WHEN: Thursday-Wednesday, Oct. 23-29
WHERE: Nebraska Union, 1400 R Street, and UNL Culture Center, 333 N. 14th Street
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 14, 2003 -- Russian Week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, featuring a culture night, lectures by renowned international speakers, a film, and a poetry session, is Oct. 23-29.
Lincoln has a sizeable Russian-speaking community from the former Soviet Union. The UNL Russian Club and students of the Russian language have planned the Russian Week to bring the Russian-speaking community and students of Russian together.
The events are sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the UNL Russian Club in the College of Arts and Sciences. Except for the Oct. 23 culture night, all events are free and open to the public and will be at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. For more information about the events, call Mila Saskova-Pierce, associate professor of modern languages and literatures, at (402) 472-1336.
Thursday, Oct. 23: Russian culture night will be celebrated from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the UNL Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St. Traditional Russian food will be sold and a dance to modern and traditional music will be held. Everyone is welcome to attend. Cost is $2.
Monday, Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m.: Princeton University professor emeritus Charles Townsend will speak on "Teaching of Russian and Slavic Languages in the United States." Townsend's professional tenure at Princeton spanned 37 years and he is a former chair of Princeton's Slavic Department. He is a former student of famous linguist Roman Jakobson, and founding member of an array of professional associations in the field of Slavic studies. Townsend, who took political stands against Stalinism and neo-Stalinism and the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia, has been a principal player in the development of Slavic linguistics in the United States. He has published numerous textbooks, books and articles in fields including Slavic grammars, language planning, theories of written and spoken languages, and language policies. He has done many translations of academic texts, fiction and philosophy.
Monday, Oct. 27, 7-9 p.m.: The film "Film Passions," directed by Kira Muratova, will be shown. Muratova is a native of Moldova in Eastern Europe. She was a Soviet dissident and with the end of censorship became renowned for previously undiscovered films from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as contemporary works.
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 10-11 a.m.: Yuri Potapov, assistant dean at Udmurt State University in Izhevsk, Russian Federation, will speak on "The Region between Volga and Ural in the Russian Federation: Histories and Cultures." Among Potapov's duties has been the development of instructional technologies at his institution. He teaches legal English and German and has published in the field of technology effectiveness in distance education. He is a visiting scholar at UNL.
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 9:30-11 a.m.: A poetry reading where students and others interested in Russian poetry can attend and read their favorite poem by a Russian poet, in Russian or English.
CONTACT: Mila Saskova-Pierce, Assoc. Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures, (402) 472-1336
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Posted by Tom Simons, Office of University Communications
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