The Polish Citizenship Model and the Hegemony of the Intelligentsia: A Historical and Critical Perspective

Lecture | September 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Speaker: Tomasz Zarycki, Associate Professor and Director of Institute for Social Studies, Warsaw University

Sponsor: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)

This talk will present an attempt at developing a comparative perspective on the Polish model of citizenship with special emphasis on the 19th century as its formative period. As will be argued, the ideal Polish citizen, according to the model that became dominant at the turn of the century and institutionalized in 1918, could be imagined as an intelligentsia member. The persistence of this...   More >

Trauma's Red Carpet Memories: The Sarajevo Film Festival

Colloquium | September 12 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Antje Postema, Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

The first lecture in the Fall 2016 Slavic Colloquium Series.

ISEEES Fall Reception

Reception | September 15 | 4-6 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Sponsor: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)

Please join us at the annual ISEEES Fall Reception with opening remarks from the Director, Professor John Connelly (History).

Uncertain Citizenship: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1917-1947

Lecture | September 16 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Speaker: Sarah Cramsey, Professor of Practice in Jewish Studies, Tulane University

Sponsor: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)

Usually, the creation of the State of Israel is cast as a story that begins with Herzl and is brought to fulfillment by the Holocaust. My book project, Uncertain Citizenship: Jewish Belonging and the “Ethnic Revolution” in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1917-1947, considers the resolution of questions concerning Jewish political belonging and citizenship in Europe not as the endpoint of a...   More >

Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917

Lecture | September 16 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Khatchig Mouradian, Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor, California State University, Fresno

Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program

The assault on and the humanitarian resistance waged by Armenian deportees in Ottoman Syria during World War I provide insight into key aspects of the Armenian Genocide. In this lecture, Mouradian presents a multifaceted account of developments in Aleppo and across the network of concentration camps in Ras ul-Ain and along the banks of the Euphrates River, from Meskeneh to Der Zor. Drawing upon...   More >

The Short Films of Hayoun Kwon: Imaginary Lines

Film - Series | September 21 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Join Hayoun Kwon as she showcases her short films in person

Tickets required:$7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission For tickets please visit us at bampfa.org/tickets.

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Hayoun Kwon Selects: Animated Short Films

Film - Series | September 22 | 7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

We invited Hayoun Kwon to curate a program of animated films that deal with social or political issues. Her selection, including the work of Norman McLaren, Jirí Trnka, and Jan Svankmajer, focuses on films that deal with conflict on all scales, from an escalating fight between neighbors and the delicate balance between a group of men to the destructive hand of the state and of the constant...   More >

Tickets required:$7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission For tickets please visit us at bampfa.org/tickets.

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Mark Morris Selects: The Wishing Tree (Natris khe/Drevo zhelanii) (The Magic Tree) (Tengiz Abuladze USSR, 1977) | CINEMA MON AMOUR: MARK MORRIS

Film - Feature | September 25 | 4 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The textures of folk legend and striking visual allegory permeate The Wishing Tree, an episodic pastorale set in a pre-revolutionary Georgian village and spanning four seasons in the lives of various village characters.

Tickets required:$7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission For tickets please visit us at bampfa.org/tickets.

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The Multiplicity of Narrative: The Hidden Subjectivities of Anna Karenina

Colloquium | September 26 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Brian Egdorf, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

The second lecture in the Fall 2016 Slavic Colloquium Series.

Recent Developments in Turkey and the Turkish Armenian Community

Lecture | September 26 | 8-10 p.m. | Khachaturian Armenian Community Center, Saroyan Hall

Location: 825 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA 94132

Speaker: Garo Paylan, MP of the People’s Democratic Party in Turkey's Grand National Assembly; Member of the Parliamentary Committees on Constitution and Budget

Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program, Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, SF Chapter

Garo Paylan is a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party and is a deputy representing the 3rd district of Istanbul in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly. Mr Paylan is also a member of Turkey’s Armenian community and has long been a human rights activist and has fought for the resolution of Kurdish and Armenian issues. Prior to joining the parliament, Mr. Paylan served in the central...   More >

From Central Europe to Hollywood and Back Again: The Role of Central European Creative Artists in the Movie Industry and their Anti-Fascist Propaganda Activities

Lecture | September 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall | Note change in date

Featured Speaker: Dr. Georg Kastner, Dean, Andrássy Universität Budapest

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)

Electionization and Postsocialist Subjectivity: Women Running for Parliamentary Elections in Mongolia

Lecture | September 27 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

Speaker: Manduhai Buyandelger, Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Laura Nelson, Gender & Women's Studies, UC Berkeley and Chair, Center for Korean Studies

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative

Female politicians in Mongolia navigate multiple conflicting discourses as to what it means to be a proper female politician. They perform new selves: intellectual, morally appropriate, and uniquely feminine in a dialectical relation to the culture of consumption and media; by doing so, negotiate their identities and intervene thereby in the transformation of the politics of gender in Mongolia.

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Lecture | September 27 | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Speaker: Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia

Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program

Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian was born in 1956 in Hrazdan, Armenia.

At the age of 22 he graduated from Moscow State Institute of
International Relations.

In 1988 he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR National Academy of Sciences.

Foreign Minister Nalbandian started his diplomatic career in 1978 in Lebanon. He...   More >

The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution: Townsend Book Chat with Steven Lee

Lecture | September 28 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities

Professor of English Steven Lee’s book makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde."

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Thunder from the Steppes: New Perspectives on the Mongol Empire

Conference/Symposium | September 29 – 30, 2016 every day | 180 Doe Library

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative

Thursday, September 29, 4pm - 6 pm Keynote Address
Friday, September 30, 9 am - 6 pm

The Mongol Empire orients history between Asia and Europe, ancient and modern, rural and urban, settled and nomadic, scientific and faith-based, and soteriological and aristocratic worlds. This conference invites new research on the Mongol empire...   More >

Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews During WW II

Lecture | September 29 | 6:30-8 p.m. |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: Center for Jewish Studies, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)

Pavel Lion and Anna Shternshis bring to life “lost” Yiddish songs of World War II in this concert and lecture program. Collected by Moshe Beregovsky and other scientists of the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture, these previously unknown Yiddish songs were confiscated and hidden by the Soviet government in 1949, and have only recently come to light. This program features the performance and...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

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Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II

Lecture | September 29 | 6:30-9 p.m. |  Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsor: Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Free and open to the public. Reception at 6:30 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko and historian Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) bring to life “lost” Yiddish songs of World War II in this concert and lecture program. Collected by Moshe Beregovsky and other scientists of the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture, these previously unknown Yiddish songs were confiscated and hidden by the...   More >

Thunder from the Steppes: New Perspectives on the Mongol Empire

Conference/Symposium | September 29 – 30, 2016 every day | 180 Doe Library

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative

Thursday, September 29, 4pm - 6 pm Keynote Address
Friday, September 30, 9 am - 6 pm

The Mongol Empire orients history between Asia and Europe, ancient and modern, rural and urban, settled and nomadic, scientific and faith-based, and soteriological and aristocratic worlds. This conference invites new research on the Mongol empire...   More >

Mark Morris Selects: Ashik Kerib (Sergei Paradjanov USSR, 1988) | CINEMA MON AMOUR: MARK MORRIS

Film - Feature | September 30 | 4 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

This is a film about art and the all-conquering power of love. Ashik Kerib, a poor singer and saz (Turkish guitar) player, when denied the hand of the woman he loves, sets out on a ten-year journey. The film recounts the adventures of the wandering minstrel.

Tickets required:$7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission For tickets please visit us at bampfa.org/tickets.

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