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SUMMARY:Sense of Place lecture series: "The City Destroyed\, the City Rest
 ored: Wilno (Vilnius) in the Mid-Seventeenth Century" - David Frick (UC Be
 rkeley)
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DESCRIPTION:Wilno (Vilnius) the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Co
 mmonwealth\, home to Poles\, Lithuanians\, Germans\, Ruthenians\, Jews and
  Tartars\, was conquered\, heavily destroyed\, and occupied by Muscovite f
 orces from 8 August 1655 until early December 1661. The lecture will focus
  on the period of destruction and rebuilding in a city marked before and a
 fter the Muscovite occupation by “the cacophony of the bells\; the compe
 ting and intersecting religious and secular processions\; the variety of d
 ress\, grooming\, and speech patterns\, and the occasional\, more or less 
 gentle\, mutual derision\; the simultaneity of feasting and fasting\; the 
 sense of passing from neighbourhood to neighbourhood\; and above all the s
 ense that all this variety could be publicly expressed and in all corners 
 of the city.”\n\nDavid Frick is Professor of Slavic Languages and Litera
 tures at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he has been a mem
 ber of the faculty\, and frequently chair of Department\, since 1982. Trai
 ned in philology\, which remains one of the central tools in his work\, hi
 s research interests have gradually moved toward socio-religious history\,
  especially of the multi-confessional and multi-religious Polish-Lithuania
 n Commonwealth. He is the author of Polish Sacred Philology in the Reforma
 tion and the Counter Reformation: Chapters in the History of the Controver
 sies (1151-1632)\, Meletij Smotrys’kyj\, and Kith\, Kin\, & Neighbors: C
 ommunities & Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno.  He has also recent
 ly taken on literary translation\; the most recent effort resulted in the 
 complete Polish letters of Fryderyk Chopin\, to be published by the Polish
  National Fryderyk Chopin Institute (Warsaw). 
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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