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The intellectual vitality of the Department of Slavonic Studies is particularly evident in the fields of Pre-Modern East Slavic culture; Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Slavonic Linguistics; Nationalism Studies; Film and Visual Culture; Memory Studies; and Russian Imperial and Soviet History. It is home to a dynamic annual programme of public lectures, research seminars, conferences and exhibitions. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Olga Plociennniczak; so389; rm983. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 135 talks in the archive. KURBAS: 1920s Avant-garde Theatre in Ukraine, The Ninth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening
History is a rehearsal of the future: How Russia’s past defines its perspectives and how it still can change
Inspiring Social Transformation - From Soviet Decay to a National Health Service for Ukraine
Dostoevsky, Sechenov and reflexes of the brain: to a stylistic genealogy of Notes from Underground
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy, Sincerity, and Propaganda
Tolstoy, Gender, and the Family
Special event for 100 years since the regaining of Polish independence
Russia's Libertine Century: Trediakovskii's 'Voyage to the Island of Love' and Cultural Change from Peter I to Catherine II
The Absolute Faker: The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Con Man in the Land of the Capitalists
Third Annual Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies - The Old Slavonic Digenis Akritis: Its Origin, ‘Formulaic Style,’ and Problems of Its EditionThe event is free but online registration is required. Register at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by 22 October, 2018
Third Annual Public Lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Slavonic Studies: A Twelfth-Century Slavonic Ekphrasis of Hippodrome Scenes in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv?
What Is Little Russian Literature?
Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in UkrainePlease register (free) via www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
Envisioning other Russias: artist talk and conversation with Victoria Lomasko
The Hughesovka Research Archive: A Donbass Symphony
Warsaw Rising MuseumPlease register at https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cambridge-polish-studies-7892179226
The Eight Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening: MaklenaPlease sign up for a free ticket at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maklena-the-8th-annual-cambridge-vsesvit-evening-tickets-45800135438
Studying Jews in Ukraine: Conceptual Challenges
The 8th Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening: Maklena
Revolution and Literature: Volodymyr Vynnychenko's Responses to the Ukrainian Revolution of 1918-1920
Brest-Litovsk and the Making of Modern Ukraine and Russia
Propaganda porcelain: The mirror of the Russian revolution and its consequences
Poland, Europe, Freedom: A Personal Reflection on the Last 40 Years
Polish Britain: Multilingualism and Diaspora Community
Cycles of Revolution in Ukraine
Before Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: Medieval Rus and a World of Diversity
Revolution and the Cult of the Leader
Multiculturalism in Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795
Ukraine and the Challenges of International Law - Annexation, Aggression, Cyber Warfare
Art for the new society: Russian art in the service of the Revolution
The Tenth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
The Tenth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
Feeling Revolution: Cinema and the Emancipation of the Soviet Senses
Reflections on the Russian Revolution
Inventing 'Heterosexuality' Through Ethnographic Knowledge Production: Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together in Ukraine(XIX-the beginning of XX century), Dr Maria Mayerchyk
Two Souls of Revolution, The Seventh Annual Cambridge Vsesvit EveningAdmission is free, but registration is required via www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
Post-Modern Narratives and Pre-Modern Devotion: the Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God among the Slavs, Dr Elena Boeck
NATO, Eastern Europe, and US PolicyPlease register via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/michta
Celebrating (or Not) the Centenary of the Russian Revolution
Crimea: Centre of Gravity in the Black SeaRegister for tickets at www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in dialogueThis event is free but please confirm your attendance by email
Feminist and queer in Russia: from art to scholarship
The Uniates and the Invention of Eastern Orthodoxy: Late Byzantine and early Ukrainian Advocates of Church Union in the Crossfire between Rome, Constantinople, and Moscow
The Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies Latini—Graeci—RutheniRegister at CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Dorota Masłowska: Polish Literary SensationPlease register for a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/maslowska
The Fifteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainain Studies: Ukraine in Transition
Poetry’s Role in Leningrad Samizdat
The Function of the Author in Samizdat Text Production
"Warsaw 44" ("miasto 44"): film screening and post screening discussion with the director, Jan KomasaRegistration via Eventbrite required
A Decadent Metaphysics: Fin-de-siècle Anxiety and the Cultural Contexts of Early Modernism
Meeting with Polish novelist Dorota Masłowska
Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and Today
Listening to the enemy: Radio surveillance and punishment in the early Cold War
After Brexit: The Future of Poles in the UK
The Ninth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
The Ninth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film
Leningrad Samizdat Poetry: Music for a Deaf Age
Jewish Life in Poland Today
Friends, Enemies, Kin: Constructing Kinship Webs and Situational Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe
House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars
Evolution of Ukrainian Media since Independence
CamCREES networking party
Sense of Place lecture series: "The Poetry of Gardens: Elegy, Ecology and the Cultural History of Dmitrii Likhachev"
Chekhov in the 21st century: A talk with Sergey Golomazov
People Power: Polish Solidarity and the Ukrainian Revolution
'Limits' conference hosted by ‘Approaching the Medieval’ postgraduate reading group
Sense of Place lecture series: "Spatial Icons in Byzantine and Russian Hierotopy"
Sense of Place lecture series: "Hagia Sophia: The Space In-between Heaven and Earth", Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford)
Sixth Annual Vsesvit Evening featuring "Odyn v kanoe"Please reserve your tickets via Eventbrite
Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place of Amnesia?Free admission
Places of Amnesia: Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely.Free admission
Kinoteka: Polish Film Club presents "Seksmisja" (Cambridge Science Festival, "Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies")Please reserve a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/seksmisja
Sense of Place lecture series: "The City Destroyed, the City Restored: Wilno (Vilnius) in the Mid-Seventeenth Century"
Olga Tokarczuk: Writing Polish IdentityPlease reserve a free ticket via http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/tokarczuk
The Fourteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, 'Media in a Time of Revolution and Information Warfare: Lessons from the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict' delivered by Nataliya Gumenyuk (Hromadske TV)The event is free and open to the public, but online registeration is required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-in-a-time-of-revolution-and-information-warfare-the-annual-cambridge-stasiuk-lecture-tickets-21550660606
A Visit with Poet Dmitry Vodennikov
Sense of Place lecture series: "Ways of seeing: Vladimir Korolenko’s Volga sketches"
Stalinist Subjectivity in the Georgian NKVD during the Great Terror
The 'Primary Chronicle' and the Origin of the Kyivan Rus' State
Sense of Place lecture series: "Sensing the Great ‘Yellow Space’ of Soviet Central Asia: Depictions of the Kara-Kum Desert in the Early 1930s"
Poland and the Future of the EurozoneApologies - at full capacity now
Poetry and Soviet literary politics in the early 1930s: Mandelstam’s Verses on Russian Poetry (1932)
Odesa in the times of revolution, war and reforms
A poetry reading by Polina Barskova
Sense of Place lecture series: "Representations of the Besieged Leningrad (1941—44)"
Are Poles at home in the UK? A Public Forum on Immigration
Sense of Place lecture series: "The Public Graphosphere"
The Eighth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmTickets are free, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eighth-annual-cambridge-festival-of-ukrainian-film-tickets-19041602947
The Eighth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian FilmTickets are free, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eighth-annual-cambridge-festival-of-ukrainian-film-tickets-19041602947
Sense of Place lecture series: “Postwar L'viv, Kaliningrad, Wrocław”
The Army of General Anders: Legions from a Lost WorldPlease reserve a free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-m-b-grabowski-symposium-norman-davies-on-anders-army-tickets-18687498812
Sense of Place lecture series: "The Arctic in the Russian Imagination"
Stalin and Myself: On Writing History and Writing MemoirsThe event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required at www.CamCREES.org
Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First CenturyVisit www.PolandUkraine.org to register for a free ticket via Eventbrite
Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia and UkraineFree admission, but places must be reserved in advance via Eventbrite.
