May 30, 2003

Russian Studies
40th Anniversary Celebration: The Legends Return!
Come Celebrate With US

Princeton's Russian Studies Program is forty years old and on 30 May
2003, in connection with Annual Reunions, we will commemorate our
illustrious history and look into the future of Russia and the entire
Eurasian region.

Professor Emeritus Robert Tucker, Founding Director of the Program,
Professor Emeritus Stephen Cohen, long-time Program Director, and
Professor Emeritus Charles Townsend, three-decade Chairman of the Slavic

Department, will be on hand to offer their perspectives at a
roundtable. They will be joined by current Russian Studies faculty.

The roundtable will take place in Peyton Hall 145, from 3:30 to 5:30.
It will be followed by a reception, at 5 Ivy Lane, featuring food,
drink, and Slavic music.

All interested students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends are invited
to attend.

We invite those interested in the issues of temporality linking the
Middle Ages, modernity, colonialism, and postcoloniality to attend the
colloquium "Medieval Temporalities and Colonial Histories" on May 16.
The schedule, contact information, and list of speakers is below. There
is no registration fee, but if you intend to come please register to
receive the precirculated papers. If there are questions, contact
Kathleen Davis (kathleen@princeton.edu).

Medieval Temporalities and Colonial Histories
May 16, 2003
Princeton - Friend Center 006

Pre-circulated papers: speakers will briefly introduce their points. To
register to receive papers please contact ljclos@princeton.edu.


Session 1 - 10:00 am – noon

Presiding: Marina Brownlee, Princeton

Speakers:
David Lloyd, Scripps College
L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, UC Santa Barbara
Michael Wood, Princeton
Respondent: D. Vance Smith, Princeton

Session 2 - 1:30-3:30 pm

Presiding: William Chester Jordan, Princeton

Speakers:
Kathleen Biddick, Notre Dame
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Respondent: C. D. Blanton, Princeton

3:30 - Break for coffee

Roundtable - 4:00-6:00 pm

Presiding: Kathleen Davis, Princeton

Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester
Tim Watson, Princeton University
David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

6:00 - Wine and cheese reception


Sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies,
Department of English, Humanities Council, Program in Medieval Studies,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History, and the
Program in European Cultural Studies

Monday, May 5

8:00 p.m.

Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY IN PRINCETON!


The legendary Russian poet and songwriter,
MIKHAIL SCHERBAKOV!



M. Scherbakov is a unique and awesome phenomenon in both Russian poetry and Russian music of the past 20 years. He has been hailed as the supreme new voice in the tradition of "bardic songs" - the genre previously carried by such voices as Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, and Yulij Kim. Mr. Scherbakov is a poet of great lyrical capacity and an almost unbelievable flair for the language he writes and sings in. Monday, May 5, is a unique opportunity to hear him perform songs from his 12th album, "Yesli" (2003) as well as other albums, and answer questions about his life and work in Russia.  The concert will be held at Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture (near Prospect Gardens), and will start at 8 p.m., Monday, May 5. For tickets,  please call (248)417-5866. The tickets are $15, $12 for students and faculty. The number of seats is limited, so please hurry!

Thursday, May 1

4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

The Center of International Studies

Presents as part of its lecture series
on
Korea and the Great Powers

"Russia and the Koreas"

A lecture by

Alexander Lukin
Senior Lecturer,
Moscow State Institute of International
Relations,
Russian Foreign Ministry

Thursday, April 17, 2003
4:30 p.m.
101 Clio Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

presents a poetry reading of and conversation (in Russian) with

Evgeny Rein
Poet

Contemporary poet Evgeny Rein is, according to Joseph Brodsky,
metrically the most gifted Russian poet of the second half
of the 20th century.  Like Brodsky, Rein was a friend of the Acmeist
poet Anna Akhmatova.  Rein considers himself a
post-Acmeist poet.  His poetry, suppressed and censored in the Soviet
period, has been widely published in the years since
then.  He is a 2003 recipient of the prestigious Pushkin Prize for
literature.

~Refreshments following~

Copies of several of the poems he will read are available in the Slavic
Department Office, Clio Hall.  Please e-mail
caplito@princeton.edu if you would like a copy sent to you.

