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RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN ARTS WORLD STAGE

Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies proudly announces an upcoming interdisciplinary conference. Russian and East European Arts, World Stage will be held from May 17-19, and will examine Russian and East European arts and letters in an international context. The conference will include live music and dance, a drama performance, two keynote presentations, and five scholarly panels.

See below for more information on the conference, including Conference Registration.

Conference Specifics

Talks will be given on a wide range of subjects: Eisenstein’s films, Karel Čapek, Yugoslav literature, Russian art, literary translations, the globalization of Balkan gypsy music, and Russian fiction, poetry and drama ranging from the nineteenth century to the present.

Keynote lectures will be given by Helena Goscilo of the Ohio State University on “Two-Way Traffic: The East-West Cultural Exchange” and by Eliot Borenstein on “Catastrophe of the Week: Entertaining the Apocalypse in Postsocialist Russia.”

A theatrical presentation, “To Hell With Meyerhold: History and Unforgetting,” and an evening of Balkan folk music and dance will be further highlights of the conference.

For more information please download the Preliminary Conference Program. Click here for the Conference Poster.

If you plan to attend the conference (all events are free and open to the public), please click here to register. When you have finished filling out the short form, click “Submit Form” (upper right corner), then enter your email address, and name, and click the SEND button at the bottom of the page. Registration helps us in our planning – thanks!