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Read more at: 'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney', Prof Joan Neuberger, Tues 3 March, 5pm
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'Eisenstein's Ivan: Sensory Thinking from Machiavelli to Disney', Prof Joan Neuberger, Tues 3 March, 5pm

In Ivan the Terrible, Eisenstein tried to use everything he'd been thinking about and living through for the previous twenty years to compose his portrait of the tsar. This paper draws on his writing about Disney to show how some of his most fanciful ideas about things like fish turning into tigers were inscribed in his most serious considerations of human change, violence, power and film making itself.

Read more at: Soviet Film Series Launches on Wed 22 January, 5pm
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Soviet Film Series Launches on Wed 22 January, 5pm

What better way to end Week 1 than by coming to watch an old Soviet Classic? The Cranes Are Flying , directed by Mikhail Kalatozov in 1957 and breathtakingly shot by Sergei Urusevsky, is one of the masterpieces of Post-Stalin 'Thaw' era cinema.

Read more at: 海角社区 Polish Studies Premieres 鈥楰inoteka鈥�
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海角社区 Polish Studies Premieres 鈥楰inoteka鈥�

The Department鈥檚 Polish Studies programme launched its Polish Film Club 鈥� 鈥楰inoteka鈥�

Read more at: Rebecca Reich on 鈥楲eningrad: Siege and Symphony鈥�

Rebecca Reich on 鈥楲eningrad: Siege and Symphony鈥�

Rebecca Reich, who has just won a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship for Michaelmas 2015, published a review of Brian Moynahan鈥檚 Leningrad: Siege and Symphony in the 26 November edition of the New York Times .

Read more at: 鈥淢aking News Soviet鈥�: Talk by Dr Simon Huxtable, Tues 17 Feb, 5pm
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鈥淢aking News Soviet鈥�: Talk by Dr Simon Huxtable, Tues 17 Feb, 5pm

You are warmly invited to an upcoming Slavonic Dept/CamCREES seminar by Dr Simon Huxtable entitled: 鈥楳aking News Soviet: Changing Visions of Soviet Information after Stalin, 1953-1970鈥� to be held on Tuesday, 17 February, 5-6:30pm in the Latimer Room at Clare College.

Read more at: Join Us for the 2nd Seminar in the Soviet Mass Culture Series, 3 February, 5pm!
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Join Us for the 2nd Seminar in the Soviet Mass Culture Series, 3 February, 5pm!

You are warmly invited to an upcoming joint Dept. of Slavonic Studies-CamCREES seminar by Prof. Susan E. Reid entitled: 'Makeshift Modernity: DIY, Craft and the Virtuous 海角社区maker in New Soviet Housing of the 1960s' to be held on Tuesday, 3 February at 5-6:30pm in the Latimer Room at Clare College

Read more at: Russian & Soviet Mass Culture Seminar Series Kicks Off on Tuesday, 20 January
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Russian & Soviet Mass Culture Seminar Series Kicks Off on Tuesday, 20 January

This term the Slavonic Dept. and CamCREES are running a series of seminars spotlighting new research on Russian and Soviet mass culture. Examining a diverse range of cultural phenomena speakers will explore topics including the Russian and Soviet experience of modernity, the shifting relationship between cultural producers and consumers in late socialism, and the sensory dimensions of Soviet culture for 'the masses'.

Read more at: AHRC Doctoral Research Studentships in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture

AHRC Doctoral Research Studentships in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture

The 2015 application window is now open for AHRC studentships awarded through the CEELBAS CDT in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture.

Read more at: Students Shine in Ionesco鈥檚 Bald Prima Donna
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Students Shine in Ionesco鈥檚 Bald Prima Donna

The Department of Slavonic Studies warmly congratulates Maria Montague and Danielle Craig (who are both studying Russian and Ukrainian) for their work on a virtuosic French-language production of Eugene Ionesco鈥檚 absurdist romp The Bald Prima Donna ( La Cantatrice Chauve , 1950) at the Corpus Playroom.

Read more at: 'The Construction of Authority in Early Russian Crime Fiction': Tuesday 25 Nov, 5pm

'The Construction of Authority in Early Russian Crime Fiction': Tuesday 25 Nov, 5pm

Are you suffering from Scandi withdrawal, hoping for just one more glimpse of The Jumper ? Or perhaps you're pining after news of Season 4 in the life of a certain death defying detective? Why not expand your international detection obsession to include Russia? Come join us for a riveting installment of the Departmental-CamCREES joint lecture series by Dr Claire Whitehead on the intrigues of power, crime and detection in early Russian crime fiction!

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