Past Event Category: Slavic Events
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Sep 24“Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double,” a lecture by Allen Kuharski
Allen Kuharski, Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore College
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive CREECA Event Page
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Lapinski Family Fund and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. About the Lecture: Witold Gombrowicz is Poland’s most produced playwright around the world—and more performed abroad than in Poland itself. His first play Ivona, Princess of Burgundia is the most-produced Polish play of all time outside of Poland. Gombrowicz’s theater leads a …
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Sep 18A talk on the book “Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life”
Michael Wachtel (Princeton U)
1312 Van Hise
Michael Wachtel (Princeton U), will discuss his recent book “Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life”.
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Sep 17“A Voice in the Wilderness: The Vita Nova Publishing House and Its Anti-Nazi Program,” a lecture by Michael Wachtel
Michael Wachtel, Princeton University
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive CREECA Event Page
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. About the lecture: The talk is based on approximately 800 pages of unpublished correspondence between the Jewish philosopher and musician Evsei Davidovich Shor and the Protestant writer and publisher Rudolf Roessler. After leaving …
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Sep 10“White Film: Tonality and Tone in Soviet Cinema,” a lecture by Maria Belodubrovskaya
Maria Belodubrovskaya, University of Chicago
Ingraham 206 CREECA Event Page
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair in Russian History and Department of Communication Arts Film Colloquium. About the Lecture: When Soviet films were shown in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, reviewers often complained about their slow tempo and propagandistic appeals but praised their acting and cinematography. Although since 1930 …
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Feb 16Virtual Lecture: Yugoslav & Post-Yugoslav Jewish Identity in the Balkans
Zoom
This talk will aim to better understand Jewish identity in Yugoslavia, and its implication on the wars that saw its dissolution and afterward.
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Nov 16Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
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Nov 9Madison Polish Film Festival ‘25
Marquee Cinema at Union South
Join us for the 2025 Madison Polish Film Festival at the Marquee Cinema at Union South!
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Sep 11“Russian Poetry and Its Freedom: Reflections After 2022,” a lecture by Stephanie Sandler
206 Ingraham Hall
This lecture will survey the possibilities for freedom in poems, journals, anthologies, podcasts, radio programs, and social media posts after 2022, with examples from Israel, Latvia, Germany, the United States, and Russia. Poets and editors discussed may include Igor Bulatovsky, Dmitry Kuz’min, Lev Oborin, Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Skidan, Maria Stepanova, and Evgenia Vezhlian.