Hungarian actor Levente Molnár (from the 2016 Golden Globe Award-winning and 2016 Oscar nominated film Son of Saul) in discussion with theatre and film director Gábor Tompa Improvised musical associations by performer-composer Daniel Szabo Levente Molnár is a London-based actor and a member of the Hungarian Theatre of Kolozsvár. Apart from Son of Saul...
Department of Germanic Languages' First Annual Graduate Student Conference We are thrilled to invite you to the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages' First Annual Graduate Student Conference Conflicts of Interest: The Productive Power of Confrontation on Friday, April 29th in Royce 314. **If you plan to join us for the catered lunch that day, kindly RSVP...
This conference promotes original research using the languages students study. It gives them an opportunity to integrate their language skills with focused investigations into the histories, politics, literatures, and cultures of the regions where those languages are spoken. It also allows students to meet peers from other colleges (or the same school) who have similar...
Václav Havel’s idea of “living in truth” has become a catchphrase in discussions of East Central European dissent during the Cold War. Behind this seemingly straightforward idea, however, were many competing ideas about what the truth is, how we can know it, and how we might “live in” it. Havel’s own accounts of “living in...
“Venetian Life” (1920) is one of Osip Mandelstam’s most complex and semantically rich poems, and many a study has been devoted to deciphering this text. Even at the most rudimentary level, however, this project is far from complete. The principal genre-determining subtext of the poem has gone unnoticed, as have other intertextual connections. An examination...
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites you to its annual
MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT A SHOWCASE OF DIVERSITY & TALENT WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019 6 – 8 PM 314 ROYCE HALL Information regarding tryouts is forthcoming. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
.The 2018 Michael Henry Heim Annual Memorial Lecture in Translation and Translation Studies, entitled “Self-Translation and Its Discontents; Or: The Translational Work Lost in the Theory of Bilingualism”, will be given by Dr. Sigrid Weigel (Professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Literature Research in Berlin). Members of the community are welcome to attend. RSVP...
Join us for the 21st Annual Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies Saturday, April 28, 2018 UCLA Humanities Building For more information or to participate, visit http://slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/.
MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT A SHOWCASE OF DIVERSITY & TALENT WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018 6 – 8 PM 314 ROYCE HALL Information regarding tryouts is forthcoming. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Plot: Adam returns home to Poland to spend Christmas Eve with his family and share the news that his child will soon be born. He is not the first member of the family to leave the country to earn a living. His father ‘lost his health as a construction worker in Germany’, and his uncle worked...
November 7 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 325 Botany, 618 Charles E Young Dr S Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map 4:00-4:40 Yana Demeshko | Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures “A fifth estate: the contribution of urban and rural youth to Russia’s political landscape” Leanna Kramer | Global Studies | Slavic, East European and Eurasian...
Event Flier ILLUSTRATING RUSSIA COMIC ART, GRAPHIC NARRATIVES & BOOK ILLUSTRATION Friday, November 16th, 2018 7pm - 9pm 362 Royce Hall, UCLA Dr. Julia Alekseyeva is a scholar, writer and illustrator who specializes in non-fiction graphic narratives, comic journalism, and memoir. Her non-fiction historical memoir entitled Soviet Daughter (2017) won the 2017 VLA Diversity Award and...
Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! Wednesday, December 05, 2018 06:30pm – 08:00pm 314 Royce Hall Our talented students will perform holiday songs, poems, skits, and more to ring in the holiday season. More details forthcoming.
December 5 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm 314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Ct Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map Join us for an evening of cultural festivities as we celebrate the holiday season! Wednesday, December 05, 2018 06:30pm – 08:00pm 314 Royce Hall Our talented students will perform holiday songs, poems, skits, and more to ring in the...
Revisiting the Laurentian and Hypatian Chronicle Accounts About the Failed Raid of Prince Igor Svjatoslavic in 1185. A talk by Professor Harvey Goldblatt, Yale University Harvey Goldblatt is a Professor of Medieval Slavic Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of numerous publications on general problems...