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Fall 2017

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September 5, 6-8 pm, Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor, HW.
Poetry of the Moscow Lianozovo Group: Vsevolod Nekrasov & Igor Kholin (with Ugly Duckling Presse). Poetry reading and book talk by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich.
 
October 5, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Tomas Venclova. Poetry reading, in Lithuanian and Russian with English translations (with the Consulate General of Lithuania in New York).
 
October 12, 6-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Narine Abgaryan. A reading and book talk, in Russian with English translations. Moderated by Margarit Ordukhanyan.
 
October 17, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Alexei Tsvetkov. Poetry reading and conversation on literature and politics.
 
October 22, 1-8 pm. Ida K. Lang Recital Hall.
7th Russian-Israeli Diaspora Film Festival (with Russian-American Cultural Center, RACC).
 
October 24, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Varlam Shalamov. Several of My Lives. A documentary by Alexandra Sviridova and Andrei Erastov, with Q&A.

November 2, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Yelena Minyonok. "Who Was My Grandmother? How Collective Memory Works in Folklore."
 
October 26, 4:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
They Chose Freedom and Nemtsov, two documentaries by Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., with Q&A.
 
November 7, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Barbara Harshav. “Translation: Text, Subtext, Context.” A lecture and translation reading (with the Division of Hebrew and Hebraic Studies).
 
November 14, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Tadeusz Dabrowski. Posts. A poetry reading (in Polish, with English translations).
 
November 16, 5:30-7:30 pm, Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Screening Center, Room 706 (Library), Hunter East Building.
 Irina Prokhorova. A talk on book publishing, freedom of speech and the humanities in Russia from 1990s to the present.

November 30, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Elizabeth K. Beaujour. "People Who Live in Glass Houses: Transparency in Early Soviet Architecture."
 
December 7, 5:30-7:30 pm, Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Screening Center, Room 706 (Library), Hunter East Building.
Perm-36: Reflexion. A documentary by Sergei Kachkin, followed by Q&A (via Skype).

Spring 2017

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 February 15, 4-8 pm, B126 HW. 
Poets in New York: On City, Language, Diaspora (ed. by Yakov Klots). A bilingual poetry reading and book talk by Tomas Venclova, Vasyl Makhno, Anna Frajlich, Polina Barskova, Marina Temkina, Irina Mashinski, Julia Trubikhina, Anna Halberstadt, Bakhyt Kenzheev, Helga Olshvang and Andrei Gritsman.
 
March 9, 4:30-7:30 pm, B126 HW.
The Excursionist (dir. Audrius Juzenas; Lithuania, 2014). Film screening and Q&A with the filmmaker via Skype (with the Consulate General of Lithuania in New York).
 
March 23, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126 HW.
Emil Dreitser. “To Laugh or Not to Laugh: Soviet Satire, Condoned and Condemned.” A lecture and conversation on Soviet humor.
 
March 26, 1-9 pm, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall.
Art Film Festival (with Russian-American Cultural Center).
 
April 6, 7-9 pm, 210 HW.
Eugene Ostashevsky. The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi and The Fire Horse: Children’s Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelshtam and Daniil Kharms. A poetry reading and double book talk.
 
April 27, 5:30-7:30 pm, B126, HW.
Vladimir Aristov. What We Saw from This Mountain. A bilingual poetry reading and book talk with the author and translators, Julia Trubikhina-Kunina and Betsy Hulick (with Ugly Duckling Presse).
 
April 28, 6-8 pm, Green Cafe, HW.
Semyon Khanin and the ORBITA Group (Riga, Latvia). Poetry reading and performance. In Russian, with English translations by Charles Bernstein, Maya Vinokour, and Anton Tenser.  
 
May 4, 5-7 pm, B126, HW.
Moving Lyrics: First International Student Festival of Short Essay Films. Curated by Olga and Basil Lvoff, Viktor Ilyukhin and Ruslan Poddubtsev.

Fall 2016

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September 30, B126, HW.
“100 Years of Making Things Strange: A Centennial of Viktor Shklovsky’s Ostranenie.” Lectures by Alexandra Berlina and Basil Lvoff, moderated by Bradley Gorski and Irina Denischenko.
 
October 7, 4-6 pm, B126, HW.
"Yeltsin Center: The First Presidential Museum and Center in Russia." Presentations by Dina Sorokina and Boris Minaev.
 
October 21, 4-6 pm, B126, HW.
In Pursuit of the Siberian Shaman. A documentary by Anya Bernstein, with Q&A.
 
October 26, 3:30-5 pm, B126, HW.
Narine Abgaryan. Semyon Andreich. A reading, in Russian with English translation by Cara Ehlenfeldt, with Q&A moderated by Olga Bukhina and Margarit Ordukhanyan.
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October 28, 4-6 pm, B126, HW.
Polina Barskova. Written in the Dark. Poetry reading and book talk on the Siege of Leningrad, in Russian with English translations by Catherine Ciepiela.
 
November 4, 4-6 pm, B126, HW.
Maria Stepanova. Poetry reading, in Russian with English translations by Sibelan Forrester.
 
November 6, 6-9 pm, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall.
Psoy Korolenko. Bed and Sofa, or Love for Three (1927, dir. Abram Room). A cine-performance, fusing silent film and free style poetry.

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