Slavic Languages Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

"Hungary in the European Union and in NATO"

kindly invites you to the lecture of

*Mr. FERENC BOESENBACHER*,

Consul General of the Republic of Hungary about

*HUNGARY in the EUROPEAN UNION*

*and in the NATO*

on FRIDAY, October 28, 3pm

at 1648 Hershey Hall (south-east corner of the building)

For more information contact Johanna Domokos

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Birnbaum Lecture

The lecture is titled "An Electronic Workstation for the Study of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts" and will take place Wednesday, February 1 2006 at 3 p.m. in 1648 Hershey Hall. This lecture is open to the public.

For more information on Professor Birnbaum's work, please visit his website: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/

For more information about this event, please contact Heidi Arbisi-Kelm, UCLA Slavic Department, at (310) 825- 3856 or heidi@humnet.ucla.edu.

Please visit our website: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

Everything You Always Wanted to know about Ancient Egypt: The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

Place: Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Building Free entrance, parking in Sunset parking (structure 4) for $ 7

Program: 1.00 – 1.30 Willeke Wendrich (NELC, UCLA) Introduction: the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology 1.30 – 2.00 Alain Zivie (Director, CNRS Egyptology, Paris, France) The rediscovery of the New Kingdom "Nobles Tombs" in the Saqqara Necropolis 2.00 – 2.30 John Baines (Professor, Egyptology, Oxford University, Great Britain) How did different social groups communicate with one another in ancient Egypt? 2.30 - 3.00 Joris F. Borghouts (Professor, Egyptology, Leiden University, the Netherlands) The evil character of Apopis: magic, ritual, and Book of the Dead 3.30 – 4.00 Janet Johnson (Professor, Egyptology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) Philae, Nubia and Isis; Rome, Meroe and Christianity 4.00 – 4.30 Fayza Haikal (Professor, Egyptology, American University in Cairo, Egypt) Ethno-Egyptology and Cultural Continuity in Egypt 4.30 – 5.00 Brief notes by Jacco Dieleman, Willem Hovestreydt, and Noel Schweitzer

5.00pm Reception offered by the Egypt Exploration Organization Southern California and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

-- submitted by Diane AbuGheida (abugheid@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

“The Saint and the Hagiographer in Search of Each Other: The Holy Fool as Cultural Symbol, Literary Character and Human Being”

Advance registration is not required. Please sign in at the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first- come, first-served basis. Parking permits may be purchased for $8 from any UCLA Parking Services kiosk. Be sure to mention that you are here to attend "Prof. Ivanov's lecture in Bunch Hall." You will be directed to park in the nearest available lot.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Xth UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium: “Byzantium on the West Coast”

9:30 Registration

10:00 Welcoming remarks: Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)

Session I: Art History Chair: Susan Downey (UCLA)

10:15 – 10:45 Anne McClanan (Portland State University) “‘Paradise Lost’: Reconsidering the Place of the Natural World in Ravenna’s Mosaics”

10:45 – 11:15 Kriszta Kotsis (University of Puget Sound) “Dressing the Part: Considering the Garments of the Byzantine Empress”

11:15 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 12:00 Break

Session II: Art History Chair: Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute, London and Getty Scholars Program)

12:00 – 12:30 Kathleen Maxwell (Santa Clara University) “Innovation in Text and Image in cod. Paris. Graec. 54 – A Response to the Circumstances of its Commission?”

12:30 – 12:45 Christina Stancioiu (UCLA) “Imagining Sacred Places: El Greco and The View of Mount Sinai”

Cover: Peribleptos Church, Ohrid. 1294/5. Image of St. George. Michael Astrapas and Euthychios, painters. 12:45 – 1:00 Galina Tirnanic (J. Paul Getty Museum) “‘Holy Image, Hallowed Ground’: Mount Sinai at the Getty, November 2006-March 2007”

1:00 – 1:15 Discussion

1:15-2:15 Lunch (Prepaid reservation required)

Session III: History Chair: Barisa Krekic (UCLA)

2:15 – 2:45 George Dennis (Loyola Marymount University) “The Byzantine Military Mind”

2:45 – 3:15 John Langdon (Marlboro School, and UCLA) “Imperial Princesses and Consorts of the Epoch of the Thirteenth-Century Anatolian Exile”

3:15 – 3:30 Discussion

3:30 – 4:00 Break

Session IV: History Chair: Dorothy Abrahamse (California State University, Long Beach)

