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Georgia and the Future of US-Russian Relations
Monday, September 8, 2008
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and the Bard-West Point Exchange present a panel discussion on the conflict in Georgia and its implications for relations between the United States and Russia Free and open to the public Panel: Major Jonathan Dunn, assistant professor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Russian/Eurasian foreign officer, U.S. Army Carter Page, Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, and former deputy branch office manager, Merrill Lynch, Moscow Jonathan Becker, Dean of International Studies at Bard and author of Soviet and Russian Press Coverage of the United States: Press Politics and Identity in Transition.

Time:	7:30 pm
Location:	Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

Russian Music
Sunday, March 9, 2008
As part of our Russian Week, we are proud to present a concert this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Please join us at Bard Hall to hear Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata Op.40 ( performed by Qi Zhen Liu) and Arensky's Piano Trio, Op. 32, no 1 ( performed by Yiwen Shen, Luosha Fang and Qi Zhen liu)!

Time:	7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

Maslenitsa 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Please join us for our yearly celebration of Russian "Butter Week" (Maslenitsa), to include lots of bliny, a multfilm screening, and the burning of the chuchelo to say goodbye to winter! After our celebration we will be going to the Fisher Center to see the Bard production of the Presnyakov Brothers' play "Terrorism" at 7 p.m.

Time:	5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

Gothic Aesthetics and Gothic Morality: Challenge to Democracy?
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Lecture by Dina Khapaeva,professor of history at Smolny College, where she also serves as Associate Director for Research and director of Smolny Collegium International Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Research

Time:	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

Impostors and Regicides: Dostoevsky's Stavrogin and Shakespeare's Henry IV
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Time:	5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

"Virgil in Vyacheslav Ivanov and T.S. Eliot"
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Join us for a lecture by Yale professor Vasily Rudich.

Time:	5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

Russian Ark
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Join us for the opening of the 2007 Russian Film Series. We will be watching Sokurov's "Russian Ark" at 7:30 in Weiss Cinema

Time:	7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location:	Campus Center, Weis Cinema

"Media and Government in Contemporary Russia"
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Join us for a lecture by Ada Baskina, sociologist, journalist, and faculy member of the Moscow State University Department of Journalism.

Time:	6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

Maslenitsa 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Join us in Bard Hall, starting at 7:00, to celebrate Russian "Butter Week" with bliny, songs, and games.

Time:	7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

Russia Rising: Eurasia, The United States and the European Union
Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program cordially invites you to: The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series “Russia Rising: Eurasia, The United States and the European Union.” John Hulsman, author of Paradigm for the New World Order and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Anatol Lieven, author of The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence and co-author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation. Reservations Required: RSVP to grais@bard.edu

Time:	6:15 pm - 8:15 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street, NY, NY

St. Petersburg: An Open City
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Professor Ivan Sablin will be visiting us from Smolny College, where he teaches and writes on the architecture of St. Petersburg. The talk is sponsored by the Institution of International Liberal Education and the Russian-Eurasian Studies Program.

Time:	6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:	Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Russian Film Club
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Join us for the new cult favorite "Night Watch" (directed by Timur Bekmambetov, 2004). Refreshments to be served before the screening.

Time:	6:30 pm
Location:	Campus Center, Weis Cinema

At the Trough: Economic Politics in post-Soviet Russia
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Join us for a talk with Craig Mellow, Russian economics specialist and former Fortune correspondent in Moscow. Mr. Mellow is a leading expert on new problems in Russian economics in general and on oligarchs in particular.

Time:	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 204

The Wayfarer
Thursday, March 16, 2006 - Saturday, March 18, 2006
THE WAYFARER, by Valery Briusov, directed by Julie Rossman. This early 20th-century play by one of Russia's leading Symbolist poets juxtaposes real life and dream, human time and eternity, in a thought-provoking and sometimes disturbing way.

Time:	8:00 pm
Location:	Old Gym

Maslenitsa 2006
Thursday, March 9, 2006
It's time once again (one week late) for the Russian Butter Day (pre-Lenten) celebration! Join us for an evening of bliny, song and dance, and the beginning of the end of winter!

