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EVENTS
2012-2013
SPRING 2013
February 8-9
Workshop
The End of the Story? Problems and Perspectives of East European Literary Studies
Directors:Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Serguei Oushakine, Slavic Langauges and Literatures/Anthropology; and Andrzej Tymowski, American Council of Learned Societies
9 a.m. -
February 8: 219 Aaron Burr Hall
February 9: 216 Aaron Burr Hall
February 12
Protest Movements and Cultural Policies in Today's Russia
Artem Troitsky, Moscow State University
4:30 p.m.
Lewis Library, Room 138
 February 13
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Iakov Protazanov, Aelita, (1924)
 February 19
Kruzhok Meetings
Presenter: Franziska C. Exeler (History) Punishment, Retribution, Justice: Means and Meaning in Post-Occupation Soviet Belorussia
Discussant: Anna Krylova, IAS
February 20
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadii Kazanskii, Amphibian Man, (1962)
February 27
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Aleksandr Gintsburg, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, (1965)
March 5
Kruzhok Meetings
Presenter: Anne O'Donnell (History) Revolution as redistribution: legitimacy and dispossession in Bolshevik Russia.
Discussant: Mark Beissinger (Politics)
March 6
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Andrei Tarkovskii, Solaris, (1973)
 March 8-9
Complaints: Cultures of Grievance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
An interdisciplinary conference at
Princeton University
Organized by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
219 Aaron Burr Hall
March 11
Ballet and Politics in Russia: A Conversation with Svetlana Lunkina, Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet
Svetlana Lunkina, Bolshoi Theater Ballet
Participants: Simon Morrison (music); Tina Fehlandt (dance) and Serguei Ousakine (anthropology/Slavic)
Organized by the Lewis Center for the Arts, the Department of Music, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies.
March 13
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Leonid Gaidai, Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions, (1973)
March 26
Kruzhok Meetings
Presenter: Devin A. Fore (German) TBD
Discussant: Cate Reilly (CompLit)
March 27
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Andrei Tarkovskii, Stalker (Part I), (1979)
March 28
From Lubok to Novel: Mikhail Chulkov's The Comely Cook (1770)
Marcus Levitt, University of Southern California
4:30 p.m.
East Pyne 245
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
April 1
Freedom versus Money: Mass Media in Putin's Russia
Alexander Bogomolov, editor-in-chief of Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News)
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Lanuages and Literatures
April 3
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Andrei Tarkovskii, Stalker (Part II), (1979)
April 10
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Evgenii Iufit, short films, (1984 – 89)
April 16
Kruzhok Meetings
Presenter: Petre Petrov (Slavic) Modernist Apparitions, or When a Situation Presents Itself
Discussant: Cristina Florea (History)
April 17
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Vladimir Bortko, Heart of a Dog, (1988)
April 23
Kruzhok Meetings
Presenter: Petre Petrov (Slavic) on his progressing study of truth without meaning.
Discussant: Igor Rubinov (Anthropology)
April 24
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Aleksandr Sokurov, Days of Eclipse, (1988)
 April 30
Book Talk
The Black Russian
Vladimir Alexandrov (Yale University)
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Program for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Center for African America Studies
May 1
Slavic Film Series
Soviet Sci-Fi: Nostalgia for the Future
Aleksei Fedorchenko, First on the Moon (2005)
May 2
War and Democracy: How the Karabagh Conflict Destroyed Armenia's Transition
Arman Grigoryan, Lehigh University
Noon
202 Jones Hall
RSVP to matheney@princeton.edu. Space is limited.
Cosponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Studies
May 10-12, 2013
"Illusions Killed by Life": Afterlives of (Soviet) Constructivism
Princeton Conjunction 2013
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
May 10: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
May 11: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
May 12:
9 a.m.-8 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
FALL 2012
 Wednesday, September 19
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Ballets Russes” (2005, 118 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Tuesday, September 25
Kruzhok Meeting
Hydrogen Oxygenovich: The Construction of Scientific Russian
Michael Gordin, History
Discussant: Philip Gleissner, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Wednesday, September 26
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“The Red Shoes” (1948, 133 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Wednesday, October 3
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Children of Theater Street” (1977, 90 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
 Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Russian Politics: The Paradox of a Weak State
Marie Mendras, Sciences PO University and the National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, October 10
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Ballerina” (2009, 77 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Tuesday, October 16
Rana Dasgupta, Whitney J. Oates Fellow at Princeton
"Writing From Ignorance: a British-Indian Novelist in Bulgaria,"
4:30 pm
211 Dickinson
Cosponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, October 17
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Anyuta” (1982, 67 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Friday, October 19
Leningrad: From Archival Research to Art
Igor Vishnevetsky, Poet and Writer (Moscow)
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, October 23
Kruzhok Meeting
Waking the Sleeping and Akademgorodok – A Place and a Face of Soviet Post-Stalinist Science
Ksenia Tatarchenko, History of Science
Discussant: Petre Petrov, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Wednesday, October 24
"Three Visions of Empire in the last years of the Russian Empire"
6 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Wednesday, October 24
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Dancing for Mr B: 6 Balanchine Ballerinas (1989, 82 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Princeton School of Architecture
:A Round Table: Soviet Secret Cities during the Cold War
Jean-Louis Cohen,Institute of Fine Arts/New York University
,Michael Gordin. History
Xenia Vytuleva, Columbia University
5 p.m.
Location: TBA
Wednesday, November 7
Kruzhok Meeting
Cyborgs in the Kitchen: The Making of Socialist Consumers Inside the Soviet Home
Diana K. West, Architecture
Discussant: TBA
Wednesday, November 7
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Bauer’s Dying Swan” (1916, 45 min); “Les Noces” (2002, 30 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Tuesday, November 13
Russia through the Looking Glass: Mythologies and Realities of the Post-Soviet Civil Society
Irina Prokhorova, New Literary Observer Magazine and Publishing
4:30 p.m.
Aaron Burr Hall 216
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Wednesday, November 14
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
Alexei Ratmansky’s “Bolt” (2007, 145 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
Wednesday, November 28
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Giselle’s Mania” (1995, 100 min., dir. Alexei Uchitel)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
 Friday, November 30
Symposium on Russia and the Rule of Law
The Trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Bowl 16 Roberston Hall
1:30-6 p.m.
Panelists: Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University; Pavel Khodorkovsky, Institute of Modern Russia; Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Film: Khodorkovsky (2011). A public screening of the critically acclaimed documentary that chronicles Mikhail Khodorkovsky's transformation from a self-proclaimed socialist to a fully realized capitalist and recounts the stunning turn of events that made him one of the world's most famous political prisoners, followed by a discussion with writer/director Cyril Tuschi.
Chaired by Serguei Oushakine, Behrman Associate Professor in the Humanities, Departments of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.
The symposium is presented by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
Tuesday, December 4
Kruzhok Meeting
Laughter and the Phenomenology of Communist Window Shopping
Anna Katsnelson, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Discussant: Daniil Leiderman, Art and Archeology
Wednesday, December 5
Russian Film Series: Celluloid Swans: Russian Dance on Film
“Nureyev: A Documentary” (2000, 90 min.)
7 p.m.
010 East Pyne
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