Local Event: State Ballet Theatre of Russia: "The Nutcracker"
Date:
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Location:
EKU Center for the Arts
Event Series:
Russia
Ernie Yanarella Lecture, "From Sputnik to Chernobyl: The Shadow Side of Soviet Belief in Technology’s Promethean Powers"
Lecturing on Russian Environmental Issues
Date:
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Location:
Center Theater, Student Center
Event Series:
Kemal Pervanic, Lecture: "How We Live Our LIves: Personal Reflections of a Genocide Survivor."
Kemal Pervanic is a survivor of the Serb concentration camp of Omarska that was established in northwestern Bosnia in May 1992 as part of a strategy of "ethnic cleansing." Mr. Pervanic wrote of his experiences during the startup phase of the war in Bosnia in his memoir "The Killing Days: My Journey through the Bosnian War" (Blake: London, 1999). He is at work on a second book dealing with his activities in support of ethnic Muslim refugees seeking to reestablish an existence in the area in northwestern Bosnia from which he and they were expelled in 1992. He is also collaborating with filmmaker David Evans on a documentary film "Pretty Village." During Fall Semester 2012 he is in residence at Columbia University as Human Rights Activist 2012.
Date:
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Location:
Student Center 230
Event Series:
Karen Petrone, Lecture, "A Short Course on Soviet History: 1917-1941."
Lecture at the Crime and Punishment in Russia's Realms class. Free and open to the public.
Date:
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Location:
Chemistry-Physics 153
Event Series:
Film Showing: Gruber’s Journey (Romania)
Co-Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass. $7/ticket; free with valid college ID
Date:
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Location:
UK Student Center, Centre Theater
Event Series:
Russian Tea/Русский чай
Join us for sweet & savory Russian treats and a cup of tea! All levels of Russian speakers are welcome, as are those of you who do not speak Russian.
Date:
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Location:
245 Patterson Office Tower
Event Series:
Erin Koch, Lecture, “Saakashvili's "zero tolerance" Regime & Its Consequences”
Lecture in Crime and Punishment Class, free and open to the public
Date:
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Location:
Chemistry-Physics 153
Event Series:
Stefan Pugh, Linguistics Program Seminar, “The Linguistics of Rusyn: Phonological and Morphological Systems, Language Contact”
This seminar aims to present the major structural features of the Rusyn language – phonological and morphological – that make it what it is: it is East Slavic, related to but not the same as Ukrainian, and also something special, almost a bridge between East and West Slavic. That ‘something special’ is in great part attributable to long contact with other languages and their speakers, but also to certain linguistic innovations that are not identifiable simply as the result of borrowing from other languages.
Date:
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Location:
Patterson Office Tower 420
Event Series:
Stefan Pugh, Lecture, "The Rusyns and their language: East Slavs in search of identity"
In this talk we explore who the Rusyns are, the language(s) they speak, and the complex interplay of issues that contribute to the construction of their ethnic and linguistic identities. Although we do not address the detailed workings of their language, we examine the position of Rusyn within the larger societies in which Rusyns live, and we also attempt to put it into perspective vis-à-vis its closest relative (Ukrainian) and other Slavic languages.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery, Fine Arts Library
Event Series:
Janet Stamatel Lecture, “Democracy, Crime, & Punishment in Central Eastern Europe”
Lecturing on “Democracy, Crime, & Punishment in Central Eastern Europe”, Crime & Punishment Class
Date:
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Location:
Chem-Phys 153
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