Time:	8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

Dostoevsky and his Family
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Natal'ya Vladimirovna Shwartz, associate of the F.M. Dostoevsky Memorial-Literary Museum in St. Petersburg, will give a presentation on "Dostoevsky and his Family." She will talk with us about the museum where she works as well as about her research into Dostoevsky's ancestors and descendants. The presentation will be in Russian. The presentation will start at 1:00. Russian Table starts at 12:30; come by early to get acquainted and have lunch!

Time:	1:00 pm
Location:	Kline, Committee Room

The Russians Are Coming: New Sounds from Moscow and St. Petersburg
Sunday, March 5, 2006
Da Capo Chamber Players David Bowlin, violin Andre Emelianoff, cello Patricia Spencer, flute Meighan Stoops, clarinet Guest Artists Elena Antonenko, soprano Lois Martin, viola World premieres: Elena Antonenko ~ Words Boris Filanovski ~ We Can't Perform It Dmitri Ryabtsev ~ Enchanted Lake II Alexander Radvilovitch ~ Pierrot's Dreams Kirill Umansky ~ Winter Landscape and Vladimir Tarnopolski ~ Impression-Expression III Note: Before the concert!! 1:00 p.m. ~ Olin 104 A roundtable discussion with the composers! "Creative Experiences of Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia!" /Open to the public and free of charge! /

Time:	3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:	Olin Hall

Guest Speaker at Russian Table
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Please join us for Russian Table today in Kline Committee Room to welcome Tatiana Alexandrovna Boborykina, professor of literature and drama at Smolny College. Tatiana Alexandrovna will talk to us about her innovative performance courses at Smolny and show us clips from recent class projects staged at the Bobrinsky Palace.

Time:	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:	Kline, Committee Room

Russian Table
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - Sunday, May 21, 2006
Meets every Tuesday. All levels of Russian are welcome to come and practice informal speaking and listening skills over lunch.

Time:	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:	Kline, Committee Room

Russian Movie Night/Party
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Join us for a screening of the 1998 film "Land of the Deaf" at 7:00 in Preston Theater. The film will be followed by a bliny party, Russian music, and games in Preston 128.

Time:	7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location:	Preston

Guggenheim Trip
Friday, December 2, 2005
The first-year Russian class will be taking a trip to see the "Russia!" exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. We will have a Russian-speaking tour guide there, to be followed by dinner at a Russian restaurant in Manhattan.

Time:	9:30 am - 8:00 pm
Location:	off campus

HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - Friday, October 21, 2005
Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and its Gagarin Center for Human Rights are organizing an International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights , to be held in St. Petersburg , Russian Federation , on October 19–21, 2005. The conference will bring together experts, scholars, activists and practitioners working at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and human rights, from around the world, including significant participation by people living with HIV/AIDS. ***Students have the chance to win a fully-sponsored trip to the conference by writing a 250-300 word essay on the topic of the importance of human rights in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Deadline for submission is Sept. 20, to mitina@bard.edu.

Location:

Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia

The Lower Depths
Saturday, October 1, 2005 - Monday, October 3, 2005
The Bard Theater Program presents Maxim Gorky's 1902 play "The Lower Depths." In 1902, Maxim Gorky, known later for his collaboration with the Bolshevik party and proto-Socialist Realist writing, was working on a dramatic formula that would both allow him to take a realistic approach to social problems and also allow room for philosophical speculation. About "The Lower Depths" he wrote, "The basic question I wanted to raise was: what is better, truth or compassion? What is needed more? Must one carry compassion to the point of resorting to lies...? This is not a subjective, but a philosophic question." Come see how Gorky works this question out in the setting of a Russian flophouse, the "lower depths" of life and truth. Performances at 7:00 p.m. 10/1 , 10/2 and 10/3 with an additional matinee on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Please call the Fisher Center Box Office at 7900 to make your reservation. This is a free performance.

