Past Events

  • 2011 Nov 08

    Study Abroad Meeting

    4:15pm

    Location: 

    Barker 114 (Kresge Room)

    Representatives from Middlebury and the Harvard Office of International Programs will discuss international experiences with undergraduate students.

  • 2011 Nov 08

    GSAS Workshop

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker 373

    Yulia Valieva will present a rare 1930s film based on a short story by Aleksandr Vvedensky, discuss her work on poetry, and academic life in Russia/at St. Petersburg State University.

  • 2011 Nov 03

    Literary Colloquium

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Professor Todd’s residence

    Speaker: Maxim Pozdorovkin, “Khronika: Variations on a Theme.” 

  • 2011 Oct 26

    GSAS Workshop

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker 133 (Plympton Room)

    Speaker: Dennis Y. Tenen will speak on his work on the digital humanities.

  • 2011 Oct 25

    Minor Field Presentations

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker 133 (Plympton Room)

    Speakers: Tatyana Gershkovich and Vera Koshkina will present their minor field topics.

  • 2011 Oct 06

    Literary Colloquium

    6:30pm

    Location: 

    Professor Todd’s residence

    Speaker: Olga Zhulina, “Eisenstein's Mask: Theatricality in Ivan the Terrible films.”

  • 2011 Oct 04

    Rethinking Translation Seminar

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Barker 133

    Poet and translator Christian Hawkey will read from the book Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), by Georg Trakl, and offer creative response to the process of being translated into other languages.

    Please email Sandra Naddaff at snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu if you plan to attend.

  • 2011 Oct 04

    GSAS Workshop

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Barker 373

    Speakers: Julie Buckler and Justin Weir, discussion of minor fields and theory. 

  • 2011 Sep 27

    Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture

    4:15pm

    Location: 

    Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street

    Polish poet, essayist, and editor of "Literatura na swiecie," Piotr Sommer, will speak on the topic of "Where American Poetry Ended Up, and How Polish Poetry Started Again." 

  • 2011 Sep 20

    Literature & Culture Seminar

    4:15pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center B-04

    John MacKay, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Yale University, will speak on the topic of "Unsealing the Relics: Construction and Fetishism in Vertov."

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