Tuesday, April 15, 2003
4:30 p.m.
101 Clio Hall

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

presents a poetry reading (in Russian) by

Olga Sedakova
(Moscow)

Olga Sedakova is one of Russia's leading poets and an insightful scholar of poetry and the creative process. She is deeply aware of tradition, but her poetic voice is distinctly individual.

~Refreshments Following~

Thursday, April 10, 2003

4:30 pm

Peyton Hall Auditorium

Lecture: Nancy Ries, Anthropology, Colgate University.

"How to Deal with the Russian State: Interactions of People and Power."

Respondents: Stephen Collier, Harriman Institute, Columbia; Olga Shevchenko, Harriman Institute, Columbia.

Nancy Ries is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. She is author of Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika (1997). Her more recent publications include “Honest Bandits and Warped People: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay,” in Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change, edited by Carol Greenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz and Kay Warren (2002). 

A reception will follow the talk.

This lecture series is sponsored by:
Department of Anthropology
Center of International Studies
Council on Regional Studies
Program for Russian Studies


For further information please contact:
eraikhel@princeton.edu
rtejani@princeton.edu
lcoleman@princeton.edu

Wednesday, April 9, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, WWS

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
    and the Program in Jewish Studies

present a lecture by

Gabriella Safran
Stanford University

Martyrdom and Revenge: S. An-sky on Terror and the Jewish Response to Violence

GABRIELLA SAFRAN is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire, which received both the National Jewish Book Award (East European Studies Division) and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures.  Currently Safran is a fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is completing a literary biography of S. An-sky.

S. AN-SKY (1863-1920), one of the most remarkable figures in Russian and Jewish history and literature, was a  populist activist, ethnographer, and author of fiction, poetry, and drama in Yiddish and Russian.  He is best known for his play, The Dybbuk.

Monday, March 31, 2003
4:30 p.m.

Whig Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in
Russian Studies

present a musical performance by

Anne Harley
Soprano
The Canadian soprano Anne Harley has performed throughout Canada, the USA and England, specializing in both contemporary and early music. Her involvement with early music performance has resulted in collaboration with such ensembles as Schola Cantorum of Boston and Concertino Armonico.  Her recording of today's program (with Oleg Timofeyev) can be heard on the Dorian label.

Oleg Timofeyev
Russian seven-string guitar
A native of Moscow, Oleg Timofeyev has been performing early music on original instruments of the plucked family (lute, guitar) since 1983. In 1989 this interest brought him to the U.S. where he now lives.  His recent projects include "Guitar in the Gulag: the works of M. Pavlov-Azancheev," and "Guitar Music by Georgian Composers," including the works of Niko Narimanidze, Tengiz Shavlokhashvili, and German Dzhaparidze.


Music of Russian Princesses from the Court of Catherine the Great

~Refreshments Following~

Slavic Languages and Literatures Film/Lectures

Film Wednesday, March 5 - lecture Thursday, March 6 -


“Fighter,” Arnošt Lustig film
Wednesday, March 5, 7:30 pm: Friend 008

(2001) USA, English/Czech [documentary] 91 m. Dir. Ami Bar-Lev. A
psychological adventure unfolds as two Czech
friends, Holocaust survivors, take a risky road trip into the past.
Together they revisit scenes of romance and humor, of
narrow escapes and life-or-death confrontations. But their journey
home becomes a contentious clash of personalities that
will ultimately take their friendship to the brink of collapse. “Not
surprisingly, it’s moving; but it’s also endlessly engaging,
uproariously funny at moments, informative, and eventually touching in
ways one might not have expected.” (LA New Times)
“It ponders in a refreshingly original
way unanswerable questions about memory, imagination, history and that
elusive thing we call truth.” (NY Times)

“Tales from a Scholar, Screenwriter, Storyteller, Survivor”
Arnošt Lustig, American University
Thursday, March 6, 4:30 pm: Friend 008

