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Department News
Visit our
Fall 2008 or
Spring 2009 galleries!
Congratulations
Erin Rosenkranz for winning The University of Arizona Foundation
Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award!

Time is
Blood: The Battle of Stalingrad.
May 2, 2009. 7pm in the
Ventana Room at the Memorial Student Union. A lecture by
Prof. John Garrard and Carol Garrard, authors of the book
Bones of Berdichev: The Life and fate of Vasily Grossman.
Vasily Grossman was a correspondent for the Red Army and was
witness to the Battle of Stalingrad.
Flyer available.
Arizona AATSEEL Meeting April 18, 2009. 9-1pm in EDUC
240. Contact
Lena
Shishkin for more information.
Film:
Nazi Skinheads: Hate Crime in Ukraine. April 7, 2009.
5-7pm in ILC 150. Documentary presentation by Prof John
Garrard and Carol Garrard. See full information below.
"Reading Vis(ual)-Rep(resentations):
A Methodolgy."
March 6, 2009. A graduate
mini-seminar with Connie
Wawruck-Hemmett. The talk will introduce students to the idea of
working with visual images, rather than written text. It will
deal specifically with visual text produced in the Soviet Union
in the 1920s and 1930s for and by a society that was still
battling widespread illiteracy. Neglecting these texts leaves a
huge gap in the study of the society. Visual cartoon
representations of women found in the primary Communist Youth
League newspaper, "Komsomolskaia pravda" from 1929-1936, are the
material around which the speaker has developed a methodology
that is both quantitative and qualitative, and which treats
visual text as a primary rather than a secondary means of
communication.
Humanities
Week 2009 
Nauryz
Celebration, March 11, 2009. The students of UNVR195a
are hosting a traditional Kazakh celebration, complete with a
mock wedding!
Club News
and Current Business
Join the new
Kazakhstan Club! For more
information email the club president
Saltanat Satabayeva .
The
Russian Club meets most Monday evenings in LSB
309. You can join the Russian Club
listserv by emailing
Sarah Monks.
Translation
Certification will
only be done for University-related purposes. You may leave your
documents off M-F 8am-5pm in LSB 305.
Russian
Language Tutors are available.
The
Russian Proficiency/Placement Exam
will be held in the beginning of the Fall 2008 semester in the Humanities
Computer Lab in Modern Languages room 511.
All new and continuing UA students needing to take
the exam should go to the College of Humanities Dean's Office, M
LNG 345 as soon as possible. There is a form that needs to
be processed before you take the exam. To take the exam,
you must be registered to attend the UofA in the Fall
2008 semester. All high school
students needing to take the exam, must email
Sarah Monks .
Fall 2008 Past
Events
"Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith
and Power in the New Russia"
was released October 2008.
Written by our own Professor John Garrard and Carol Garrard.
It has been published by Princeton Press.
"Panel
discussion with UA faculty women and women from Kazakhstan"
Friday, Oct 31 from 1:30-3:00 In East Asian Studies Conference
Room, Learning Services Bldg. 107
Conference for K-12 educators in
Foreign Languages:
Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence.
October 10-11, 2008.
Click on the picture to learn more about the 2007/2008
Shostakovich Festival.
Spring 2008
Speaker Events
Arizona AATSEEL
and Drama Presentation - April 19, 2008
Chekhov's one-act farce "The Bear" performed by Kenneth
Cargill, Jeremy Kraft, and Susan Sidenstricker.
Dobro Slovo nominations and graduate presentations. Please
see pictures in the gallery.
DOCUMENTARY
FILM SHOWING
“Nazi Skinheads: Hate Crime in Ukraine”
Sunday, March 30, Modern Languages Auditorium 3pm-7pm
Daniel Reynold’s documentary begins in the past but brings the
story up to the present--it includes
footage of neo-Nazi skinhead groups in
modern Zhitomir, Berdichev, and Kiev,
speaking openly to the camera about their
activities. The Zhitomir group will go
on trial for murdering a foreigner in 2008.
An opening talk by director Daniel
Reynold, a Peace Corps worker in Ukraine at the time he became
interested in the film’s subject, will be followed by an
introduction to the documentary by Drs. John and Carol Garrard.
Questions and refreshments will follow the viewing.
ANNA SENARSLAN
Co-sponsored by Russian &
Slavic Studies Department, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies Department, and the COH Office of the Dean
Tuesday,
February 12:
“Research in Azerbaijan: A Report from the Field”
12-2pm (CMES
Lecture Series; public talk) Marshall 490.
Wednesday,
February 13:
Topic: women singers of traditional Kazakh music
11-11:50 (class lecture) Chavez Bldg 109.
Anna Oldfield
Senarslan earned an MA from the UA department of Russian and
Slavic Languages
and went on to a PhD in Turkic Languages and Cultures at the
University of
Wisconsin-Madison with a specialty in the Caucasus and Central
Asia. She spent 2004-2006 as a Fulbright fellow researching
folklore in
Azerbaijan. Her
research on women poet-minstrels led to her dissertation and
forthcoming book,
Singing the Past, Calling the Future: The Women Ashiqs of
Azerbaijan. Recent
projects include translations and liner notes for
Smithsonian
Folkways Music of Central Asia volumes 4 and 6, entries in the
Encyclopedia of
Women in Islamic Cultures, and a British Library Endangered
Archive grant in
collaboration with the Azerbaijan State Archive of Sound
Recordings. She is
currently teaching Turkish/Azeri at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

