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Friday, February 1, 2019The Devil Really is in the Details: Why Specificity Matters in Understanding the Global Radical RightLecture | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Center for Right-Wing Studies There are obvious similarities between Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, Recep Erdoğan, Jair Bolsonaro, Jarosław Kaczyński, Rodrigo Duterte, Donald Trump, and all the other politicians we have come to call populists. Not only is that label misleading, but analyzing them as part of a single ideological movement can lead to confusion. This presentation will use the example of Poland to... More > Monday, February 4, 2019The Cutting Edge: Theory and the Avant-Garde in LjubljanaLecture | February 4 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall Kaitlyn Tucker, Humanities Teaching Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures This talk examines the historical relationship between the Ljubljana School and the avant-garde. Beginning in 1967 with Slavoj Zizeks and Rastko Mocniks first forays into concrete poetry and concluding with the Schools involvement in the Neue Slowenische Kunst movement during the 1980s, the talk analyzes the Ljubljana School's engagement with avant-garde aesthetics, and ultimately... More > Tuesday, February 5, 2019Political Economy of Reforms in Europes NeighborhoodLecture | February 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Sergei Guriev, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) Continuing economic convergence in Europes neighborhood requires further structural reforms. We will discuss the political economy of reforms in specific transition countries including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Thursday, February 7, 2019Shoroon Bumbagar: Tombs with Mounds in Central MongoliaLecture | February 7 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library Nancy S. Steinhardt , East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania Patricia Berger, History of Art, UC Berkeley, Emerita Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative The talk begins with a tomb often known as Shoroon Bumbagar that was excavated in Bayannuur, Bulgan province, Mongolia, in 2011. Covered with murals but without an inscription or other information about its date, the tomb is studied alongside the better known tombs such as Pugu Yitus (d. 678), only five kms away, and tombs of Tang China and Sogdiana. Before drawing conclusions, the talk turns... More > Monday, February 11, 2019Attacks on Gender Studies and Populism in EuropePanel Discussion | February 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall Laura Fantone, Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley; John Connelly, Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies, UC Berkeley; Pawel Koscielny, History Department, UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Gender and Women's Studies Join Laura Fantone, John Connelly and Pawel Koscielny Tuesday, February 12, 2019Sincerity out, Authenticity in: Poetry on the Quest for Trust in the times of Post-TruthLecture | February 12 | 5:30-7 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall Stanislav Lvovsky, Auhtor Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Back then in the first half of 1990s new generation of Russian poets, or its considerable part found itself facing the challenge of inventing a new way to speak straightforwardly: readily available poetics either werent quite fit for the job or themselves were part of the problem to be resolved. Poetry optics, which has emerged at the time in the capacity of the solution, was the new... More > Friday, February 15, 2019Outsiders: The History of Refugees in an Enlarged EuropeLecture | February 15 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library Philipp Ther, Professor of Central European History, University of Vienna Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) Refugees have permeated European history and the receiving states and societies have almost always profited from taking them in. This talk analyzes the major causes of mass flight and the oft traumatic journeys en route. Tracing the paths of the refugees, the narrative crosses the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and so provides a wider vision of European history that includes the United States.... More > Tuesday, February 19, 2019my petites madeleines are water canisters : The Genres, Images, and Intertexts of Bosnias Remembered WarLecture | February 19 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall Antje Postema, Lecturer, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language, UC Berkeley Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) In Bosnia and Hercegovina, wartime artistic patterns of genre, image, and intertextual reference have set the terms for postwar memory-making. These versatile, enduring patterns also illuminate the reciprocal influence of memory and art in Bosnia from the 1990s to the present. Thursday, February 21, 2019Future Reading: What Is Anglophone Fiction in the 21st Century?Lecture | February 21 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife room Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Rutgers English Grace Lavery, Assistant Professor, Berkeley English Colleen Lye, Associate Professor, Berkeley English Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department of English, Townsend Center for the Humanities, John F Hotchkis Chair in English Monday, February 25, 2019From Exile to Utopia: A Yugoslav Writers ReturnLecture | February 25 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall Djordje Popovic, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures The act of writing assures that exile is never permanent in the mind of the writer even if it is an abiding feature of their reality. Dubravka Ugresic explores this paradox in her essay The Writer in Exile, suggesting that what separates the exiled writer from the migrant is the formers ability to leave her footprints on the cultural map of the world, thus retaining the imprint of her... More > Tuesday, February 26, 2019Around Arthur Szyk: Berkeley Scholars on Art and History: Poland Reborn: A State Between Democracy and FascismLecture | February 26 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way) Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life This talk focuses on the divided Poland that emerged after World War I. On the one hand Poland had to accommodate the demands of generations of freedom fighters, while on the other... More > RSVP online, or by calling 5106432526. Thursday, February 28, 2019Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 and 1945-1946: New Social-Psychological PerspectivesLecture | February 28 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall William Hagen, Professor Emeritus of History, UC Davis Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) This talk will summarize the speakers arguments in his book, Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2018), contrasting them with major recent works on the post-World War II years by Polish scholars Joanna Tokarska-Bakir and Marcin Zaremba. It will highlight interpretation focused on popular mentalities, societal traumas, and enactment of routinized, unreflected-upon... More > ![]() |
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