Professor of literature at American University, Arnošt Lustig is one
of the most celebrated Czech writers of our times. Born
in Prague in 1926 and a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and
Buchenwald, he has written numerous novels and short
stories as well as screenplays. Among his many works are Diamonds in
the Night (1962), A Prayer for Katerina
Horovitzova (1973), Dita Saxova (1975), Night and Hope (1976),
Darkness Casts No Shadow (1985), Indecent
Dreams (1988), Street of Lost Brothers (1990), The Unloved: From the
Diary of PerlaS. (1996) House of Returned Echoes (2001), and, most recently, Lovely
Green Eyes (2002). Winner of many awards,
among which are the National Jewish Book Award (twice) and the Czech
Republic's prestigious Karel Capek Award for
Literary Achievement. Recently, he co-starred as himself with his
Czech friend, Jan Wiener, in Amir Bar Lev's brilliant
documentary, “Fighter” (2001) in which the two survivors return to the
scenes of their quite different wartime experiences.

Wednesday, March 12, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Wallace 300

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Sponsored by:
Russian Studies Program

LECTURE

Pauline Jones Luong
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Yale University

“Radical Islam in Central Asia: Is the Threat Real or Imagined?”

Professor Pauline Jones Luong is one of the world’s leading experts on
the political economy of Central Asia. She is the author of many
articles on Central Asian politics and of the book Institutional Change
and Political Continuity in Central Asia (Cambridge 2002).

Tuesday, March 4, 2003

4:30 p.m.

Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building

Steven Zipperstein, a scholar of European Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries, will give a lecture titled "Past Revisited? Historical Reflections on Contemporary Anti-Semitism" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building.  Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History and co-director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University. He was the 2002 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  His books include "Imagining Russian Jewry:  Memory, History, Identity" and "Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism," which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994. The event is sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies, the Ronald O. Perelman Institute and the Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture.

40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

RUSSIAN STUDIES AT PRINCETON: PAST AND FUTURE

"RUSSIA AND EURASIA:

High Culture, Politics, and Foreign Affairs"

ROUNDTABLE

30 May 2003

3:30-5:30 pm

145 Peyton Hall

Participants

Professor Emeritus Robert Tucker, Founder and First Director of Russian Studies

Professor Emeritus Stephen Cohen, Long-Time Director of Russian Studies

Professor Emeritus Charles Townsend, Three-Decade Chairman of the Slavic Languages

and Literature Department

Caryl Emerson, Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and

Literatures and Comparative Literature

Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology

Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History and Current Director of Russian Studies

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

5 Ivy Lane

5:30-7:30 pm

Thursday, February 27, 2003

4:30 p.m.

Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber would like to invite you to attend a lecture by
Dr. Gordon Hahn, Adjunct Professor, Political Science Department, San
Jose State University.  His lecture, "Putin's Federative Reforms:
Kicking the Sleeping Dog of Minority Nationalism in Russia?", will be
held on February 27, 2003 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.

Dr. Hahn has taught Russian domestic and foreign policy at Boston,
American, and Stanford Universities.  He is author of Russia's
Revolution From Above, 1985-2000: Reform, Transition and Revolution in
the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime and has published
 in the scholarly journals Demokratizatsiya, East European
Constitutional Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs
(forthcoming), Problems of Post-Communism, Russian History/Histoire
Russe, The Russian Review, and numerous English and Russian
language newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.  Most recently Dr. Hahn

was weekly Political Analyst for an English-language Moscow newspaper,
The Russia Journal.  This spring, he will have articles published in the journals Demokratizatsiya and Post-Soviet Affairs.

Wednesday, February 26, 2003
4:30 p.m.
101 Clio Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The Department of Slavic Languages
 & Literatures

Presents a lecture by

Galin Tihanov
Lancaster University, U.K.

Seeking a "third way" for Soviet aesthetics: Eurasianism, Marxism,
Formalism

Galin Tihanov is a literary scholar and intellectual historian of
exceptional breadth.  He is the author of The Master and the
Slave: Lukacs, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time (Oxford University
Press, 2000) as well as numerous essays on Russian,
German, and French literature and philosophy.