ARTEMY TROITSKY
Co- sponsored by the Dept of
Russian and Slavic Studies and the COH Dean’s Office
Talks on Russian
Rock and Roll by Russia’s most famous cultural commentator
Monday, February 18: “Between
Putin and Piracy: Russian Pop and the Music Industry in the 21st
Century” (class lecture
with available seating for public) 1-1:50 in Music 146
Monday, February 18:
“Back in the USSR: the History of Soviet
Rock"
(public talk) 4-6pm in Music 146.
Tuesday,
February 19:
"Women in the World of Russian Pop"
(class
lecture with available seating for public) 4-6pm
Check back for room information.
Talks will be in English
Artemy Troitsky entered Moscow State University in the early
1970s under Brezhnev, where he became notorious for hosting
illicit discos from one of the university canteens. His
professional career continued in the same vein, with underground
assessments of the Beatles and Deep Purple in illegal
samizdat
journals. By the mid-‘80s, however, he had entered the
mainstream as editor of the Soviet Union’s most influential
music papers. Troitsky’s views grew increasingly important and,
as a consequence, he was promoted to even more noteworthy
publications as the USSR collapsed.
He famously worked at the Novaya Gazeta in the 1990s, the brave
newspaper that regularly published the work of Anna
Politkovskaya (tragically murdered last year for her reporting
on the Chechnya conflict). Disturbed and yet intrigued by the
changing nature of modern Russian journalism, he even – with
pronounced irony – accepted the position of editor at Playboy
for a short while.
The end of communism also meant the explosion of corporate TV,
and here Troitsky’s influence grew beyond the printed page. He
hosted the hugely significant media show “Programma A” that
served to promote and explain a sudden diversity of culture(s)
in the wake of state-controlled entertainment. Subsequent
projects on other stations (NTV, Rossiia, and others) have
served to keep him at the forefront of public attention today.
He is the author of six books, translated and
published all over the world; in the US he has been represented
by Faber and Faber. His most famous monograph, on the role of
rock music in the late Soviet Union, has just been republished
this summer. For Troitsky’s most recent project, a web-based
endeavor entitled “TV Click,” go to
www.tvclick.ru/channel
- and (quite fittingly) click on the
striped TV.
Past Events

Undergraduates Zak Friedman
(Mahatma Ghandi), Kevin Turousky( Vladimir Lenin),
Joel Shooster(Hugo Chavez), Julio Valdiviezo(Che
Guevara), and Dmitriy Aminov(Joseph Smith)
Student Outcomes
Document (for BA and MA students)
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