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“'Suzdal’ God-daubers,' 'Novgorodian quattrocento,' and the Russian Avant-Garde" by Irina Shevelenko
"A New Century and a New Basis for a Turkish-American Partnership"
by David C. Cuthell
Date and time: January 20 at 7:00 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706
Sponsor: Cinematheque
Director: Béla Tarr
About the film: Following the revelatory 2006 retrospective, enigmatic Hungarian master Tarr returns to the Cinematheque with his self-proclaimed final film. In 1889, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the merciless beating of a horse by a handsom cab driver, an event that is credited with triggering the philosopher’s final descent into madness. Reunited with his regular collaborators, including writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai, composer Mihaly Vig, and actress Erika Bok, (Satantango veterans all), Tarr frames the aftermath of these events in his trademark extra-long takes and high-contrast black-and-white, conjuring a spellbinding ambience at once majestic and austere.
For more about this film, check out Cinematheque's Web site at cinema.wisc.edu.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Session
Friday, January 20, 2012
206 Ingraham Hall
2-3pm: Graduate applicants
3:30-4:30pm: Undergraduate applican
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 an information session. 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.
For more information, please access the FLAS flier, or visit
http://flas.wisc.edu
Click Here to see the FLAS poster
Irina Shevelenko, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison
When: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Where: 212 University Club Building
sponsored by Institute for Research in the Humanities.
About the seminar: From the Institute for Research in the Humanities website: "At this seminar, I will present one of the case studies from my book-length project Modernism as Archaism: Nationalism and the Quest for a Modernist Aesthetic in Russia. I will explore what is arguably the most prominent example of the modernist “invention of tradition” in Russia: the discovery of old Russian icon painting and the politics of its appropriation by artistic culture of 1910s. I will outline the dramatic story of reevaluation of the tradition of icon painting, from its perception as an aesthetically negligible branch of popular industry to its construction as a foundation of Russian “high culture.” I will argue that, in particular, the politics of rhetorical and artistic appropriation of this tradition by experimental art was a culminating point in the project of reimagining the national tradition in late imperial Russia – the project in which Russian cultural elites sought to establish their traditions as independent of the “westernized” legacy of the imperial period, whose formative impact on modern Russian culture became a source of tension in the “age of nationalism.”"
David C. Cuthell, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
When: January 26, 4:00 pm
Where: Curti Lounge (5243 Humanities)
Sponsors: The Center for Turkish Studies, Madison Association of Turkish Students
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When: January 27th to 29th
Where: Memorial Union
Selected Calendar of Events:
Friday January 27th: (Dance Parties)
Saturday January 28th Morning and Afternoon: (Workshops)
Saturday January 28th Evening: (Buffet Dinner and the Legendary Folkball Dance Party)
Sunday January 29th: (Workshops)
For the full calendar of events and more information, please click here to visit the Folk Ball webpage!