Seminar series

The seminar series have been suspended for the academic years 2004/5 and 2005/6.

Seminar Programme 2003-4

22 October: Peter Hames (Lancaster): The Magic and the Material: the Feature Films of Jan Svankmajer

4 November: Vladimir Strukov (Voronezh): Masiania's cyberlife

12 November: Ted Braun (Bristol): Cinematic representations of the war in Bosnia

3 December: Neil Edmunds (UWE): 'Lenin is always with us': Soviet Musical Propaganda and its Composers during the 1920s

21 January: Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths): Lev Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre

4 February: John Riley (BUFVC): Holy Fools in Soviet Films

18 February: David Crowley: Memory in pieces: the symbolism of the ruin in post-war Polish culture

3 March: David Gillespie (Bath): Tarkovskii and science fiction

21 April: Sasha Dugdale (Royal Court): Contemporary Russian Drama [cancelled]

Wed 23 October: Vladimir Paperny (LA and Bristol): Architecture under Stalin

Wed 6 November: Carol Adlam (Exeter): The Frisky Pencil: The Rise of Art Criticism in Russia

Wed 4 December: Gerard McBurney: Shostakovich and the Soviet Estrada

Wed 22 January: Rosalind Polly Blakesley (Cambridge): Women Artists and Patrons in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

Wed 12 February: Brandon Taylor (Southampton): Czech Surrealism: the case of Karel Teige

Tue 25 February: Catriona Kelly (Oxford): Leader Cults for Children

Thu 27 February: Branislav Dmitrievic and Ljiljana Blagojevic (Belgrade): Belgrade Architecture

Tue 4 March: Rosamund Bartlett (Durham): Opera and the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia, 1925-1930

15/16 March: Conference on 'Stalin's Cultural Legacy'

Wed 19 March: David MacFadyen (UCLA): An Ecocritical Approach to Soviet Literature

Wed 7 May: Marina Balina (Nottingham): Soviet Fairy Tales

25 October: Stephen Lovell (Oxford): Growing Old at the Fin de Siecle: Lev Tolstoi and Ilia Mechnikov on Living and Dying

22 November: Rachel Beckles Willson (Bristol): The souls of The Three Sisters?: New Chekhov from Péter Eőtvős

1/2 December 2001: Conference on Music for Film and Theatre (Watershed)

16 January: Mike O’Mahony (Bristol): Archaeological Fantasies: Constructing History on the Moscow Metro

5 February: Philip Bullock (Oxford): Expression and concealment: aspects of the lyric voice in Tchaikovsky's songs

19 February: Mikhail Ryklin (Bristol/Moscow): Deconstructing Totalitarianism

1 March: Mr Vladimir Andreev (Russian Embassy): The Mass Media in Russia Today

7 March: Evgeny Dobrenko (Nottingham): Gossmekh: Cultural Dimensions of Laughter in Soviet Musical

15 May: Katerina Clark (Yale): Constructivism in the 1920s