Russian Language & Literature
Русский язык и русская литература в Рид–колледже

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2008-2009

Thursday, October 30, 5 PM, Biology 19
Poetry reading: Rome-based Russian poet Alexandra Petrova , introduced by
Prof. Evgenii Bershtein, will read her poems in Russian. Prof. Lena Lencek will read the English translations.

Sponsored by the Russian department and open to the public.

Monday, November 10, 6:30 PM, Psychology 105
Public Lecture: John Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Topic: Tradition and Invention: The World of Art (Mir Iskusstva)

Abstract: A survey of the modernist movement, founded by Sergei Diaghilev, Alexandre Benois and friends, that remade and renovated Russian art in the 1890s and first years of the twentieth century. Its impact on painting, publishing, exhibiting practice, design, and theater decor, culminating in the founding of the Ballets Russes, prepared the way for the emergence of the Russian avant-garde.

Sponsored by the Russian department. Open to the public.

Monday, November 10, 4-5:30 PM, Eliot 103
Seminar: John Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Topic: How a Russian Symbolist Poem Works.

Sponsored by the Russian department and open to the members of the Reed community (reading proficiency in Russian expected).

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Guest Lecturers

Monday, November 10, 6:30 PM, Psychology 105
Public Lecture: John Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Topic: Tradition and Invention: The World of Art (Mir Iskusstva)

Abstract: A survey of the modernist movement, founded by Sergei Diaghilev, Alexandre Benois and friends, that remade and renovated Russian art in the 1890s and first years of the twentieth century. Its impact on painting, publishing, exhibiting practice, design, and theater decor, culminating in the founding of the Ballets Russes, prepared the way for the emergence of the Russian avant-garde.

Sponsored by the Russian department. Open to the public.

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