“ROUNDTABLE:  Understanding the U.S. Relationship with Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia”

Allen C. Lynch, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia (Moderator)

Richard Miles, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan (1992-93), Bulgaria (1999-2002), and Georgia (2002-05)

Dr. Chris Mizelle, Director for Russia, National Security Council (2011-12)

Eugene Rumer, National Information Officer for Russia/Eurasia, DNI

Lynne Tracy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia, U.S. State Department

(Made possible by a generous grant from The Jefferson Trust)

THURSDAY, 4/25/13, 8:00-10:00pm OLD CABELL HALL

CONCERT: UVa Klezmer Ensemble

Special guests: Joshua Horowitz and Cookie Segelstein of Veretski Pass and Budowitz

(Organized and co-sponsored by the Music Department)

For questions about CREEES-organized events, contact MAM7CD@virginia.edu. For questions about Slavic Department events, contact DH9A@virginia.edu. For questions about Music Department events, contact JER2N@virginia.edu.

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You are cordially invited to attend an evening of lively Russian folk music in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom from 5:00-7:30pm on Sunday, March 31. The Russian folk group Zolotoy Plyos will be giving a concert that is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Please feel free to invite friends and family. We hope to see you there!

The concert is sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and the McIntire Department of Music.

Best wishes,
Michael Marsh-Soloway (Slavic Dept. graduate student and CREEES graduate assistant)
Viktoria Vutova (Slavic Dept. graduate student)
Jeffrey Rossman (CREEES director)

Saturday, 23 March 2013
9am – 6pm
University of Virginia, Central Grounds, Nau Hall 101

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — ALL ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

9:00am
Piotr H. Kosicki, ACLS New Faculty Fellow & CREEES Associate Director, University of Virginia
Welcome

9:15am
Allen Paul, Author of Katyń: Stalin’s Massacre and the Triumph of Truth
“Looking from the Outside In: the Katyń Journey of one Non-Pole”

10:30am
Nikita Petrov, Deputy Director of Memorial Society
“Katyń between Poland and Russia: Memorial and the Struggle for Transparency and Truth”

11:45am
Izabella Sariusz-Skąpska, President, Federation of Katyń Families
“From Widows and Orphans to an Activist Network: The Story of the Katyń Families”

1:00pm
LUNCH

2:00pm
Ireneusz Kamiński, Professor of Law, Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Sciences
“Katyń in Strasbourg: Human Rights Law and the Case against Russia”

3:30pm
Sławomir Frątczak, Director, Katyń Museum (Warsaw)
“From Mass Graves to a Museum: The Artifacts and Exhibits of Katyń”

4:45pm
Łukasz Michalski, Deputy Director of Public Education, Institute of National Remembrance
“Education and Historical Truth: The Challenges of Building National Memory about Katyń”

6:00pm
Reception

Organized by UVA’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies as part of the UVA Polish Lecture Series, made possible by the Rosenstiel Foundation and the American Institute of Polish Culture. Co-sponsored by the UVA Center for International Studies, the Page-Barbour Initiatives on Forced Migration and International Criminal Justice, and the Institute of National Remembrance of the Republic of Poland, with additional support from UVA’s Corcoran Department of History, Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures, Jewish Studies Program, and Departments of Sociology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, as well as the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC.

Michael Gorham, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Florida

Language, Culture, and Politics in New Russian Media

(Organized and co-sponsored by the Slavic Department)

Saturday, 3/23/13, 8:30am-6:00pm, Nau 101

Mass Violence, Justice, and Memory: The Katyń Massacres of 1940 in History, Memory, Education, and Law

Nikita Petrov, Deputy Director, Memorial Society (Russia)

Izabella Sariusz-Skąpska, President, Federation of Katyń Families (Poland)

Ireneusz Kamiński, Professor of Law, Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Sławomir Frątczak, Director, Katyń Museum (Poland)

Łukasz Michalski, Deputy Director of Public Education, Institute of National Remembrance (Poland)

(Made possible by the UVa Polish Lecture Series, which was generously endowed by the Rosenstiel Foundation in consultation with the American Institute of Polish Culture. Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies; the Page-Barbour Initiatives on Forced Migration and International Criminal Justice; the Institute for Global Humanities and Cultures; and the Departments of History, Slavic, and Sociology)

Tuesday, 3/26/13, 5:00-6:30pm, Maury 115

Melissa Frazier, Margot C. Bogert Distinguished Service Chair, Professor of Russian, Sarah Lawrence College

Romantic Intersubjectivity, the Literary Marketplace, and Senkovsky’s “Library for Reading

 (Organized and co-sponsored by the Slavic Department)

Thursday, 3/28/13, 7:00-9:00pm, Nau 101

CAREER SYMPOSIUM

Preparing for the World of Work: Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Ted Jonas, Managing Partner, DLA Piper (Tblisi, Republic of Georgia)

Dr. Chris Mizelle, Director for Russia, National Security Council (2011-12); Deputy NIO for Russia/Eurasia, DNI (2009-11)

Margo Squire, Director, Office of Strategic Communications & Outreach, Int’l. Security & Nonproliferation Bureau, U.S. State Dept.