Time:	7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:	Fisher Center, Theater Two

Georgian Day
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Come and learn about Georgia and the Caucasus region. From 4:00-6:00, participate in the Economic and Political Panel (Olin 102), in which the current developments in the region will be discussed. One of the issues on the agenda includes the direction Georgia has taken since the Rose Revolution in the fall of 2003 when Eduard Shevardnadze was ousted and the new government came to power. We will also talk about the strategic importance of Georgia due to its proximity to the Middle East and its role as a pathway for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, serving as an alternative route for the transport of oil from the Caspian region to Europe. Speakers include Tamar Khitarishvili of the Bard economics program, Mamuka Tsereteli, executive director of the Georgian-American Business Partnership, and Emilie Dickson of Bard's Institute for International Liberal Education. The panel will be followed by a reception in Olin atrium at 6:00 and a dance performance by the Georgian dance ensemble "The Dancing Crane" at 7:30pm in Olin auditorium. Georgia "has developed a dance tradition which rivals classic ballet in its demanding and refined technique, but which has a style all its own, containing strength, elegance and graceful movement evolved over centuries. The music, played on traditional folk instruments is based on ancient modes which help distinguish the dances as among the most beautiful in the world" (www.dancingcrane.org).

Time:	4:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location:	Olin 102, atrium, and auditorium

Russian Table
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 - Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Starting Sept. 6, join us every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 in the Committee Room at Kline to chat in Russian or about things Russian over lunch!

Time:	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location:	Kline, College Room

Who is DJ Spinoza?
Monday, May 2, 2005
A Reading with Eugene Ostashevsky Monday, May 2 at 7pm OLIN 102 Ostashevsky will read his translations of the Russian absurdist poets Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms and Nikolai Zabolotsky, as well as his own short verse play, Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza. *** Eugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, USSR in 1968, and has been a citizen of Brooklyn since 1979. Books of his poems to appear in 2005 include Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Infinite Recursor Or The Bride Of DJ Spinoza, with art by Eugene Timerman (Studioradia / Ugly Duckling Presse). He is also the editor and main translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, 1926-1941, forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. A winner of the NYFA Poetry Fellowship and the Wytter Bynner Poetry Translation Fellowship, he teaches at NYU. Sponsored by the Bard Russian Program and the Division of Languages and Literature

Time:	7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

Maslenitsa Celebration
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Join us for a traditional Russian celebration of the sun--Maslenitsa (Butter Day), the feasting before Lent. We will have a "bliny" feast, a full music and dance program, and a traditional burning of the Maslenitsa effigy.

Time:	8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location:	Bard Hall, Bard College Campus

Stalin--Dictatorship and Oligarchy
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
The talk by Oleg Khlevniuk is based on materials newly available from the Russian archives--many of them published with rare thoroughness and commitment by Yale University Press's series "Annals of Communism," executive editor: Jonathan Brent. Khlevniuk is the author of "The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror," the first comprehensive and historically accurate accouts of the Soviet labor camp system; and co-editor of "The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 19331-36," among others. His talk on Wednesday will analyze Stalin's dictatorship, its strengths and limitations, as well as the myth of the liberal opposition to it. In particular, he will talk about the emergence of the oligarchical form of government in Stalin's shadow.

Time:	7:30 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

The Logic of Democracy
Monday, January 31, 2005
Nikolay Koposov, Dr. of History at St. Petersburg State University, is the author of numerous artlcles and two books: "How Historians Think" and "Down with Cats' Massacre" (both in Russian) The latter, which is coming out in Russia this month, is a reflection on current tendencies in the Social Sciences.

Time:	7:00 pm
Location:	Olin, Room 102

An Evening with Alexander Burov
Friday, January 28, 2005
Alexander Burov, acclaimed Russian cinematographer based in St. Petersburg, will be screening his film "Father and Son" (2003, directed by Alexander Sokurov) with discussion to follow.

Time:	7:00 pm
Location:	Avery Film Center

K.I. from Crime
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
We will be making a trip into New York City to see a performance of "K.I. from Crime" at the Foundry Theatre. The acclaimed performance is based on the character of Katerina Ivanovna from Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment." It is performed in Russian and English simultaneously.

Time:	7:30 pm
Location:	Foundry Theatre, New York City

ART MINISTRY (In Art We Trust, Since We Can't Explain It)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
"The Gospel According to Alex." Presented by Conceptual Artist Alex Melamid. The Russian dissident artists Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid made a name for themselves in 1972. While living in Russia, Komar & Melamid initiated the “Sots Art” movement, the Soviet answer to Pop Art. Instead of dealing with issues of overblown consumerism and popular culture, they attacked Mother Russia’s overproduction of ideology and socialist propaganda. Some of their work was destroyed and their exhibitions closed by the government. In an attempt to escape this artistic persecution Komar & Melamid emigrated to America in 1978, where they established a studio in Manhattan. Their work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art. They were a part of the Venezia Biannual and Documenta in 1987 and 1999 respectively. Sponsored by the Human Rights Project, the Russian Studies Program, Art History Department, Department of Philosophy, the Center for Curatorial Studies, the Division of Languages and Literature, and the Institute for International Liberal Education

Time:	7:00 pm
Location:	Chapel of the Holy Innocents

PETERSBURG: Impressions of a Novel by Andrei Bely
Friday, September 10, 2004 - Saturday, September 11, 2004
A reprise of the summer 2004 performance in St. Petersburg (see details below). Russian students from Smolny College join Bard students in staging the play.