4:00 – 4:30 Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) “Byzantine Dioscurides”

4:30 – 4:45 Srdjan Rajkovic (UCLA) “Byzantium between the Ottomans and Europe according to the Four Historians of the Fall”

4:45 – 5:00 Maria Pantelia (UC Irvine) “Byzantium and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae”

5:00 – 5:15 Discussion 5:15 – 5:30 Concluding Remarks: Claudia Rapp (UCLA)

5:30 – 6:30 Reception on the Loggia

This program is sponsored by The UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. The UCLA Departments of Art History, Classics, History, and Slavic Languages & Literatures. The Hellenic University Club.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Advance registration required. Seating is limited; seats will be available on a first-come first-served basis. To register, complete the form in this brochure or contact the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at (310)825- 1880 or cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. There is no admission fee.

Lunch—Advance Reservation Required! Lunch is available for conference participants for $15 per person. Make check payable to UC Regents. Reservations, with payment, must be received by April 3rd. Participants who do not attend the conference lunch may purchase lunch from one of the vendors on campus. A list of campus restaurants will be available at the conference.

Parking Campus parking permits may be purchased for $8 on the day of the event from a UCLA Parking Services kisok. Tell the attendant that you are here to attend the “Byzantinists’ Colloquium” in Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

2006 Russian Poetry Night

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

7 p.m.

Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Refreshments will be provided.

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

Russian Literature Workshop

Date: Friday, April 28 Time: 9:00 am to 6 pm Place: 1648 Hershey Hall

Event Schedule:

WORKSHOP ON 20th and 21st CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Friday, April 28, 2006, 1648 Hershey Hall

Session I (9:00 – 12:00): Chair: Alexander Zholkovsky

• Introductory Remarks (R. Vroon)

• Sally Pratt (USC): Khlebnikov, an Icon Not Made By Human Hands, and a Poem Not Spoken by Human Tongues • Susanna Lim (UCLA): East Asia and Russian Symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok)> • Tom Seifrid (USC): Bulgakov, the Mystery Genre, and Urban Space in Soviet Culture of the 1920s and 1930s. • Nora Ryan (UCLA): Architects and the Avant-Garde: Communal Housing Designs of the 1920s • Alexander Dolinin (Wiconsin): The Problem of Opaque Allusions in Pasternak's Early Poetry. • John Narins (UCLA): Literary Design and Extra- literary Conduct (the Case of N.M. Oleinikov).”

Lunch: 12-1

Session II: 1:00 – 3:30 Chair : Alexander Dolinin • Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA): Vasilii Grossman’s Life and Fate: From Notes of a Military Correspondant to Epic Novel • Natal’ia Tikhonova UCLA): The social, psychological and philosophical space in von Sternberg's screen version of Crime and Punishment • John Bowlt (USC): Pavel Filonov and the Concept of 'Universal Flowering' • Stanislav Shvabrin (UCLA): 'Et j'en sais d'immortels qui sont de purs sanglots...' (Alfred de Musset in Vladimir Nabokov's Eulogy of Vladislav Khodasevich) • Lazar Fleishman (Stanford): Above the Barriers: Leonid Pasternak and the Arguments on Jewish Art in early 20th century.

3:30-4:00 Break

Session III: 4:00:- 6:00 Chair: Ronald Vroon • Alexander Zholkovsky (USC): Issues in Russian Infinitive Poetry with Special Reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Prosypat'sia na rassvete' • David MacFadyen (UCLA): The Problems of Defining Cultural Prominence in Second-World Modernity: On-Line Music • Lada Panova (Russian Language Institute, Moscow): "Egypt in Russian Silver Age Literature" • Henryk Baran (SUNY Albany): Problems in the History of the Protocols of Zion

The format of the workshop is very short papers (15 minutes) to allow maximum time for discussion and debate.

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

Russian Literature Workshop

Date: Friday, April 28 Time: 9:00 am to 6 pm Place: 1648 Hershey Hall

Event Schedule:

WORKSHOP ON 20th and 21st CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Friday, April 28, 2006, 1648 Hershey Hall

Session I (9:00 – 12:00): Chair: Alexander Zholkovsky

• Introductory Remarks (R. Vroon)

• Sally Pratt (USC): Khlebnikov, an Icon Not Made By Human Hands, and a Poem Not Spoken by Human Tongues • Susanna Lim (UCLA): East Asia and Russian Symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok)> • Tom Seifrid (USC): Bulgakov, the Mystery Genre, and Urban Space in Soviet Culture of the 1920s and 1930s. • Nora Ryan (UCLA): Architects and the Avant-Garde: Communal Housing Designs of the 1920s • Alexander Dolinin (Wiconsin): The Problem of Opaque Allusions in Pasternak's Early Poetry. • John Narins (UCLA): Literary Design and Extra- literary Conduct (the Case of N.M. Oleinikov).”

