Slavic Studies Discussion Group

The Slavic Studies Discussion Group is an interdisciplinary body with faculty and graduate student membership from both CU-Boulder and nearby colleges and universities. The Group is funded by grants from the CU Center for the Arts and Humanities until 2007 and is now supported by GSLL. The Discussion Group typically meets once a month during the academic year to hear informal presentations from our faculty and faculty from the Denver area on their research followed by discussion, as well as presentations by visiting speakers from Russia and Europe. The Discussion Group seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among faculty and students. To that end, we plan meetings around speakers from varying fields with an interest in some aspect of Eastern Europe.

----Rima Salys,
Coordinator

• October 25, 2002 - Talk by Andrei Dmitriev, well-known Russian writer and scriptwriter for the acclaimed postmodernist film version of Nikolai Gogol’s Inspector General
• November 15, 2002 - Jennifer Wynot, Metro State College of Denver, “Russian Orthodox Monasteries’ Response to the Relic-Exposure Campaign, 1918-1922.”
• January 17, 2003 - Jim Symons, Theatre and Dance, “Staging The Cherry Orchard at CU: or, for Whom the String Snaps”
• February 28, 2003 - Zhenya Lianskaya, College of Music, “Music Belongs to No One: Alexander Knaifel’s Alice in Wonderland.”
• March 14, 2003 - Vida Taranovsky Johnson, Film Studies and Russian, Tufts University, “Tarkovsky’s ‘Moving’ Dialogue with Nature and Art in Andrei Rublev and Solaris.
• October 17th, 2003 - Catherine O’Neill, University of Denver, “The Pathless Woods and Lonely Shore: Byron’s Sea in Pushkin’s Poetry.”
• December 5th, 2003 - Elena Kostoglodova, CU-Boulder, “Among Bushmen: What to Do if You Are Not Clicking! (Politics in the Classroom: When Personal Clashes with Professional)
• February 20th, 2004 – Sophia Bogatyreva, literary scholar and editor, “Mandel’shtam: The Poet’s Fate and the Fate of His Verse.”
• March 11th, 2004 – Elena Stishova, senior editor, Iskusstvo kino and lecturer, State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow, “Russian Cinema - 2004.”
• April 23, 2004 -  Barbara Engel, History Department, CU-Boulder, “19^th c. Women’s Narratives in the Chancery Archives.”  
• October 8, 2004 -  Aleksandra Il’f, art historian and editor, Moscow, “Il’ia Il’f—Writer and Photographer.
• November 5, 2004 -  David Shneer, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, “When a Picture is Worth More Than a Thousand Words: Holocaust Photography in the Soviet Yiddish and Russian Press.”
• December 3, 2004 -  Birgit Beumers, University of Bristol, “Fathers and Sons in Recent Russian Films: The Return and Koktebel’.
• March 16, 2005 -  Film Screening of Oles’ Sanin’s Mamay (Ukraine, 2003) introduced by Vida Taranovsky Johnson, Tufts University
• October 31, 2005 – Elena Stishova, senior editor, Iskusstvo kino, “Recent Developments in Russian Cinema.”
• November 11, 2005 – Svetlana Adonyeva, Dept. of Theory of Literature and Folklore, St. Petersburg University, “Traditional Strategies of Behavior in Post-Soviet Rural Russia.”
• April 7, 2006 -  Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh, professional lunch with graduate students. 
• January 31st, 2007 -  Vida Johnson, Tafts University, "Serik Aprymov's The Hunter and Central Asian Cinema Today."
• April 3rd, 2007 -  Edith Clowes, University of Kansas, "Illusory Empire? Victor Pelevin's Chapaev and Post-Soviet Eurasian Identity."