Time:	7:00 pm
Location:	Fisher Center, Theater Two

Smolny Students Visiting Bard
Saturday, August 28, 2004 - Monday, September 13, 2004
7 Russian students from Smolny College will be here from August 28-September 13 in order to participate in the Bard-Smolny theater project "Impressions of Petersburg." Please join us in welcoming them and showing them around Bard!

PETERSBURG: Impressions of a Novel by Andrei Bely
Thursday, July 8, 2004 - Friday, July 9, 2004
A joint adaptation and theater performance project by students of Bard College and Smolny College (St. Petersburg, Russia) based on the novel Petersburg by Andrei Bely With textual support/guidance by Stephanie Fleischmann and dramaturgy/ guidance by Tatiana Boborykina Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky ABOUT THE PROJECT “It is extremely difficult to adopt one system of education to another… We are pioneers,” said Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, at the Smolny Commencement in St.Petersburg. “People think more quickly than bureaucracy changes.” This project shows how quickly people can think and develop a collaboration between two colleges. Andrey Bely’s novel Petersburg was chosen as the basis for the production. The two groups of students, under the guidance of Stephanie Fleischmann (Bard College) and Tatiana Boborykina (Smolny College) started working on the project in the beginning of the spring semester, 2004. Almost every week, the groups had the opportunity to exchange their views and ideas—on Andrey Bely, as a man and a writer; on symbolism, on literary allusions of the novel, and of course, on the novel itself, via videoconferences. In these discussions we explored possible approaches to translating the novel into the language of theater. Moving in parallel, both groups evolved an outline and then started working on each particular scene. This work was discussed almost daily via on online conferencing forum. Director Dmitry Troyanovsky joined the project, and finally, the virtual collaboration between the two groups became real: the Americans arrived in St. Petersburg, and immediately the united group started readings of the script alongside theater training and rehearsals under the guidance of Troyanovsky. Indeed, we felt ourselves “pioneers” in the adaptation of a novel—one that is not just difficult, but potentially resistant to being made into a play—with students from two universities, from two different countries with different historical and cultural backgrounds, who actually speak two different languages. In fact, we all had to find—and not just metaphorically—a mutual language in which the participants of the project as well as the characters of the play would speak. In this respect the project as a whole was a challenge. We had not only to read, understand and perform the novel by Bely. In fact, on a broader scale, we had to understand (or learn to understand) ourselves and our colleagues, to feel and support each other, forming a real ensemble of creative individuals who would be at one with their partners. It’s hard to think of a better way of teaching and learning, a better way of collaboration, than the one we experienced in this project—through joint cultural activity, through art and beauty. —Tatiana Bobykrina THE PLAY In adapting Petersburg, we tried to define the themes and ideas in the novel that we wanted to reveal through our play. There of course are the questions of the past and the future; the danger of red terror and terrorism; family relations; problems of solitude, of misunderstanding, of unhappy love and nostalgia for love; and of language. Every character of the novel is searching for his/her own truth. Some, like Dostoevsky’s characters, dream of justice and freedom but are fatefully brought to murder. Some are looking for love but, instead of real people, find either dolls or masks… In the dream-like, imaginary world of Petersburg, like the mist from its marshy lands, rise tje eternal questions of Fate and Truth. In our performance we tried to reveal some of the ideas of the novel and to convey its world of shadows and light, music and poetry. What you will see is not exactly the dramatization of the novel or its adaptation for stage. It is rather our “Impressions of Petersburg.” - Tatiana Boborykina NOTE: This performance, which took place in early July in St. Petersburg, will be reprised at Bard College in early September 2004.

Time:	6:00 pm
Location:	Bobrinsky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

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