Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of California, Berkeley

Slavic Department Colloquia

The Slavic Languages and Literatures Department sponsors a colloquia series that takes place during the academic year on selected Monday afternoons, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in room 219 Dwinelle Hall on the U.C. Berkeley campus.

If you live nearby and wish to be added to our colloquia e-mail list, contact Ellen Langer, issa@socrates.berkeley.edu . If you are not on our e-mail list, please call ahead (510) 642-2979) to confirm the colloquia schedule before attending.

• LIST OF SPRING 2000 EVENTS

Previous talks sponsored by the Slavic Department have included:

• Harai Golomb (Dept. of Theatre Art and Musicology, Tel-Aviv University): "Architecture of the Pseudo-Arbitrary: Planned Disorder in Chekhov's Plays"
• Michael Flier (Harvard University): "Putting the Tsar in his Place: The Golden Hall Throne Room of Ivan the Terrible"
• Olga Matich (Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, U.C. Berkeley): "The Russian Salome: Femme Fatale as Palimpsest"
• Joan Grossman (Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, U.C. Berkeley): "The Active Universe of Early Russian Modernism: Boecklin, Bergson, and Ivan Konevskoi"
• David Frick (Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, U.C. Berkeley):"'Foolish Rus' : On Polish Tolerance and Ruthenian Self-Hatred"
• Liza Knapp (Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, U.C. Berkeley): "Newtonian Law in the Dostoevskian Underground"
• G. A. Levinton (Russian Academy of Sciences, Ethnological Museum in St. Petersburg): "Russian Rituals of Passage: The Structure of the Life-Cycle"
• "Russia in 1913," Friday, April 12. Speakers: John Bowlt, Roman Timenchik and Yuri Tsivian.
• Andrei Zorin (Russian State University): "The Birth of a Concept: The Origins of the International Conspiracy Against Russia"
• Marcus Levitt (University of Southern California): "The Problem of Authorial Status in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Illegal Staging of Sumarokov's 'Sivan i Truvor' in 1770"
• Stephen Moeller-Sally (Stanford): "0000, or the Sign of the Subject in Gogol's Petersburg"
• Galya Diment (University of Washington): "Nabokov's Pnin in Nabokov's Pnin: Inside the Writer's Workshop"
• James Rice, University of Oregon -- Turgenev's Mother and the Birth of Russian Identity
• Thomas Seifrid, USC -- Tolstoy's Theater of Vision
• Irina Paperno (UCB) -- Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Russia
• Boris Groys (Koln) -- Ilya Kabakov and Soviet Culture asPrivate Museum (Co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic andEast European Studies and the History Dept.)
• Thomas Lahusen (Duke) -- The Sublime Object of Reeducation: Soviet and Chinese Experiences of "Remolding" and "Rebirth" through Labor (Cosponsored by the Townsend Center, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and the History Dept.)
• Patrick Seriot (Lausanne) The Paradoxical Origin of Structuralism in Inter-War Central Europe: Structure or Totality? (cosponsored by the History Dept. and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies)
• Alexander Zholkovsky, "Verter on Wheels: Rereading Mikhail Zoshchenko" (University of Southern California)
• Olga Vainshtein, "Fashioning Russian Women: Ideology and Clothes in the Soviet Union" (Moscow/University of Michigan)
• Veniamin Jofe and Irina Resnikova, "Documenting Stalinist Terror" (*Memorial*, St. Petersburg)

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