Current and Upcoming Events
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Lecture by Lisa Yountchi
Pushkin as a Young Sa'di: The Role of Persian Poetry in Pushkin's Work
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5 p.m.
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A
The presentation examines the central role of classic Persian poetry in Pushkin’s poetry and prose. In particular, Dr. Yountchi will identify how works like “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai,”“From Hafiz,” “To Fazil Khan” and Journey to Arzrum, taken together, reveal Pushkin’s consistent interest in Persian poetry, and connect to larger issues concerning Russia’s political and cultural role as a country between East and West. The final sections of this presentation will examine how Pushkin’s understanding of Persian poetry influenced later writers, and especially 20th century Soviet Tajik poets.
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Penn History Kruzhok:
Monday Feb. 27: Malte Rolf (Universität Hannover, Germany), “Imperial Biographies in Multiethnic Empires. The Habsburg and Russian Empires in Comparison”
(presentation followed by discussion)
209 College Hall, 6 p.m.
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in collaboration with the Middle East Center:
Russia and the Making of the Modern Hajj
a public lecture by Dr. Eileen Kane, Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College
March 14, 4:30 p.m.
College Hall, Room 318
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Penn History Kruzhok:
Wednesday Mar. 14: Eileen Kane (Connecticut College), "Russian Muslims and the Hajj to Mecca in the 19th Century"
4:30pm; location TBA (presentation followed by discussion; sponsored by the Middle East Center)
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‘Life or Death to the Fairytale?':
The Soviet Production Book for Children, 1920s-30s
A lecture by Alla Rosenfeld
Thursday, March 15, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
209 College Hall
Dr. Alla Rosenfeld is a Research Associate for European Evaluators in New York. From October 2006 to February 2009, Dr. Rosenfeld was Vice President and Senior Specialist for Russian Paintings at Sotheby’s, New York. Prior to joining Sotheby’s in 2006, she worked at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. She was Curator of Russian Art at the Zimmerli from 1992 to 2006, and also served as Director of the Zimmerli’s Russian Art Department from 2002 to 2006. During Dr. Rosenfeld’s tenure at the Zimmerli, she organized many exhibitions of Russian and Soviet art and was an editor, co-editor, and/or contributor to numerous publications, including Art of the Baltics (Rutgers University Press and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 2002); Defining Russian Graphic Arts, 1898–1934 (Rutgers University Press and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1999); From Gulag to Glasnost (Thames and Hudson, 1995). Dr. Rosenfeld’s independent curatorial projects include the traveling exhibition “A World of Stage” (2007), presented at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, among other venues. She has lectured widely on Russian art topics both in the U.S. and abroad at locations that include the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Dr. Rosenfeld has taught many courses at Rutgers during her tenure as Curator of Russian Art at the Zimmerli. Dr. Rosenfeld received her M.A. in the theory and history of art at the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1987, and her Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2003.
Co-sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Department of History.
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Vlad Todorov's new film project "Zincograph"
made it in the official selection of the Atelier at Cannes -- program
for presenting and marketing new film project, by rule 15 from around
the world. Unlike other festivals, for this particular program at Cannes
you do not apply, they monitor your performance at other film forums
and select you from all the participants of the main festivals from
around the world.
Vlad
Todorov won the Best Script Award of the Bulgarian National Film Awards
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Also, the film crew was officially selected to compete on the coproduction market with their second film project at the Sarajevo IFF and at the Rome IFF in October 2009, a major All-European event.
- "Silver St. George" for Best Director in Main Competition at the 30th Moscow IFF and the Prize for Best Film of the Russian Film Clubs Federation
- Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Bulgarian National Film Awards (2008)
- Official Selections in main competitions -- Toronto Discovery Program, Mar del Plata, Istanbul, Santa Barbara, Adelaide, Seoul, and numerous other international festivals
- Bulgaria's official nomination for foreign language Oscar, 2008
- Official Selection for the European Film Academy Awards, 2008
- Zift scored the biggest box-office for the last twenty years in Bulgaria and was sold for international distribution to Russia, Germany, Greece, the US Independent Film Chanel on Demand, and HBO
- Balkan Fund Award at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
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