Calendar of Events

Spring 2008
Dates   Activities:
01/24 – E-Board Elections + Viewing of Part 1 film "With Sword & Fire"
01/31 – Viewing of Part 2 film "With Sword & Fire"
02/07 –
Lecture by Dr. Nathaniel Knight, Is Putin Good for Russia?
02/14 – Officers meeting
02/21 – Slavic Club Night
02/26 –
"Clothes for Living and Dying: Two projects on cloth, photography,
            and gender in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina
"
            Presentation by Artist, Margareta Kern,
Beck Rooms, Walsh Library, 5pm
02/28 – Officers meeting
03/06 – Russian Mardi Gras
03/13 – Dr. Diana Greene lecture (NYU), Women and Women’s Poetry
            in 19th Century Russia, Europe, and the U.S.

04/03 – Officers Meeting
04/05 –
Brighton Beach Trip
04/10 –
Officers Meeting
04/16 – Lecture
by Dr. Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania, History Dept.
       
   The Russian Empire as a "Civilized State": International Law as Principle & 
           Practice in Imperial Russia, 1874-1878,
5:30pm, Nursing 102, cosponsored with  
           REESP & the History Dept.
04/17 – Officers Meeting
04/24 -- SC End of the Year Coldstone Ice Cream Celebration, 5:30pm

End of the year activity

Fall 2007
Dates  Events
09/06   Officers meeting

09/13   SC Elections
09/17   
Eastern European Symposium: 9:15am-3:45pm, Beck Rooms, Walsh Library
09/19   
The Peacekeepers and the Women,
award winning movie, followed by panel
            discussion, 2pm
10/04  
Certificate in Russian and East European Studies Program  (REESP) and  
            summer trips to Russia
, a talk by Prof. Nathaniel Knight
10/11    Officers Meeting to discuss upcoming activities

10/18   
Movie Inner Circle - Introduced by Prof. Knight
19/25   
Lecture by Professor Raymond Capra (Classical Studies)
         
 The Scythians & the Greeks: Ancient Encounters on the Eurasian Steppes
11/01    Officers Meeting
11/0
8    Roundtable Discussion on Russian Etiquette
11/15    Movie Night:  East - West, French / Russian with English subtitles
11/29    Southeast Europe and Croatia Today, lecture by
           
Ambassador Amir Muharemi, Deputy Permanent Representative of
            the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations

12/0
6    Christmas Party, off campus

Spring 2007
Dates  Events
1/17    Getting together to discuss spring activities
1/22    SC Elections
1/29   
Prof. Knight and Prof. Matusevich talk about the REESP Program
          and the
Trip to Russia this summer
2/05    Game Night

2/21    Prof. Hunter's Lecture
          Economic Situation in Poland: Why has the transition been so difficult?
2/26
    Profs. Booth and Deyrup Lecture
          
Cross-Cultural Exchanges: Latinists in Renaissance Poland & Croatia
3/14    Movie "Oblomov" introduced by Prof. Knight
3/15    ILIAC Library Conference, in Walsh Library
, 9am-4:30pm,
3/19   
Lecture by Ivan Bojanic, J.D. and Susan Nolan, Ph.D.
          A Year in the Mountains: Emerging Democracy in Rural Bosnia-Herzegovina
3/28   
Annual Easter Egg Decorating Workshop
4/11   
Lecture by visiting scholar, Prof. Vucina Zoric, Montenegro & Educational Reform
4/14   
Annual Brighton Beach Trip (Saturday)
4/18    Annual Picnic
4/26   
Lecture by Dr. Alexei Yuchak,
University of California, Berkeley
          
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More

Fall 2006 
Dates   Events
09/13   Students Activities Fair
09/20   SC Elections
09/27   P
resentation of the "Autumn Marathon" by Prof. Maxim Matusevich
10/04   Certificate in Russian and East European Studies Program  (REESP)
           lecture by Prof. Nathaniel Knight

10/07   University Day on the Green (Saturday, 12-5 pm)
10/11   Movie, Brat, part II
10/18   Paul Greenberg & his novel Leaving Katya
10/25    Movie Lilya Forever
11/01    Lecture by Dr. Maxim Matusevich: Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa:
           Three Centuries of Encounters

11/08   Cosponsoring SAB's ethnic food night in the cove
11/15    Meeting with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN, Valeriy Kuchynsky, 6pm
11/28   Cosponsoring International Festival, University Center
11/29   Movie: Moscow on the Hudson
12/06   
Energy, Power and New Dependencies on the Former USSR
            lecture by Prof. Margarita Balmaceda

2/09    Christmas Party (Saturday)
 
Spring 2006

Dates   Events
01/11   
Drs.Matusevich's & Knight's presentation about the trip to St. Petersburg,
            Russia, this June

01/18   
Slavic Club's Elections
01/25   
2nd Drs.Matusevich's & Knight's presentation about the trip
            to St. Petersburg, Russia, this June

02/01   
Watching Yakov Smirnoff's video, “Just Off the Boat”
02/08    Professor Olga Lyamina's presentation of her art via slides;
            SC President, Katarina Kostikova's, and SC VP, George Mihalik's,        
            presentations on Czech Republic & Slovakia

02/15    Lecture by Fr. Jim Spera: The Legacy of St. Kiril and
            St. Methodius: Apostles to the Slavs

02/22   
Maslenitsa (Russian Mardi Gras Celebration)
03/15    Dr. Simone James Alexander's Lecture,
Black Freedom inSerp i Molot
            Communist Russia: Reflections & Reminiscences of a Past Life

03/
19    Trip to Russian Orthodox Church and lunch in NYC
03/
22   
Annual Easter Egg Decorating Workshop
04/
05