SPRING 2007

Undergraduate Prizes:
Eighth Annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest

There were 702 essays submitted from 51 universities and colleges. Each essay was ranked by three judges in Russia.
First Place:
Esen Sefic - Second Year Russian
Third Place:  
Nicole Cretacci - Second Year Russian
Justin W. Lo - Second Year Russian
Eric Ciaramella - Third Year Russian
Brendan Carbonell - Fourth Year Russian
Honorable Mention:
Rachel Schechter - First Year Russian
Maria Blackwood - Intensive Russian
Sarah O'Brian - Second Year Russian

ПОЗДРАВЛЯЕМ!!!

January 17, 4-6 PM, HGS 401 -- Professor Michal Oklot, The American University in Cairo

January 24, 5:30-7:00 PM, WLH 116 -- Professor John MacKay, Slavic Languages & Literatures Department, Yale University, "Vertov before Vertov: The Prehistory of 'Kino-Eye'"

March 28, 4-6 PM, HGS 401, Professor John Bowlt, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Southern California, "Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov." For copies of readings in electronic form, please contact Dorothy Ovelar in the Slavic Department, dorothy.ovelar@yale.edu.

Slavic Film Colloquium

Slavic Theory Colloquium


FALL 2006

November 29, 4-6 PM, HGS 401 -- Professor Boris Gasparov, Slavic Department, Columbia University, Seminar on "Looking at Literature Through the Lens of Music." For copies of readings in electronic form, please contact Ms. Cheryl Morrison in the Slavic Department, 432-1300, cheryl.morrison@yale.edu.

SPRING 2006

February 22, 4 PM, HGS 401 -- Professor Harsha Ram, Slavic Department, University of California, Berkeley, Seminar on "From the Imperial Sublime to the Unknown Avant-Garde: Poetics and Cultural Politics in Russia and Georgia." For copies of readings, please contact Ms. Cheryl Morrison in the Slavic Department, 432-1300, cheryl.morrison@yale.edu

March 29, 4 PM, HGS 401 -- Laura Pontieri Hlavacek, Graduate Student, Slavic Department, Dissertation Colloquium on "Russian Animated Films of the Thaw." For copies of readings, please contact Ms. Cheryl Morrison in the Slavic Department,
432-1300, cheryl.morrison@yale.edu

April 7-9, Annual Graduate Student Conference on Slavic Literatures and Cultures. For more information, please contact rossen.djagalov@yale.edu, or
constantine.rusanov@yale.edu

April 19, 4 PM, HGS 401--Viktor Erofeev, Russian Writer, Talk in Russian:"Pisateli bez literatury" (O novoi situatsii literatury v Rossii, kogda literaturnoe i
kul'turnoe pole raskololos' na 1000 kuskov)

FALL 2005

September 8, 4-6 PM, 211 Hall of Graduate Studies -- Slavic Department's Fall Welcome Reception

Slavic Film Colloquium--regular screenings and discussions during the academic year; for more information, please contact Jeremi Szaniawski (jeremi.szaniawski@yale.edu).

Slavic Theory Colloquium--regular meetings, readings and discussions during the academic year; for more information, please contact Constantine Rusanov (constantine.rusanov@yale.edu).

November 16, 4 PM, HGS 401 -- Danijela Matkovic True, Slavic Department, Yale University, Dissertation Seminar on " Literary Group Dynamics in the Late Avant-Garde Period" (for readings, please contact Ms. Cheryl Morrison in the Slavic Department, 432-1300) cheryl.morrison@yale.edu

November 30, 4 PM, HGS 401 -- Professor Yuri Tsivian, Film Studies, University of Chicago, "'What is cinema?' -- What is this question?". For copies of readings, please contact Ms. Cheryl Morrison in the Slavic Department, 432-1300, cheryl.morrison@yale.edu

December 3, 2005, 9:30 AM-6:00 PM,
401 Hall of Graduate Studies--Yale Slavic Undergraduate Conference

December 7, 4-6 PM, 211 Hall of Graduate Studies -- Slavic Department's Holiday Reception

SPRING 2005

Slavic Film Colloquium -- for details about regular screenings, please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department (432-1300)

January 19, 4PM, HGS 401 -- Cristina Vatulescu, Comparative Literature Department, Harvard University, Job Talk, "A Politics of Estrangement"

January 26, 4PM, HGS 401 -- Sophia Khagi, Slavic Department, Brown University, Job Talk, topic TBA (please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department, 432-1300)

February 9, 4PM, HGS 401, Julia Vaingurt, Slavic Department, Harvard University, Job Talk, topic TBA (please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department, 432-1300)

February 16, 4PM, HGS 401, Ilya Kliger, Comparative Literature Department, Yale University, Job Talk, topic TBA (please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department, 432-1300)

March 2, 4PM, HGS 401, Sara Stefani, Slavic Department, Yale University, Dissertation Seminar (for title and readings, please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department, 432-1300)

April 13, 4 PM, HGS 401, Professor Alexander Zholkovsky, Slavic Department, University of Southern California, Seminar on “Russian Infinitive Poetry: History, Theory, Practical Analyses.” For copies of readings, please contact Mrs. Helen Stopkoski in the Slavic Department (432-1300)