Ed Verona, President & CEO, U.S.-Russia Business Council

Ambassador Ross Wilson, Director, Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council

(Made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust Foundation)

Sunday, 3/31/13, 5:00-7:30pm, Newcomb Hall Ballroom

An Evening of Russian Music with Zolotoy Plyos

(Organized and co-sponsored by the McIntire Department of Music)

 Thursday, 4/4/13,  4:00-6:00pm, Watson Manor (3 University Circle)

Dr. Leonidas Donskis, Member of the European Parliament from Lithuania

Modernity and Evil

(Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and co-sponsored by the Slavic Department)

Saturday, 4/6/13, 9:00am-5:00pm, Jefferson Scholars Foundation (112 Clarke Court)

UVa Slavic Forum: The Power of Language, the Language of Power

 (Organized and co-sponsored by Obrazovanshchina and the Slavic Department)

Thursday, 4/11/13, 4:00-6:00pm, Clark 107

Writing History in International Criminal Trials

Richard A. Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut

(Co-sponsored by the Page-Barbour Initiatives on Forced Migration and International Criminal Justice,

the UVa Law School Human Rights Program, and Departments of Anthropology and History)

 Friday, 4/12/13, 11:30am-12:50pm, UVa Law School, Room WB104

The Crime of Incitement and the Role of Propaganda and the Media in International Criminal Tribunal Judgments

Richard A. Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut

(Co-sponsored by the Page-Barbour Initiatives on Forced Migration and International Criminal Justice,

the UVa Law School Human Rights Program, and the Departments of Anthropology and History)

Thursday, 4/18/13, 7:00-9:00pm, Nau 101

ROUNDTABLE:  Understanding the U.S. Relationship with Eurasia

Allen C. Lynch, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia (Moderator)

Richard Miles, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan (1992-93), Bulgaria (1999-2002), and Georgia (2002-05)

Chris Mizelle, Director for Russia, National Security Council (2011-12)

Eugene Rumer, National Information Officer for Russia/Eurasia, DNI

Lynne Tracy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia, U.S. State Department

(Made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust Foundation)

Thursday, 4/25/13, 8:00-10:00pm Old Cabell Hall

CONCERT: UVa Klezmer Ensemble

Special guests: Joshua Horowitz and Cookie Segelstein of Veretski Pass and Budowitz

(Organized and co-sponsored by the Music Department)

For questions about CREEES-organized events, contact MAM7CD@virginia.edu. For questions about Slavic Department events, contact DH9A@virginia.edu. For questions about Music Department events, contact JER2N@virginia.edu.

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]]> http://www.virginia.edu/creees/2012/11/21/187/feed/ 0 http://www.virginia.edu/creees/2012/10/09/catholic-activism-behind-the-iron-curtain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catholic-activism-behind-the-iron-curtain http://www.virginia.edu/creees/2012/10/09/catholic-activism-behind-the-iron-curtain/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:27:08 +0000 admin http://www.virginia.edu/creees/?p=160 Details about CREEES’s upcoming symposium on “Catholic Activism Behind the Iron Curtain” (10/26/12, 9am – 5pm, Garrett Hall Commons, 3rd floor) can be found on the web site of The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought, which is co-sponsoring the event.

CALL FOR PAPERS – 51st Annual SCSS Conference 

March 21-23, 2013
 (Greensboro, NC)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: 1/15/2013

The Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Downtown Greensboro, NC, March 21-23, 2013.  The meeting will be co-hosted by UNC at Greensboro, Elon University, and Wake Forest University.

Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged. Papers and panels on all geographically relevant topics will be considered. Whole panel proposals (chair, three papers, discussant) are preferred, but proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Whole panel proposals should include titles of each paper as well as a title for the panel and identifying information (email addresses and institutional affiliations) for all participants. Proposals for individual papers should include email contact, institutional affiliation, and a brief (one paragraph) abstract to guide the program committee in the assembly of panels.  If any AV equipment will be needed, the panel and paper proposals should indicate so when they are submitted.  (AV will be of limited availability and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.)  Please email your proposal to Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu, or send by traditional mail to:  Dr. Sharon Kowalsky, Department of History, Texas A&M University, Commerce
 PO Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429.

For local arrangements or conference information other than the program, please contact Dr. Jeff Jones, UNC at Greensboro, jwjones@uncg.edu.

Yuri Yunakov and Carol Silverman Lecture/Demonstration of Romani Music (Friday, October 12, 10:00am-12:00pm, B18 Old Cabell Hall

“Global Gypsy: Romani Music, Representation, and Appropriation” a Colloquium by Carol Silverman (Friday, October 12, 3:30pm-5:00pm, 107 Old Cabell Hall)

Performance by the Yuri Yunakov Ensemble (Friday, October 12, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Auditorium)

From the Music Department Website:

“In the last twenty years  the popularity of Balkan Gypsy music has exploded, becoming a staple at world music festivals and dance clubs. At the same time, thousands of East European Roma have emigrated westward due to deteriorating living conditions, and entrenched stereotypes of thievery have arisen amidst deportations and harassment. In this heightened atmosphere of xenophobia, Roma, as Europe’s largest minority and its quintessential “other,” face the paradox that they are revered for their music yet reviled as people.

Bulgarian-born Yunakov, who now lives in New York, became the first Romani winner of the prestigious NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award in 2011, our nation’s highest honor for traditional folk artists. He came to prominence as a member of Bulgarian Romani clarinetist Ivo Papasov’s pioneering Trakija Ensemble, which is credited with having created the genre known as Bulgarian Wedding Music, a Romani style with strong jazz influences. The style is characterized by technical virtuosity and improvisation in rapid, asymmetrical and often abruptly shifting rhythmic meters. Since emigrating to the US, Yunakov has led his own ensemble, sometimes collaborating with Papasov, and has several albums on the Traditional Crossroads label.

Carol Silverman is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Focusing on the Balkans, her research investigates the relationships among culture, music, politics, ethnicity, ritual, and gender. Her book, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (Oxford, 2012) analyzes how Roma have forged a nuanced identity in Macedonia and Bulgaria and in re-diasporic spaces in North America.

All events are free and open to the public.

The residency was funded by the U.Va. Council for the Arts with supplemental funding from the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, and the Dunton Gift.”