A Series of Lectures & Seminars on Realism in Russian Art & Literature (2/25/2019-4/15/2019, UCLA-UCSB).

RETURNS OF REALISM
A SERIES OF LECTURES & SEMINARS ON REALISM IN RUSSIAN ART & LITERATURE
CO-ORGANIZED BY VADIM SHNEYDER (UCLA) AND SVEN SPIEKER (UCSB)

Monday, February 25, 2-3:30 p.m. "Dostoevsky’s Details: Greasy Hair, Fractal Bodies, and the Businesswoman as Agent and Commodity." By Vadim Shneyder, UCLA
UCSB Campus, Phelps Hall 6320

Wednesday, March 13, 2-3:30 p.m. "The Audacity of Russian Realism: Painting Critically in the 19th Century." By Allison Leigh, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
UCLA Campus, Room TBA

Monday, April 15, 2-3:30 p.m. "Gorky, Socialist Realism, and the (Meta)Physics of Energy." By Petre Petrov, University of Texas at Austin
UCSB Campus, Phelps Hall 6320

Friday, May 24, 2-3:30 p.m. "Becoming Comrade Pushkin: Stalinism, Realism, and the Humanist Strategy of Mikhail Lifshitz." By Pavel Khazanov, Rutgers University
UCLA Campus, Room TBA

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies & Comparative Literature (UCSB); the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, and the Center for European and Russian Studies (UCLA)>
All events free and open to the public. For more information, email vadim@humnet.ucla.edu or spieker@gss.ucsb.edu.

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