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"Putting Your Major to Work: Career Opportunities Using Russian"
Maureen Riley
"Post-Accession Hooliganism: Bulgaria and Romania in the EU"
Venelin Ganev
Date and Time: Canceled
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Language Institute
About the lecture: At some point in time you may wake up and realize that the foreign
language and area studies skills you are so eagerly working toward may
not be your ticket to success. At least not right off the bat and not
without a little effort on your part. The day you are handed your
diploma should not be the day you start thinking about what you will do
with all that knowledge and ability. But don't despair; there are many
things you could consider doing with your language skills that you might
not have thought about, or even known about. I hope to give you some
general guidance to putting your world language study to the best use
and to share with you some of my own experiences on my long and winding
road to finding satisfaction as a Russian major.
This lecture is being held as part of the International Opportunities Month.
About the speaker: Maureen Riley is Instructor in advanced Russian translation (Russian to English)
in the Washington Office of the Defense Language Institute. She is responsible
for all aspects of advanced Russian translation training for personnel assigned
to the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link. These include screening,
pre-training evaluation, instruction and post-training assessment of candidates for the
position of Presidential Translator, developing curriculum and materials, and conducting
skills maintenance training for staff. On an as-needed basis, she provides Russian-English
translation services for Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, and other Defense Department and
federal agencies.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 4 at 5:30 P.M.
Location: Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, room TBA (see Today in the Union)
Sponsors: University Lectures Committee, CREECA, and the departments of Art, English, Slavic Languages and Literature, Theatre and Drama, and Visual Cultures
About the lecture: “Shifting Dramaturgy” will consider several key practices and problems of dramaturgy: the shift from dramaturgy of text to the dramaturgy of performance, the position of dramaturgy in-between theory and practice, and the relation of dramaturgy to other practices in the process of making theatre and other art forms. Blaževic will reflect on the authorship and authority of dramaturgy in the creative process and its (in)visibility and implicit power in performance. This lecture will frame arts production and presentation under the expansive term “dramaturgy.” While an extension of Blaževic's work on performance as both repression and resistance in the (former) Yugoslavia, the talk reaches well beyond the Croatian context. Examples might include a critical reading of writings on dramaturgy, a discussion on the role dramaturges are taking in contemporary productions, dramaturgical strategies in the editorial policy of the performing arts journal Frakcija, analysis of the Statehood Day military parade or President Tudjman’s birthday party.
About the speaker: Marin Blažević, Ph.D. in theatre studies, is a theatre and performance studies scholar, theatre critic, dramaturg and curator from Zagreb, Croatia, and an assistant professor in the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb. He teaches history of theatre and drama, especially postdramatic theatre, semiotics of theatre, performance studies, theatre criticism, and the dramaturgy of text and performance. At the same department he is also working on the research projects Branko Gavella: History, theory and culture of theatre and Theatre Directing in Croatia. Blažević was editor in chief of the performing arts journal Frakcija, founding editor of the Akcija (Action), a performing arts and performance theory book series (published by the Centre for Drama Arts Zagreb), and dramaturg in several theatre projects. His book Razgovori o novom kazalištu (Conversations on the New Theatre) was published in 2007. His new book Via Negativa (on the postdramatic Slovenian theatre company founded by Bojan Jablanovec) is due to be published in spring 2010.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 11 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: The Center for European Studies, CREECA, and the European Union Center of Excellence
About the lecture: This lecture will examine patterns of elite behavior in the EU's newest members, Bulgaria and Romania. Such patterns of behavior will be interpreted against the background of a broader analytical account of how and why the EU's leverage over countries aspiring for full membership structures the incentives of local elites. Recent political and institutional changes in the two countries will be depicted as a "fluctuation of stateness" which transpired when the structure of elite incentives was altered after 2007.
About the speaker: Venelin I. Ganev earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2000. After a year as a visiting assistant professor at Notre Dame University, he joined the Department of Political Science at Miami University of Ohio in 2001. Since then, he has also been a faculty associate of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. His main fields of interest are postcommunist politics, democratization studies, constitutionalism, and modern social theory. His publications have appeared in East European Constitutional Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Democracy, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Postcommunist Studies, Slavic Review and Europe-Asia Studies. He has also contributed chapters to several volumes that explore various aspects of institution-building in contemporary Europe. In 2003-4 Professor Ganev was a National Fellow at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
His first book, Preying on the State: The Transformation of Postcommunist Bulgaria, was published in June 2007 by Cornell University Press.
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 16 at 6:30 P.M.
Location: Concourse Hotel, 1 West Dayton Street
Sponsors: CREECA and Madison-Vilnius Sister Cities
About the event: The CREECA and Madison-Vilnius Sister Cities celebration of Lithuanian independence will feature a lecture
by UW-Madison history professor emeritus Alfred E. Senn titled
"Independent Lithuania." Additionally, Professor Senn will receive
a proclamation from the office of Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz
for his lifetime of service to the city of Madison and the State of Wisconsin.
The program will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
For more information, please visit http://madisonvilnius.org/
Date and Time: Thursday, February 18 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Alice D. Mortenson-Michael B. Petrovich Chair in Russian History
About the lecture: Coming Soon!
About the speaker: Allan Reid is a Professor of Russian in the Department of Culture and Language Studies at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada. He is currently the Chair of the Department and the Acting Associate Dean. Professor Reid teaches courses in Russian language, culture, and literature. He co-authored A Guide to Russian Words and Expressions That Cause Difficulties with Marina Rojavin. He wrote the book Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman. Professor Reid has also written numerous reviews, completed journal editorials and translations.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 25 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA
About the lecture: The talk will trace some of the major developments in Russian children's literature since the fall of the Soviet Union, including the collapse of the Soviet book industry in the early 1990s, the bifurcation of the children's literature market into traditional genres and new "Western" forms, the massive import of foreign literature (fantasy literature, Barbie books, sex education texts), and the subsequent development of new genres for young children and teens.
About the speaker: Andrea Lanoux, associate professor of Slavic studies at Connecticut College, received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1999. She has published books on Russian and Polish Romanticism (Od narodu do kanonu [From Nation to Canon, 2003]), gender and national identity (Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, co-edited with Helena Goscilo, 2006), as well as articles on Tolstoy´s Anna Karenina, the poet Adam Mickiewicz, Russian women writers, the Polish women´s press, plus numerous book reviews and translations. Lanoux teaches Russian language at all levels, as well as courses on Russian literature and culture. She has served on the Gender and Women´s Studies and Film Studies advisory boards, the Dean of Faculty Search Committee, the Committee on Faculty Resources, the Academic and Administrative Procedures Committee (AAPC), and the Educational Planning Committee (EPC). Most recently she has chaired the International Commons Ste
ering Committee (2007-2009) to advance international education at the College.
Date and Time: Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27 at 9:30 P.M.
Location: Memorial Union Play Circle, 800 Langdon Street
Sponsors: Wisconsin Union Directorate
About the film: Romania's selection for this year's Academy Awards, as well as a two time winner at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Police, Adjective is a dark comedy about an undercover cop who struggles with the decision whether or not to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his classmates. Filled with dry humor and irony, this film is a perfect showcase for the rising talent of new European filmmakers.
For more information about the film, please visit http://www.union.wisc.edu/wud/film_international.aspx.
For more information about the Romanian Film Festiva (March 18-20), please visit http://uwromania.rso.wisc.edu/ROFILM/.
