Slavic Languages Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Slavic Department Open House

-- submitted by Michael E. Cohen (mcohen@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Viking Age Iceland: Sagas, History and Archeology"

The lecture will take place at the Jean Delacour Auditorium of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. (213) 763- DINO www.nhm.org.

To make a reservation or for further information, please call the Education Division at (213) 763-3534.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Dr. D. B. Johnson's lecture on "Captain Mayne Reid and Vladimir Nabokov's Discovery of America"

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

The event is organized by the Slavic Graduate Student Association and funded by the Program Activities Board Mini Fund.

-- submitted by Justina Bandol (jbandol@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact JBANDOL@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

Mimicry in Doctor Zhivago

-- submitted by Inna Gergel (@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact slavic@humnet.ucla.edu

What women want: praying for miracles in premodern Russia

Wednesday, May 15, at 3.00 pm, in Kinsey 184.

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

EVE LEVIN's areas of expertise are Russia before c. 1750 and the Orthodox Slavs of the Balkans in the pre-modern period. Her research interests focus on popular and religious culture in the context of the State and society, in particular Eastern Orthodox religious law and observance, folk belief and practice, women, sexuality, health and medicine. Her current book project concerns the experience of illness and healing in Russia in the early- modern period. She is author of "Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700" and editor and translator of "Women in Russian History" by Natalia Pushkareva. Dr. Levin is also Editor of "The Russian Review", a leading academic journal in the field of Russian studies.

This event is funded by the UCLA GSA and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies.

-- submitted by justina bandol (jbandol@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jbandol@humnet.ucla.edu

Illuminated Folklorist Conference

The Illuminated Folklorist:

Recovering the Folklore of the Past

Royce Hall, Room 314

May 17-19, 2002

Friday, May 17

1:30 Registration

2:00-2:10 Welcome

Andrea Fitzgerald Jones, Conference Co-Chair

2:10-2:30 Opening Remarks

Timothy Tangherlini, UCLA

Session 1 (Robert Alan Gurval, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University, "The Making of a Märchen from Medieval Matter"

3:30-3:45 Break

Session 2 (H.A. Kelly, Moderator)

3:45-4:15 Carol Branch, Los Angeles, "Searching Through My Mother’s Medicine Cabinet: Lore and Lacunae in African- American Tradition."

4:15-5:15 Juliette Wood, University of Cardiff, "Witches and Warlocks: Early Images of Witchcraft and Magic Working and Modern Welsh Folktales"

5:30 Reception

Saturday, May 18

Session 3 (Muriel C. McClendon, Moderator)

9:00-10:00 Peter Tokofsky, UCLA, "Re-Constructing a Pre- Modern Carnival"

10:00-10:30 Martin Walsh, University of Michigan, "Horned Beasts, Angry Saints, Dead Revelers: Festival Fatalities in Twelfth-Century Scotland"

10:30-10:45 Break

Session 4 (Christine Goldberg, Moderator)

10:45-11:15 Nicole Archambeau, UCLA, "The Influence of Pragmatic Literacy on Early Troubadour Lyric"

11:15-11:45 Maria Teresa Agozzino, University of California- Berkeley, "Winlogee a Wanton Woman?: A Trans-Disciplinary Interpretation of the Modena Archivolt"

11:45-1:00 Lunch

Session 5 (Peter Nabokov, Moderator)

1:00-2:00 Barre Toelken, Utah State University, "Reflections on a Stone Mouse (and Other Icons of Folk Tradition)"

2:00-2:15 Break

Session 6 (Vyacheslav V. Ivanov, Moderator)

2:15-2:45 Laura Wilhelm, West Hollywood, CA, "The Fable as Folklore: Is It or Isn’t It?"

2:45-3:15 Jesse Byock, UCLA, "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Saga of the Volsungs: Modern Bard or Author?"

3:15-3:30 Break

Session 7 (James Massengale, Moderator)

3:30-4:00 Thomas DuBois, University of Wisconsin- Madison, "Ludic or Laudatory? The Role of Illuminations in the Program of Flatyjarbók"

Session 8 (Timothy Tangherlini, Moderator)

4:00-5:00 Recovering Medieval Folklore: Creating an Encyclopedia of Folklore of the Past—A Panel Discussion with John McNamara and John Lindow

Sunday, May 19

Session 9 (Zoe Borovsky, Moderator)

10:30-11:30 John Lindow, University of California- Berkeley, "Giants and Trolls in Myth and in Life"

11:30-11:45 Break

Session 10 (Christopher C. Baswell, Moderator)

11:45-12:15 John McNamara, University of Houston, "Legends of William Wallace, Medieval and Modern"

12:15-12:45 Elena Ivanova, Boston College, "Materializing the Marvelous in Wonder Tales and Miracle Tales: Two Tale Collections from Medieval Spain"

12:45-1:45 Catered Lunch, Royce 306

Session 11 (Hossein Ziai, Moderator)

1:45-2:15 Yona Sabar, UCLA, "The Multiple Faces of Eve: The Characterization of Women in the Folk Literature of a Near Eastern Jewish Community"

2:15-2:30 Break

Session 12 (Joseph F. Nagy, Moderator)

2:30-3:30 Recovering the Folklore of the Past: A Roundtable Retrospective. This panel discussion will include all speakers in a discussion of the conference proceedings.

3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks

Victoria Simmons, Conference Co-Chair

-- submitted by Dorothy Kim (dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu)

SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Where: Dodd 146 When: June 6, 2002, 9:30-10:50 am

Any interested faculty members as well as graduate students are welcome. Seats are limited, so RSVP to Ji-Soo Kim at jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Ji-Soo Kim (jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu

Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function

"Sexual Differentiation of Brain Structure and Function"

-- submitted by Ji-Soo Kim (jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jsinla@humnet.ucla.edu