The Slavic section of the German and
Slavic Department at Rice University organizes occasional lectures and
discussions on topics relevant to Central and Eastern European literatures.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Time: 12:00 noon, Faculty Club, President's
Room
Speaker: Professor Peter Barta, University
of Surrey, UK
Topic: The Discourse of Discontent:
Narrating Post-Soviet Russian Culture
Coordinator: Ewa Thompson, Research Professor
of Slavic Studies (ethomp@rice.edu)
6:00 PM, Kelly International Conference
Facility, James A. Baker III Hall
Speaker: Neal Ascherson, journalist and
author
Topic: Europe: Heir to the Ages or
Pregnant Widow?
Organizer and Coordinator: Professor
Malgorzata Dabrowska, Teaching Fellow, the Kosciuszko Foundation (Associate
Professor, University of Lodz)
This lecture is cosponsored by the James
A. Baker III Institute, Department of German and Slavic Studies, and the Polish
Institute of Houston.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
4:00 PM, 301 Sewall Hall
Afternoon lecture
Speaker: Krzysztof Zanussi, Film producer
and Professor of Communications
Silesian University
Topic: Narrating Polish Life in Transition
Coordinator: Professor Malgorzata
Dabrowska, Teaching Fellow, the Kosciuszko Foundation
The Central Europe Workshop, in association with the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice University, provides a forum for interdisciplinary and comparative discussions of Central European cultures.
Spring
2002
April 5, 2002 (Friday)
Public Lecture
Marek J. Chodakiewicz
Assistant Professor of History, Miller Center for Public Policy, University of Virginia
"Accommodation, Collaboration, Resistance in Poland, 1939-1947: A Theory of Choices and A Case Study"
7:30 PM, 309 Sewall Hall
Wine-and-cheese reception to follow
January 25, 2002 (Friday)
Public Lecture
Leonard M. Krazynski
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Houston
"Sealed Boxcars Moving East: Personal Remembrances of Soviet Russia_s deportations of Polish civilians to Siberia and Central Asia, 1939_1940"
7:30 PM, 309 Sewall Hall
Wine-and-cheese reception to follow
October 11, 2001 (Thursday), 7:30 PM
309 Sewall Hall
Lecture (co-sponsored with the Holocaust
Museum Houston)
Harold Segel, Columbia University
"The Interwar Polish Cabaret: Political Satire, Jews, and
Szmonces"
Original cabaret music and wine-and-cheese party to follow the lecture
September 18, 2001 (Thursday)
Luncheon meeting
James Bjork, Lecturer in History, Rice University
"Nations in the Parish: Catholicism and Nationalization in a German-Polish Borderland"
11:45 AM, Faculty Club (President's Room), Rice University
Seating is limited -- you must confirm via email to ethomp@rice.edu or sarmatia@rice.edu if you intend to attend.
Dutch treat
Spring
2001
April 9, 2001 (Monday), 3:00 PM, 327 Humanities Building
Lecture (co-sponsored with the History Department)
Kristina K_ntzel, University of Bremen and University of Halle, Germany
"The transformations of a provincial Russian town in the 19th century"
April 6, 2001 (Friday)
Lecture
Paul W. Knoll
Professor of History, University of Southern California
"The Jagiellonian University in the Life of 15th Century Poland"
7:30 PM, 309 Sewall Hall
This lecture is co-sponsored by Office of the President of Rice University, Central Europe Study Group, Medieval Studies Group, and the English Department.
wine-and-cheese party to follow the lecture - no confirmation needed
February 27, 2001 (Tuesday)
Luncheon meeting
Jan Rybicki, Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Rice University
" Henryk Sienkiewicz, or How to Become a Polish Writer in America"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
February 1, 2001 (Thursday)
Lecture
Donald Fanger
Harry Levine Research Professor of Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
"Russian Writers and the Slippages of History"
7:30 PM, 309 Sewall Hall
This lecture is co-sponsored by Office of the President of Rice University and the Central Europe Study Group at Rice.
refreshments will be served - no confirmation needed
Fall
2000
November 30, 2000 (Thursday)
Luncheon meeting
Maria Rubins, Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Rice University
" Moscow vs. Saint Petersburg in 19th-century French Travelogues"
11:45 AM, Faculty Club
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
November 2, 2000 (Thursday)
Luncheon meeting
Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric, Texas A & M University
"Bosnia-Hercegovina under Habsburg Rule at the End of the Nineteenth Century"
11:45 AM, Faculty Club
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
October 5, 2000 (Thursday)
Lecture
Harold B. Segel
Professor Emeritus, Slavic and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"Images of the Jew in Polish and Russian Literatures"
7:30 PM, 309 Sewall Hall
This lecture is co-sponsored by Office of the President of Rice University, Central Europe Study Group, and Holocaust Museum Houston.
refreshments will be served - no confirmation needed
Spring
2000
May 5, 2000 (Friday)
Luncheon meeting
Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf, Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs in the Polish Prime Minister's Chancellery; a Professor of Spanish and a former Polish Ambassador to Urugway and Paraguay
"Contemporary Polish Politics"
11:45 AM, Faculty Club
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
April 13, 2000 (Thursday)
Luncheon meeting and Roundtable
Olga Cooke, Texas A & M University
Harry Walsh, University of Houston
Ewa Thompson, Rice University
"Slavic Studies in Postcommunism: Educational Challenges"
Lunch: 12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
Roundtable: 1:00 PM, Faculty Club, Rice University
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
March 17, 2000 (Friday)
Lecture
Professor Zdzislaw Krasnodebski
Director, Forschungstelle Ostmitteleuropa, University of Bremen, Germany
"The Changing Social and Political Realities in Central and Eastern Europe"
7:30 PM, 110 Rayzor Hall
refreshments will be served - no confirmation needed
February 21, 2000 (Monday)
Luncheon meeting
Milan Jazbec, Minister Plenipotentiary of Slovenia in the United States
"The Diplomacies of the Small New States"
11:30 AM, Faculty Club, Card Room
Mr. Jazbec is a scholar, journalist and diplomat. His presentation will deal
with the changing realities of Central Europe where the newly formed states and
nations seek new expressions of their identity.