Wednesday, February 26, 2003
12:00 noon
202 Jones Hall

Brown Bag Lunch Talk

Seteny Shami and Anthony Koliha, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

"Rethinking Eurasia: Perspectives from SSRC"

Tuesday, February 11, 2003
4:30 p.m.
101 Clio Hall ~reception following~

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Department of Slavic Languages
& Literatures

presents a lecture by

Evgeny Dobrenko
Professor, University of Nottingham, England

"O politicheskoi ekonomii sotsialisticheskogo realizma"

Evgeny Dobrenko is a highly respected scholar of Soviet and post-Soviet
Russian literature and culture. He is the author of
several acclaimed books, including The Making of the State Writer:
Social and Aesthetic Origins of the Soviet Literary Culture
(2001) and The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts
of the Reception of Soviet Literature (1997), both
published by Stanford University Press; and co-author and/or co-editor
of 9 others. Two other monographs on Soviet culture
are about to come out. Current book projects focus on (1) socialist
realism and (2) Stalinist cinema. Topics of articles and
book chapters include poets (Dmitry Prigov), prose writers (Isaac Babel,
Boris Triforov), childhood (Sotsrealism i mir
detstva”), Stalin as a writer, the historical novel, Sots-art, cinema
(the films of Grigorii Alexandrov; Soviet musical comedies),
and the literature of the Zhdanov era.

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
SPRING 2003 Lectures

Lada Panova
Thursday, February 6, 2002, 4:30 p.m. 101 Clio Hall
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
“Razbor ‘Nashedshego podkovu’ Osipa Mandel’shtama”

Evgeny Dobrenko
Tuesday, Feb.11, 2003, 4:30, 101 Clio Hall
University of Nottingham, England
"O politicheskoi ekonomii sotsialisticheskogo realizma"

Galin Tihanov
Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 4:30 p.m., 101 Clio Hall
Lancaster University, U.K.
“Seeking a "third way" for Soviet aesthetics: Eurasianism, Marxism,
Formalism”

Svetlana Boym
March 4, 6,11
Gauss lectures

Michael Flier
Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:00 p.m. room tba
Harvard
“Asymmetry, Hierarchy, and Ambiguity in the Linguistic Differentiation
of East Slavic”

Anne Harley, soprano
Oleg Timofeyev, Russian seven-string guitar
Monday, March 31, 2003 4:30, room tba
MUSIC OF RUSSIAN PRINCESSES FROM THE COURT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT

Gabriella Safran
Wednesday, April 9, 2003. 4:30 p.m., room tba
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
“Martyrdom and Revenge: S. An-sky on Terror and the Jewish Response to
Violence”

Olga Sedakova
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:30 p.m. room tba
poet, scholar
Poetry Reading

Christian Gauss Seminar in Criticism

Invites you to attend a lecture series by

Svetlana Boym
Harvard University

Svetlana Boym is Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Literature,
Professor of Comparative Literature, and a member of the Committee on
the History and Theory of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design,
at Harvard University.

She is the author of The Future of Nostalgia (2001), Kosmos:
Remembrances of the Future (with the photographer Adam Bartos, 2001),
Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1994), Death in
Quotation Marks (1991) and of the forthcoming novel Ninochka (2003).
This lecture series forms part of a new book project.

The Other Freedom

March 4 The Other Freedom
(Tocqueville, Pushkin, Berlin and Axmatova)
4:30 106 McCormick Hall Reception to follow

March 6 From Estrangement to the Banality of Evil
(Victor Shklovsky and Hannah Arendt)
4:30 106 McCormick Hall Reception to follow

March 11 Freedom of Expression and Russian-American Art
4:30 106 McCormick Hall Reception to follow

Thursday, February 6, 2003
4:30 p.m.
101 Clio Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The Department of Slavic Languages
& Literatures

presents a lecture in Russian by

Lada Panova
Researcher, Institute of Russian Language, Department of Stylistics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

“Razbor ‘Nashedshego podkova’ Osipa Mandel’shtama”

Lada Panova is a specialist on Russian poetry of the early twentieth
century. The author of numerous articles and a book
(forthcoming) on Osip Mandel'shtam, she is presently a visiting scholar
at the University of Southern California.

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

4:30 p.m.

Bowl 1, Roberston Hall

Dmitri V. Trenin, deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, will
speak on “Putin as Partner: Russian Foreign Policy in Transition” on
Tuesday, February 4, at 4:30 p.m., in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.