Life on the Margins: Bruno Schulz and the Hasidic Kabbalah
The Fifth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit ReadingsThe Cambridge Vsesvit Readings are open to the public, but online registration is requested: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-cambridge-vsesvit-readings-tickets-16866198253
Adam Zagajewski: An Evening of PoetryPlease register for a free ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adam-zagajewski-an-evening-of-poetry-tickets-16054108270
Between Russia and Germany: Poland and the Shifting European OrderPlease register for free via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/between-russia-and-germany-poland-and-the-shifting-european-order-tickets-15468470612
Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney
Imagining the Ukrainian Body: Intersections of Nationalism and Sexuality in Contemporary Ukraine
The Fog of Memory: From the Great Fatherland War to Russia's Invasion of UkraineEntry is free and open to the public, but online registration is required: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/timothy-snyder-the-fog-of-memory-the-annual-cambridge-stasiuk-lecture-tickets-15304125050 More information: www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
Making News Soviet: Changing Visions of Soviet Information after Stalin, 1953-1970
Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous Homemaker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s
Listening Out: Cold War Radio and the Soviet AudienceFor more details about the Russian and Soviet mass culture seminars CamCREES is running this term, please visit: http://www.camcrees.group.cam.ac.uk/diary.html
Jewish Memory in Contemporary PolandPlease register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jewish-memory-in-contemporary-poland-tickets-15031827601 or www.facebook.com/CambridgePolishStudies
Investigating the Family in the post-Soviet Context
'Holocaust Anxiety in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint' - Brett Ashley Kaplan
'Unorthodox Memories: Baptist Accounts of the Soviet Past' - Miriam Dobson
The Third Annual Vsesvit Readings in Celebration of Literary Translation
'Socialist Women on the Gallows. Gender and Capital Punishment in Late Socialism' - Pavel Kolar
'Resistance and Gender' - Dr Olesya Khromeychuk
'Resistance and Performance', Dr John Freedman
'Reconceptualizing "Memorial Langscape"' - Zuzanna Dziuban
'"World Literature" in the Soviet Union: History and Stories' - Galin Tihanov
'Resistance and Rights' - Professor Benjamin Nathans
'True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Totalitarian Regimes' a public lecture by Anne Applebaum
'Making and Remaking History': A symposium on Mykhailo Hrushevsky'
The Eleventh Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, to be given by Oksana Zabuzhko
'Resistance and Conscience' - Dr Philip Boobbyer
'Resistance and Textuality' Professor Ann Komaromi
'Writing as Translation: Finding Jewish Voices in the Polish Language' Piotr Pazinski
'Resistance and New Media' - Dr Vlad Strukov
'The Stigmatization of dedicated Polish Women Rescuers during the Second World War' : Joanna Michlic
'Resistance and Nationalism' - Professor David Marples
'The Riddle of Space: The History of Russia's Geography': Tony Wood (New Left Review)
Second Zdanowich Annual Lecture: ‘Re-thinking the historical canon: the priorities and casualties of mainstream history'
Designs of Spring: On the Natural Form of Communism
Film Screening: 'Justice for Sergei'
Putin, Russia and the West, with documentary makers Brian Lapping and Norma Percy
New Russian Politics and Protests: A Roundtable on the Eve of the Presidential Election
Performing Memory: Current Trends in Contemporary Russian Documentary Theatre.
'THE DYING SWAN: SAVING THE RUSSIAN BALLET’
Russian Theatre and Russian Actors on the British Stage: A Conversation with Declan Donnellan (Artistic Director Cheek by Jowl, and Chekhov International Theatre Festival
When Nabokov writes badly... The question of quality, and laughter in the dark.
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