neighbors from 2000 and Fear from 2008. The author of these books, Jan T. Gross, challenged the Poles’ view of themselves as solely innocent victims of German Nazism, showing that anti-Semitism could and did lead Poles to kill Jews, both during and after the war. In her presentation, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa scrutinizes the Polish reactions to these books, analyses the rhetoric in Gross’s writings and discusses his role as “mnemonic actor” in Poland....
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 4:15pm
RSVP required -- click here
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, CREEES, and the Mediterranean Studies Forum.
Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 12:00pm
Open to Stanford faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars only
RSVP required -- click here
Prior to the rise of public protests in Russia in December 2011, experts largely viewed Russian nationalism as the strongest ideological trend in the country. This perception significantly influences both the role that some nationalists came to play in the contemporary protest movement and the way other opposition activists relate to them. At the same time, in its efforts to counteract the protest movement,...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 12:00pm
Fisher Conference Center, Arrillaga Alumni Center
Free and open to the public
RSVP required by 3/7, 5pm
Prof. Marci Shore will speak on the topic of her recent book, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. The collapse of communism opened archives, illuminating the tragedy of twentieth-century Eastern Europe -- moments in which no decisions were innocent, in which all possible choices caused suffering. The Taste of Ashes is an account of the darker side of the revolutions of 1989,...
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 12:00pm
Lane History Corner (Bldg. 200), 307
Free and open to the public
RSVP required by 3/11, 5pm
Prof. Marci Shore will discuss her current project focusing on Husserl's phenomenology, and later Heidegger's (and Sartre's) existentialism as these philosophical currents took shape in Eastern Europe, primarily but not only in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The project is structured around philosophical personalities, exploring their encounters and their dialogues and relationships with one another. It's also...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 3:00pm
Free and open to the public
Grigore Pop-Eleches (Princeton)
Milada Vachudova (UNC Chapel Hill)
Jason Wittenberg (UC Berkeley)
Patricia Young (Stanford)
Kathryn Stoner (Stanford)
Until recently, democracies in new European Union members and aspirants were believed to be on their way to consolidation. Nonetheless, the recent financial crisis has had important political implications, with renewed fears of instability and even...
Monday, February 25, 2013 - 4:15pm
Lane History Corner (Bldg. 200), 307
Free and open to the public
This event is co-sponsored by CREEES
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lane History Corner (Bldg. 200), 307
Free and open to the public
This event is co-sponsored by CREEES
Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 8:00pm
Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), 105
This event is part of a conference called "The Future of Jewish Storytelling" and is open to the public
This event is co-sponsored by CREEES
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Soviet Yiddish writer Moyshe Kulbak's interwar novel The Zelmenyaners (just out in the English translation from Yale Univ. Press, 2013) describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime. The resultant intergenerational showdowns, including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, and electric trolley, are...
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Philippines Conference Room (Encina Hall Central, 3rd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Miller's talk will address the following questions: when does Ernest Gellner's definition of nationalism -- a political principle holding that the political and the national unit should be congruent -- break down? Was the 19th century the age of the nation-state or the age of empires and nationalism? How have the national and imperial been entangled in the history of Europe? How important were empires as nation-builders? And finally, can we classify empires according to their...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Koret-Taube Conference Center, Gunn Bldg. (SIEPR)
Free and open to the public
Extensive research points to a non-linear J-shaped link between state capacity and institutional quality on one hand, and political regimes on the other. It is claimed, in particular, that autocracies possess higher levels of state capacity and better institutions than transitional and hybrid regimes. However, this conjecture is not supported by empirical tests in post-Communist examples. Post-Communist autocracies do not demonstrate high levels of state capacity or good institutions (provision of property rights, contract enforcement,...
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Connelly will discuss his newest book, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 (Harvard, 2012). A synopsis follows:
In 1965, the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the most enormous,...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 7:00pm
Inaugural René Girard Lecture
Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin has been translated and acclaimed in German, Polish, French, and around the world. The René Girard Lectures bring thinkers to speak in Paris and Stanford in honor of the unique transatlantic intellectual career of Stanford Professor Emeritus René Girard.
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, Imitatio (a project of the Thiel Foundation), the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, and the Department of History....
Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
CISAC Conf. Room, Encina Hall Central (2nd floor)
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
We know that history plays a major role in socialization in Russia, and that political identities there are often defined in historical terms. This talk will analyze some re-interpretations of Russian and international history that have been employed in constructing the country's post-Soviet national identity. At the center of the new historical myth is the Great Patriotic War, both as a tragedy and a victory. However, the new narrative promoted by President Vladimir Putin...
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
Dezhina's talk is devoted to the very recent policy shifts in science and innovation policy in Russia that have occurred since the re-election of President Vladimir Putin, together with a historical overview of certain initiatives, aimed at giving listeners a sense of the succession and reasoning of the policy decisions.
The following aspects will receive special attention: changes in strategic documents and inter-agency organizations responsible for science and innovation...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Building 370, Room 370 (Serra Mall)
Free and open to the public
Inside (Yeralti, Dir. Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey, 2012)
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, this film follows Muharrem in contemporary Turkey as he is invited to a party where he is not welcome, and finds himself disgusted.
Q+A to follow with:
Burcu Karahan, Lecturer in Turkish Language and Literature, Stanford
Tom Roberts,...
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 9:30am - 5:30pm
Heyns Room, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Free and open to the public
Presenters include:
Andrew Barshay, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
“Walking Aporias: Japanese Gulag Veterans as Witnesses to History”
David Beecher, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
“In Search of a Usable Past: Memory and Forgetting in Post-Soviet Estonia”
John Connelly, Professor of...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Bldg. 260 (Pigott Hall), 113
I am Cuba / Soy Cuba / Я Куба (USSR/Cuba, 1964, 141 mins.)
Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Introduced by Tom Winterbottom, PhD candidate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
This event is sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) and co-sponsored by CREEES.
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Free and open to the public / Lunch will be served
This talk will discuss a particular angle of the 1998 relocation of Kazakhstan’s capital to Astana (previously known as Tselinograd and Aqmola) and the construction boom that followed, beginning around 2000. I will offer an ethnographic study of the labor of constructing a new cityscape and the process of state-building that the labor literally represents. The specific focus will be on the experiences of several individuals who moved to Astana to participate in its development and thus pursue...