One of Moscow’s most influential policy specialists, Trenin served in
the USSR/Russian armed forces from 1972 to 1993, working variously as a
liaison officer in Germany (1978–83), as a staff member of the USSR
delegation to U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva (1985–91), and
finally as a senior lecturer at the Military Institute (1986–93). Trenin
was a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 1993
and at the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Science from
1993 to 1997.

At the Carnegie Moscow Center, Trenin cochairs the Foreign and Security
Policy Program, which promotes scholarship on a broad range of security
issues, including Russia’s relations with its immediate neighbors and
the future direction of its associations with the U.S. He is the author
or editor of numerous publications, including The End of Eurasia: Russia
on the Border between Geopolitics and Globalization (2001), Russia and
European Security Institutions: Entering the 21st Century (2000), and
Russia’s China Problem (1998).

Trenin’s lecture is the first in the second series of lectures on
“Contemporary Issues in International Relations,” presented by the
Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. It is cosponsored by the
Center of International Studies, the Program in Russian Studies, and the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Valera & Natasha Cherkashin 
"Favorite Portraits of People in the World"


Exhibition opening: Thursday, December 5th, 2002, 6 - 9 PM at Fleet 
Bank, Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Ave & 34th St.

Exhibition runs through December 5-24, 2002, Mon-Fri 10 AM - 3 PM

The Russian-American Cultural Center (RACC) is pleased to announce the 
opening of its new exhibition "Favorite Portraits of People in the 
World" by Valera and Natasha Cherkashin. These internationally recognized 
artists, photographers, performers, and lecturers from Moscow are no strangers 
to RACC. 

Curator Regina Khidekel has included the works of the Cherkashins 
in some of the most famous shows of Russian and American artists that have 
taken place in the USA, including "It's the Real Thing: Soviet and 
Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art" (1998) and "DUMBO Double Deuce" (2001). 
Last year in November 2001, in an effort to strengthen the spirit of 
our city, the Russian-American Cultural Center reopened its gallery in 
Lower Manhattan next to the wounded, still-smoking area of the World Trade 
Center with Valera & Natasha Cherkashin's exhibit "Mirages of Empires". 
It is significant that the new exhibit will take place at the Empire 
State Building's Fleet Bank location. It touches upon two major themes of the 
Cherkashin's works: "Mirages of Empires" (1995), which illustrates 
through architectural landmarks the way national monuments have reflected 
history and shaped the culture of great nations, and "Favorite Portraits of People 
in the World" (1998), which centers around vanishing icons - monetary units of 
old Europe. Decorated with portraits of great personalities, these national 
currencies are truly masterpieces of art. Now out of business, these 
antiquated bank notes are used to create new art objects with the goal 
of restoring some their value. The installation covers the transition from 
old monetary units as it blends into the use of the single European 
faceless currency, the Euro. 
The purpose of working with historical, controversial issues is to 
create a nostalgic and romantic commemoration of epochs that have passed and 
empires that have vanished. While living in Moscow, the Cherkashins have strong 
connectictions with New York, constantly contributing new works to 
their New York Streets series (1994-2002).Some of these works (1996)including 
World Trade Center will be presented at the exhibition. These images have a 
strong documentary flavor achieved by the use of specially treated materials: 
photos and newspapers, which have been manipulated, crushed, drained, painted 
gold, or silver, and overlaid with images. 

The works of Valera & Natasha Cherkashin are included in museum 
collections: 
The State Russian Museum; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of 
Fine Art Boston; The Museum of Fine Art Santa Fe; The Los Angeles County 
Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; The Zimmerly Art Museum; and some 
other museums and private collections in the US and Europe. 

Russian-American Cultural Center 55 John Street, 14th floor 
Contact: Regina Khidekel, Ph.D., Director and Curator, at 212-744-5168 
or khidart@aol.com; http://www.russianamericanculture.com 
This exhibition is made possible with the public funds from the New 
York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City 
Department of Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to Mr. Peter T. Gemignani, Fleet 
Bank.

Wednesday,
December 4, 2002
4:30 p.m.
106 Woolworth Center

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Department of
Music

present a lecture by

Vadim Prokhorov
Author, Composer

“Russian Folk Songs and the Issue of Russian National Music”

Vadim Prokhorov is the author of Russian Folk Songs: Musical Genres and
History. His choral compositions and
arrangements of Russian folk songs have been published by Oxford
University Press, Hal Leonard and Musica Russica. He has
also written extensively about Russian music, including numerous
articles in the Encyclopedia Americana.