Lunch: 12-1

Session II: 1:00 – 3:30 Chair : Alexander Dolinin • Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA): Vasilii Grossman’s Life and Fate: From Notes of a Military Correspondant to Epic Novel • Natal’ia Tikhonova UCLA): The social, psychological and philosophical space in von Sternberg's screen version of Crime and Punishment • John Bowlt (USC): Pavel Filonov and the Concept of 'Universal Flowering' • Stanislav Shvabrin (UCLA): 'Et j'en sais d'immortels qui sont de purs sanglots...' (Alfred de Musset in Vladimir Nabokov's Eulogy of Vladislav Khodasevich) • Lazar Fleishman (Stanford): Above the Barriers: Leonid Pasternak and the Arguments on Jewish Art in early 20th century.

3:30-4:00 Break

Session III: 4:00:- 6:00 Chair: Ronald Vroon • Alexander Zholkovsky (USC): Issues in Russian Infinitive Poetry with Special Reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Prosypat'sia na rassvete' • David MacFadyen (UCLA): The Problems of Defining Cultural Prominence in Second-World Modernity: On-Line Music • Lada Panova (Russian Language Institute, Moscow): "Egypt in Russian Silver Age Literature" • Henryk Baran (SUNY Albany): Problems in the History of the Protocols of Zion

The format of the workshop is very short papers (15 minutes) to allow maximum time for discussion and debate.

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

The Hungarian Language: Past and Present

Invited Speakers

Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) Marcel den Dikken (CUNY) Marianne Bakro-Nagy (U Szeged & Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Anna Fenyvesi (U Szeged) Laszlo Hunyadi (U Debrecen):

Information is made available at http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/hun06 Contact: {jdomokos, kracht}@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Kathryn Roberts (kroberts@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jdomokos@humnet.ucla.edu; kracht@humnet.ucla.edu

Public Lecture: Anna Fenyvesi (University of Szeged): The many faces of Hungarian: Sociolinguistic findings on contact varieties

May 5, 1648 Hershey Hall, 2pm.

-- submitted by (kroberts@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact jdomokos@humnet.ucla.edu; kracht@humnet.ucla.edu

A Forum on Anna Akhmatova

A FORUM ON ANNA AKHMATOVA

honoring the publication of two major works on the poet’s life and works:

Roman Timenchik Anna Akhmatova v 1960-e gody (Moscow, 2006)

David MacFadyen and Natal’ia Kraineva (eds.) “Ia vsem proshchenie daruiu…”: Akhmatovskii sbornik (Moscow, 2006)

PARTICIPANTS Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA) David MacFadyen (UCLA) Lada Panova (USC) Roman Timenchik (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 3:00 – 5:30 pm 1301 Rolfe Hall

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

The Penal Colony as an Image of Imperial Nation in Dostoevsky's "Notes from the House of the Dead"

A free public lecture by:

Edyta Bojanowska, Harvard University

"The Penal Colony as an Image of Imperial Nation in Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the House of the Dead'"

Wednesday, January 17, 2006 3:00 p.m. 311 Humanities Building

-- submitted by Heidi Arbisi-Kelm (heidi@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/index.html

Medieval Slavic Workshop

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Testing in the Proficiency-oriented Curriculum: Proficiency, Achievement and Prochievement Testing

Benjamin Rifkin will explain the differences among three approaches to testing (proficiency, achievement, and prochievement) with illustrations from well-known texts in American English. He will then lead workshop participants through a process of test development in accordance with principles of prochievement testing on the assumption of commonly understood concepts and texts for participants from diverse language backgrounds.

Participants will explore testing at several levels, in different modalities, and for a range of purposes, and will consider the information that testing provides instructors as well as the impact of testing on the curriculum at the course level and beyond.

Benjamin Rifkin is Professor of Russian and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. His most recent publication, coauthored with Olga Kagan and Anna Yatsenko, is Advanced Russian through History (Yale University Press), a book for advanced students of Russian.

-- submitted by Susan Bauckus (bauckus@humanities.ucla.edu)