Celebrating St. Petersburg Lecture Series






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		CELEBRATING ST. PETERSBURG LECTURE SERIES
		The Center for Russian and East European Studies presents a series of lectures devoted to St. Petersburg-related culture and history. The lectures are free and open to the public and will also serve as resources for the Fall 2003 Celebrating St. Petersburg Theme Semester.
		THURSDAY, September 18, 2003 7:30 p.m., Chesebrough Auditorium, Chrysler Center 2121 Bonisteel Blvd., North Campus The Legacy and Myths of St. Petersburg Anatole Senkevitch, Jr. is an associate professor at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Department of Art History, where he specializes in the history and theory of Modern European and Russian architecture. His publications include a translation with introductory essay of Moisei Ginzburg's Style and Epoch and the articles "Albert Kahn in Russland," "St. Petersburg, Russia: Designing a Monumental Urban Stage Set for Imperial State Craft," and "The Sources and Ideals of Constructivism in Soviet Architecture." He is currently writing a book on the formation of a revolutionary avant-garde in Russian architecture, to be published by the MIT Press.
		THURSDAY, October 2, 2003 7:30 p.m., Alumni Center 200 Fletcher St. Literary Petersburg: From Pushkin to Brodsky Michael Makin, associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, is a specialist 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature. He is the author of Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of Appropriation (also published in Russian translation), editor of Alternative Chronicles of Russian Poetry: Essays by Mikhail Aizenberg (published as a special issue of Russian Studies in Literature), and co-editor, with Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd, of Discontinuous Discourses in Modern Russian Literature. He is currently working on a study of Nikolai Kliuev. THURSDAY, October 9, 2003 7:30 p.m., Alumni Center 200 Fletcher St. St. Petersburg: City as History William G. Rosenberg is Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. A specialist in the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, he is the author of Liberals in the Russian Revolution; co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century and Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917; and co-editor of Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization and Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution. He served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2001–02. TUESDAY, October 21, 2003 7:30 p.m., Alumni Center 200 Fletcher St. Boris Godunov and the "Time of Troubles" Valerie Kivelson, associate professor of history at the University of Michigan, works early modern Russia, political culture, witchcraft, cartography, empire, and serfdom. Her recent publications include Autocracy in the Provinces: Muscovite Political Culture and the Provincial Gentry in the Seventeenth Century and the articles "'Muscovite Citizenship': Rights without Freedom," "Cartography, Autocracy and State Powerlessness: The Uses of Maps in Early Modern Russia," and "The Souls of the Righteous in a Bright Place: Landscape and Orthodoxy in Seventeenth-Century Russian Maps." Sponsors Center for Russian and East European Studies Alumni Association of the University of Michigan For further information on this lecture series, contact: Center for Russian and East European Studies Suite 4668 School of Social Work Building 1080 S. University Ave. 734.764.0351 crees@umich.edu Photo by Jack Kollmann © 2003





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