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"Twenty Years Since the Breakup of the USSR"
CREECA Faculty Roundtable Discussion
Maciej Pisarski
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Washington, DC.
Date and time: December 1 at 4:30 P.M.
Location: Pyle Center, VandeBerg Auditorium (Room 121), 702 Langdon Street Madison
Please join us for a small reception immediately following the lecture.
Sponsor: The European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE), the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)
About the speaker:
Maciej Pisarski is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC, a post he has held since August 2010. Previously, he worked as the acting director of the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. Mr. Pisarski has spent a considerable portion of his professional career working on Polish-American relations, including his work as deputy director at the Department of the Americas, political officer at the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC, and U.S. desk officer at the Foreign
Ministry in Warsaw. Before entering foreign service, he worked at the Polish Agency for Foreign Investment as a research officer. Mr. Pisarski is a graduate of Warsaw University's History Department with a specialization in 20th century Polish-Jewish relations, and of the National Academy for Public Administration in Warsaw. He is a published author in Poland on U.S.-Polish relations, and on Polish-Jewish topics.
Resources on Polish-US-EU relations:
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Rachel Brenner's talk on "The Ethics of Witnessing the Holocaust: Polish Writers' Diaries in Occupied Warsaw" has been moved to February 16th, at 4 p.m.
Date and Time: December 1st, 2011 12:30-1:45pm
Location: 2435 Social Sciences
Sponsors: the Center for Research on Gender and Women, the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, and the Feminist Seminar
About the Speaker: Professor Saxonberg is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and is an Honorary Fellow at the Center for Research on Gender and Women, UW-Madison.
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For more information call 263-2053, or email crgw@mailplus.wisc.edu
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Session
Thursday, December 1, 2011
336 Ingraham Hall
2-3pm: Undergraduate applicants
3:30-4:30pm: Graduate applicants
FLAS Fellowships are funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education to encourage area and international studies and to stimulate foreign language acquisition and fluency. Eligible languages, fellowship details, and an application are available at flas.wisc.edu
Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend one of the information sessions (a second session will be held on January 20, 2012). Separate information sessions are offered for undergraduate and graduate/professional school applicants. Graduating seniors who plan to enter a UW-Madison graduate/professional program in fall 2012 should attend a session for graduate applicants. The content of the December and January sessions will be identical.
For more information, please access the FLAS flier, or visit
http://flas.wisc.edu
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Date and Time: December 1 at 4:00 PM
Location: 5243 Humanities Building, Curti Lounge
Sponsor: Center for Turkish Studies
About the speaker:
Stephen J. A. Ward is the first James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the school’s Center for Journalism Ethics. He is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2005)and Global Journalism Ethics (2010) and co-editor of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective (2009). Dr. Ward was a reporter, war correspondent, and newsroom manager for 14 years. He covered conflicts in Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Northern Ireland.
Professor Ward's talk has been canceled for December 1st. It will be rescheduled for the Spring 2012 semester.
Date and time: December 3 at 7:00 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706
Sponsor: Cinematheque
Director: Andrei Ujica
About the film: Comprised exclusively of state-sanctioned footage, this “official” history of Romania’s most infamous
leader is a fascinating inquiry into the blinkered megalomania of those in power. Spanning 25 years
and culled from over a thousand hours of archival film - from official propaganda to Ceausescu’s home
movies - this found-footage epic is a total immersion in the dictator’s cocoon of yes-men. There is little
indication that anything is less than perfect in Ceausescu’s Romania – instead, the dictator hobnobs with
Richard Nixon, Mao Tse-Tung, and Charles de Gaulle, is serenaded by Imelda Marcos and knighted by
the Queen of England, and, most spectacularly, receives an impossibly lavish parade in North Korea, c
ourtesy of Kim Jong-Il. Autobiography functions as both a prequel and reverse shot to Ujica’s 1992
found-footage essay about Ceausescu’s overthrow, Videograms of a Revolution (codirected with Harun
Farocki).
For more about this film, check out Cinematheque's Web site at cinema.wisc.edu.
When: Saturday December 3rd and 4th, 2011
Where: Marquee Theater Union South: 1308 W Dayton St.
12/03/2011
Times:
12:30 pm "Honey"
3:00 pm "The Crossing"
12/04/2011
12:00 pm "Majority"
Date and Time: December 4 at 2:00 PM
Location: Olbrich Gardens, 3330 Atwood Ave., Madison, WI 53704
Phone: (608) 246-4550
Tickets: $1 suggested donation
About the orchestra: The Russian Folk Orchestra, now in its 14th season, is a unique ensemble performing Russian and other East-European folk music on authentic Russian instruments, balalaikas and domras. The orchestra was founded and is directed by Victor Gorodinsky.
More about the Russian Folk Orchestra can be found on their website at russorch.wisc.edu.
About the concert: This performance is part of the Olbrich Gardens Holiday Concert Series. More about the Holiday Concert Series can be found on Olbrich's website at olbrich.org/events/holidayconcert.cfm.
Date and Time: December 8 at 4:00 PM
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall
Sponsor: Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
About the roundtable discussion: On Thursday, December 8 we will round out the fall 2011 CREECA lecture series with a faculty roundtable on the topic "Twenty Years Since the End of the Soviet Union." Light refreshments will be served. Please join us for what promises to be a stimulating discussion.
Faculty Panelists:
Francine Hirsch, Associate Professor of History
Robert J. Kaiser, Professor of Geography
David McDonald, Alice D. Mortenson-Michael B. Petrovich Chair in Russian History
Andrew Reynolds, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature
Introduced and moderated by Yoi Herrera, Associate Professor of Political Science and CREECA Director
Each of the panelists will briefly discuss the changes in their respective disciplines and in their own teaching and research. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.
Saturday December 10th, 2011
Marquee Theater
Union South: 1308 W Dayton St.
3:00 pm
Wonderful Summer
directed by Ryszard Brylski (2011)
83 min, Polish with English subtitles
The plot follows the typical outline of a romantic comedy but the setting of funeral homes and cemeteries gives it a dark atmosphere. The lead character Kika has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the ghost of her dead mother. The mother visits her on a mission to make sure her daughter does not miss out on true love for the boy next door.
Sponsors: ASM, WI Experience Grant, CREECA, Anonymous Fund, Lapinski Fund
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Marquee Theater
Union South: 1308 W Dayton St.
7:00 pm
Winner
directed by Wiesław Saniewski (2011)
111min, English and Polish with English subtitles
Oliver is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off his European tournée, he is forced to repay the tour organizers 250 thousand Euros. An accidental meeting with his former math teacher and avid horse track gambler helps him find his way in life.
Sponsors: ASM, WI Experience Grant, CREECA, Anonymous Fund, Lapinski Fund
