The 19th Biennial Conference on Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore will take place at The University of Chicago from April 25-27, 2014.
This event introduces Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic adaptations of Russian literature through a series of screenings -- The Idiot (1951), Ikiru (1952), The Lower Depths (1957), and Dersu Uzala (1975).
Professor Susan Gal, Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences in the College, will deliver the 2013 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Traveling Feminisms? Women of the Extreme Right in Europe
Social Science Research, Room 122 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Part of the Central Eurasian Studies Committee 2013 Lecture Series.
Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies Committee, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Central Asian Students Society and the Center for International Studies
Associate professor of modern Central Asian studies, University of Michigan
Part of the Central Eurasian Studies Committee 2013 Lecture Series.
Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies Committee, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Central Asian Students Society and the Center for International Studies
Michael Khodarkovsky: "Empire and Identity in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus"
This paper is an introduction to the history of the region and its peoples. We shall consider how and why did the North Caucasus become part of Russia; Russian policies during the conquest that lasted for over three centuries; the plight of the indigenous population before and after the Russian conquest; and the emergence of the new imperial identities in this contested borderland.
The Trickster and the Others: New Bulgarian Cinema and the Crisis of Masculinity
Dr. Christina Stojanova University of Regina
Film Screening(Mission:London)
Friday, November 9
2:30pm, Cobb 425
Talk
Monday, November 12, 2012
4:30pm, Foster 103
Free to all, Sponsored by the Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
The fifth annual Chicago International Education Conference provided 100 educatos with hands-on tools to connect their students with the world. The keynote talk was delivered by Julia de la Torre of Primary Source.
Friday, November 2, 2012 to Saturday, November 3, 2012
"Previously models were conceived as rationalized stations on the way to a perfect object. […] The model was merely an image, a representation of reality without being real itself. What we are witnessing is a shift in the traditional relationship between reality and representations. We no longer progress from model to reality, but from model to model while acknowledging that both models are, in fact, real. […] Models have become co-producers of reality." — Olafur Eliasson
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 to Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Growing out of the tradition of more than four decades of scholarship and conferences on the Caucasus at the University of Chicago, CEERES will host a speaker series entitled Connecting with the Caucasus during the 2012-13 academic year. We hope to build on the results of our highly successful 2007 conference “The Caucasus: Directions and Disciplines" which outlined the critical agendas that orient regional studies and achieved a high level of inter-disciplinary cross fertilization. This series will bring together both younger and senior scholars from a variety of fields (Linguistics, History, Politics, Anthropology and Sociology, Literature/Music/Art) to revisit the histories, analyze the contemporary situations, and encourage the creation of new knowledge with regard to an area of considerable humanistic, social scientific, and strategic significance. The speaker series will set the stage for a follow-up to the 2007 conference in winter 2014.
