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Lithuanian Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, October 3, 2007
Madison Vilnius Sister Cities, Inc.
Location: 7:00 PM , Memorial Union, TITU
About the lecture: Madison Vilnius Sister Cities, Inc. (MVSC) cordially invites you to attend a free, informal presentation by four Lithuanian agriculture and animal breeding/husbandry specialists on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 7pm in Meeting Room K, Monona Terrace, Madison, WI. Drs. Girmantas Gumauskas, Jonas Gutauskas, Jonas Kutra, and Vilius Ziogas are visiting Madison to attend the World Dairy Expo and will be offering a short lecture for the community at large entitled, "Lithuanian Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future". Please join us for an open discussion following the presentation and in welcoming our guests to Madison. Refreshments will be served.
Please visit madisonvilnius.org for more information and updates or email Daina Juozevicius at auradain@tds.net.
Thursday, October 3, 2007
Jeffrey Goldfarb, New School for Social Research
Location: 7:00 PM , Memorial Union, TITU
About the lecture: Jeffrey Goldfarb is the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Goldfarb specializes in media, culture and micro-politics. He will discuss his new book, The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times, which stresses the significance of micro-politics during important turning points in recent history. This Spotlight Speaker Series is sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate DLS and Contemporary Issues Committees, and co-sponsored by the UW-Madison Sociology Department. For more information about this event contact Carly Schall, ceschall@wisc.edu.
Housing Divides: The Causes and Consequences of Housing Inequality in Russia
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Jane Zavisca, assistant professor of sociology, University of Arizona
Location: 4:00 PM , 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: CREECA
About the lecture: After the collapse of Soviet Russia, the new regime transferred property rights over government housing to current occupants. This decision created the most important source of post-Soviet household wealth, and has had profound consequences for the stratification order. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and analysis of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, this study documents the sources and extent of housing inequality in Russia , and examines its consequences for support for market reform.
About the speaker: Jane Zavisca is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California , Berkeley in 2004. During 2004-05 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute at the University of North Carolina . Her dissertation, "Consumer Inequalities and Regime Legitimacy in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia," examines social and cultural change in Russia . Her main areas of interest include political and economic sociology and postsocialist societies.
Film Screenings: Aelita, Queen of Mars and Cosmic Voyage
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Part of the Fall 2007 Cinematheque Film Series “From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film”First Film Screening: Aelita, Queen of Mars
Location: 7:30 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave.
Co-sponsors: CREECA
About the film: Based on Tolstoy’s novel, Aelita is the world's first feature film to use interplanetary travel as its main plot line. A brilliant engineer and a crusty soldier travel to the Red Planet to find it inhabited by meek humanoids and ruled with an iron fist by the beautiful Aelita. A unique set design captures Soviet Constructivism at its most unhinged. ( USSR, 1924, 35mm, b/w, silent, 90 min. Russian intertitles with live English translation. Directed by Yakov Protazanov. With Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli).
Special notes: The screening of “Aelita, Queen of Mars” will be accompanied by a live piano performance by David Drazin. The feature will be followed by a short film, “Interplanetary Revolution” (1924).
Second Film Screening: Cosmic Voyage (Kosmicheskiy reis)
Location: 9:30 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave.
About the film: This effects-filled story follows renegade space traveler Pavel on his voyage to the moon and offers a startlingly realistic technological prophecy. In spite of a rocket named after Stalin, the film is full of anti-doctrinal individualism. ( USSR, 1936, 35mm, b/w, silent, 70 min. Directed by Vasili Zhuravlev. With Sergei Komarov, K. Moskalenko, Vassili Gaponenko).
CANCELED: Mongol Empire and Alcohol
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Thomas Allsen, professor emeritus of history, College of New Jersey
Location: 4:00 PM , 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Central Asian Studies Program
About the lecture: The acquisition and distribution of alcoholic beverages was an integral part of the political culture of the steppe peoples. In the 13th-14th centuries the Mongols, drawing upon the traditions, technologies and resources of the empire's diverse populations, mobilized and dispensed alcohol on a continental scale. The lecture will explore the steppe's extensive alcoholic relations with the sown and assess the consequences of this relationship for the Mongol Empire and for the long term history of alcohol.
About the speaker: Thomas Allsen is Professor Emeritus in History at the College of New Jersey and served as President of The Mongolia Society from 1995-1998. He has published several articles and chapters in books about Mongolian culture, politics, and history. Allsen has also authored several monographs, including his most recent, The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2006, as well as Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia (2001) and Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (1997).
CANCELED: Forging an Alternative Academic Career after Graduate School
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Mary Petrusewicz, lecturer, Stanford University Continuing Studies Program and independent writer and editor
Location: 4:00 PM , 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA, Slavic, Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development; Go Studies, Go Global!More information to come.
Balkanology and EUrology: Recent Developments and Future Challenges
Thursday, October 25, 2007
“Balkanology and EUrology: Recent Developments and Future Challenges”
Victor Friedman, professor of Slavic and Balkan linguistics, University of Chicago
Location: 4:00 PM , 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA
About the lecture: Multilingualism has been a hallmark of the EU since the days when it was only a gleam in the eye of the EEC. It has also been a particularly salient feature of the Balkan Peninsula, and the specific nature of Balkan multilingualism has attracted the attention of linguists since the early nineteenth century. Although representatives of all the major language groups of the Balkan Peninsula (Albanic, Hellenic, Indic, Romance, Slavic, Turkic) have been spoken in the EU since the accession of Greece, EU minority language policy has been slow to penetrate the region. The Yugoslav Wars of Succession have had significant impact on both the representation of the Balkan linguistic situation and the realization of language policies. Now the accession of Romania and Bulgaria raise new questions. Meanwhile, in Western Europe, typologists are looking at language contact in ways that mirror political developments. The lecture will address these issues in their specifically Balkan linguistic context, taking into account historical precedents, recent developments, and possible future directions.
About the speaker: Victor Friedman is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago . Friedman also holds joint appointments there in the Departments of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as an associate appointment in Anthropology, and is the current Director of the Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Friedman has done fieldwork in the Balkans for over thirty-five years and has received research grants from Fulbright-Hays, IREX, ACLS, NEH, APS, etc. In 1982 he received the "1300 Years of Bulgaria " jubilee medal for contributions to the field of Bulgarian studies. In 1991 and again in 2003, he was awarded the University of Skopje Gold Plaque for contributions to the field of Macedonian studies, and in 1994 he was elected to the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. During the Yugoslav Wars of Succession, he worked as a Senior Policy and Political Analyst for the Analysis and Assessment Unit of the United Nations Protection Forces stationed in former Yugoslavia (summer 1994), joined a fact finding mission for the South Balkan Project of the Center for Preventive Action of the Council on Foreign Relations (1995-1997), consulted for the International Crisis Group (1997), and did some work with the United States Institute for Peace (1999-2000). Friedman is the author of several books and monographs, including Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond: Studies in Contact, Typology, and Other Phenomena in the Balkans and the Caucasus (2003) and Studies on Albanian and Other Balkan Languages (2004). Friedman has also published countless articles, reviews, and letters in the International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics, the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, World Literature Today, and National Geographic.