~Reception following~

Wednesday, November 13, 2002 

4:30 p.m. 

105 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 

presents a lecture and slideshow in Russian by 

Dr. Alexander Badialov 

Architectural Historian 

“The Art and Culture of Medieval Russia” 

Dr. Alexander Badialov is a leading architectural historian and award-winning photographer who holds a doctorate from the prestigious St. Petersburg Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Dr. Badialov’s lecture on medieval Russian culture as represented through its visual images – icons, frescos, folk art, secular and non-secular architecture – is based on his own original slides. 

Friday, November 8, 2002
McCosh 64
7:00 p.m.

FILM & DISCUSSION

Sponsored by:
PROGRAM IN RUSSIAN STUDIES,
PROGRAM IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

"BLACK RUSSIANS"
A documentary about international intrigue, romance, revolution, and
shattered dreams, produced and directed by Kara Lynch.

Kara Lynch has lived and worked in New York as a film/video, visual and
performance artist since 1990. She will introduce the film and lead a
discussion after the showing.

Tuesday, 5 November 2002
12 noon

Room 210 Dickinson Hall

Princeton University
Department of History

Modern Europe Colloquium

"Writing Cultural History: The Challenge of Russia"

ORLANDO FIGES
Birkbeck College, University of London

Lunch will be provided

Tuesday, November 5, 2002 
4:30 p.m. 
101 Clio Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 

presents a lecture by 

Tomas Glanc 
Charles University, Czech Republic 

“Roman Jakobson in Brno (1935): The Controversial Lectures on Theory of Literature and Russian Formalism” 

Presently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, Tomas Glanc is the director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies at Charles University and a member of the (recently reconstituted) Committee of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He has written extensively on twentieth-century Russian literature and culture, on topics ranging from Malevich to Nabokov to Ilya Kabakov. 

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

12:15 p.m.

300 Wallace Hall

Research Program in Development Studies will sponsor the seminar "After
the Big Bang: Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post
Communist Societies" on Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 12:15 in 300
Wallace Hall. The guest speaker will be - Karla Hoff, Research
Economist, World Bank. Lunch will be offered.

Wednesday, October 16, 2002 
4:30 p.m. 
101 Clio Hall

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES and 
THE PROGRAM IN JEWISH STUDIES 

presents a lecture by 

Victoria Khiterer 
Shklar Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 

The Danger of Covert Anti-Semitism: A Review of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's book "Two Hundred Years Together" 

The Nobel Prize winner Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described in his new book "Two Hundred Years Together" (Moscow 2001) Christian-Jewish relations in the Russian empire. The famous writer attempted to prepare a scholarly monograph. The lecture will illuminate why the topic of the Christian-Jewish relations became so important for Solzhenitsyn, how he described these relations in his new book, what goals the author tried to accomplish. 

Tuesday, October 8, 2002
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
106 McCormick Hall

Department of Art and Archaeology Lecture

Asen Kirin
Department of Art History, University of Georgia

"The Edifices of the New Justinian: Catherine the Great Regaining Byzantium"

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 
4:30 p.m. 
008 Friend Center

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES and 
THE COUNCIL OF THE HUMANITIES 

presents a Eberhard L. Faber, Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture 

Mikhail Epstein 

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural History and Russian Literature 
Emory University 

“From Post- to Proto-: On Possible Paradigmatic Shifts in the Humanities” 

Trained in Moscow during the final years of the Old (Communist) Regime, Epstein is among the most imaginative and
prolific academic emigres of his generation. In addition to hundreds of articles (translated into15 languages), Epstein
has authored four books in English over the past decade: After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and
Contemporary Russian Culture (1995); Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (1999), 
Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (1999), and, most recently, Cries
in the New Wilderness (fiction, 2002), on banned religious sects, culled from the files of the Moscow Institute of
Atheism. 

A packet of excerpts from these works by Epstein is available to any interested party; request from Office Manager for
Slavic, Christine Alito, cpalito@princeton.edu.