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu)
if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
February 3, 2000 (Thursday)
Lecture
Dr. Marcus D. Leuchter, Holocaust Museum Houston
"Reflections on the Holocaust"
7:30 PM, 110 Rayzor Hall
refreshments will be served - no confirmation needed
Fall
1999
December 9, 1999 (Thursday)
Luncheon meeting
Chester Natulewicz, Independent Scholar
"The Greek and Roman Classics in Central and Eastern Europe Today"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
A graduate of Yale University and former Assistant Dean of Yale College, Dr. Natulewicz is now retired from university teaching. His current research project is a study of the classics in the postcommunist world.
Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu) if you wish to attend. Dutch treat.
October 27, 1999 (Wednesday)
Luncheon meeting
Valery Lazarev, Lecturer in History, University of Houston
"History Textbooks in Postcommunist Russia"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
Please confirm via email to sarmatia@rice.edu or by voice mail at x4874 if you wish to attend. Owing to the necessity to reserve luncheon seats, confirmations must be received two weeks prior to the lecture.
Dutch treat.
September 24, 1999 (Friday)
Luncheon meeting
John Knasas, Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Thomas
"Lithuania Today: Major Issues"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
(please confirm via email sarmatia@rice.edu)
Dutch treat
Spring
1999
January 29, 1999
Lecture
Waclaw Mucha, Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Rice University
"Humor and Satire in Soviet Russian Literature: the Case of Mikhail Zoshchenko"
7:30 PM 110 Rayzor Hall
March 8, 1999 (Monday)
Luncheon meeting
Harry Walsh, Professor of Russian, University of Houston
"Repatriation of Prince Andrei Kurbskii" (on recent Russian fiction)
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
(please confirm via email sarmatia@rice.edu)
Dutch treat
March 22, 1999 (Monday)
Luncheon meeting
Piotr Wilczek, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, Rice University
"Cultural Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of the Upper Silesian Arts Festival"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
(please confirm via email sarmatia@rice.edu)
Dutch treat
April 23, 1999 (Friday)
Lecture
Edward Keenan, Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC & Professor of History, Harvard University
"The Lost Continent of Dnieprovia"
7:30 PM, 110 Rayzor Hall
refreshments will be served - no confirmation needed
Fall
1998
September
18, 1998
Lecture
Professor Piotr Wilczek, University of Silesia and Rice University
"Catholics and Heretics: Some Aspects of Religious Debates in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"
7:30 PM 110 Rayzor Hall
October 27, 1998
Luncheon meeting
Katya Hirvasaho, Visiting Lecturer, Rice University
"Finland in Russian Colonialist Discourse"
12:00 noon, Faculty Club, Rice University
(please confirm via email sarmatia@rice.edu)
Dutch treat
Spring
1998
February 6, 1998
Lecture
Paul Gottfried, Professor of Humanities, Elisabethtown College
"Polonophobia and Other Phobias"
7:00 p.m. Rayzor 110
April 6, 1998
Lecture
Dr. Lucja S. Cannon, Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
"Privatization in Eastern and Central Europe"
CESG Luncheon Meeting
12:00 noon
April 13, 1998 (Monday)
Luncheon meeting (brown bag), Baker College Library
Dr. Krzysztof Koehler, Jagiellonian University and Rice University
"Sarmatia, or Poland" (Dr. Koehler's documentary film and commentary)
CESG Luncheon Meeting
12:00 noon
(Contact Ewa Thompson at x4874)
May 1, 1998
Lecture
Professor Alex Kurczaba, University of Illinois-Chicago
"East Central Europe and Multiculturalism in the American Academy"
7:00 PM 110 Rayzor Hall
Fall 1997
September 26, 1997
Panel discussion
W.J. Lukaszewski, Sam Houston State University
J.R. Thompson, Rice University
"Central Europe and NATO"
7:30 p.m. Rayzor 110
October 29, 1997
Lecture
Joseph Kotarba, Department of Sociology, University of Houston
"Popular Music in Poland in the Late 1990s: Marketing Diversity"
CESG Luncheon Meeting
12:00 p.m. Brown College
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
November 14, 1997
Slide Presentation and Lecture
Danuta Batorska, Department of Art History, University of Houston
"Zofia Stryjenska (1896-1974), painter and proto-feminist"
CESG Luncheon Meeting
1:00 p.m.
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
December 5, 1997
Lecture
Maria-Regina Kecht, Director, Center for the Study of Languages, Rice University
"The Habsburg Legacy: Austria and Central Europe"
CESG Luncheon Meeting
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
Spring 1997
January 24, 1997
Lecture
Jan Tomasz Gross, New York University
"Revolution from Abroad: the Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia"
7:30 PM 110 Rayzor Hall
wine-and-cheese party to follow the lecture
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