Spring 2019 Events
Tuesday, February 19, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Clark Hall 102
“Dostoevsky: For and Against the Self”
Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Wednesday, February 20th, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Monroe Hall 124
“Polish Politics on the World Stage”
A roundtable featuring Stephen D. Mull, the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at UVa and former US Ambassador to Poland, Krzysztof Jasiewicz, the Ames Professor of Sociology at Washington and Lee University, and Aleksandra Sznajder Lee, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES, the Corcoran Department of History, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
This lecture is part of the “Crossing Borders” Spring 2019 UVa Polish Lecture Series made possible by the generosity of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel and the American Institute of Polish Culture.
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Thursday, February 28, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Nau Hall 211
“Internal Frontiers: Citizen Denunciations and the Construction of Belonging in the Polish Second Republic, 1918-1923.”
Keely Stauter-Halsted, the Hejna Family Chair in Polish Studies and Professor History at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES, the Corcoran Department of History, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
This lecture is part of the “Crossing Borders” Spring 2019 UVa Polish Lecture Series made possible by the generosity of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel and the American Institute of Polish Culture.
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Tuesday, March 5, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Movie Screening: “Cold War,” dir. Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland, 2018).
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES, the Corcoran Department of History, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in European Studies
This lecture is part of the “Crossing Borders” Spring 2019 UVa Polish Lecture Series made possible by the generosity of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel and the American Institute of Polish Culture.
Pizza will be served at this event.
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Saturday, March 30, 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Jefferson Scholars Building at 112 Clarke Court
University of Virginia Slavic Forum: “On the Edge”: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Innovation, Modernity, and Trends
The University of Virginia Society of Slavic Graduate Students is sponsoring an interdisciplinary forum devoted challenging contemporary and historical perceptions and values, identifying outlying ideas and trends, and investigating tensions between the old and the new.
The modern world is punctuated by periods of innovation, revolution, and change. As we conceive of monumental breakthroughs throughout history and across cultures, we look to individuals and movements that have challenged the status quo and broke with accepted norms and traditions.
Forum organized by the Society of Slavic Graduate Students, CREEES, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Monday, April 1, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Gibson Hall 211
”The Prussian Origins of Polish Socialism: The Upper Silesia Tower and the Poznań International Fair, 1911-1959″
Patryk Babiracki, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington
This lecture is part of the “Crossing Borders” Spring 2019 UVa Polish Lecture Series made possible by the generosity of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel and the American Institute of Polish Culture.
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Sunday, April 7, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Old Cabell Hall
Workshop on Klezmer Music
Deborah Strauss, member of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band
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Wednesday, April 10, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Nau 342
Colloquium on Klezmer Music in Poland
Deborah Strauss and Cantor Jeff Warschauer of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo
Organized and co-sponsored by the McIntire Department of Music, CREEES, and the UVA Jewish Studies Program
Lunch will be provided
RSVP: Adam Cohn ajc6g@virginia.edu
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Thursday, April 11, 8:00 p.m.
UVA Klezmer Ensemble Concert under the direction of Joel Rubin, with special guest the Strauss/Warschauer Duo
More details about this event will be posted at a later time
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Past Events
Thursday, January 31, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Clark Hall 102
“Gender and Medicine in Premodern Russia: Folk Healers, Faith Healers, and the First Woman Doctor”
Eve Levin, professor of Russian and East European history at the University of Kansas
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Thursday, February 7, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Hotel A (Center for Global Inquiry+Innovation)
Book Talk: The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
(Cornell University Press, 2018)
Sarah Cameron, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Maryland
Organized and co-sponsored by CREEES, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and
the Corcoran Department of History
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