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New ISEEES Sponsored Course in Fall 2009Geography 170. Post-Socialist Spaces, Taught by Dr. Melanie Feakins. CCN 36577, 3 units, MW 11-12:30, 575 McCone. The ‘Fall of the Wall’ in Berlin in 1989 and the USSR break-up in 1991 were events that created unfathomable chaos and inimitable circumstances for transformation of modern developed industrial societies. Using a variety of source materials (books, newspaper articles, academic articles, pictures, media representations, films, policy recommendations, ethnographic accounts) we will examine the changes that have been taking place in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union in the post-socialist period. Among the topics dealt with in the class are: territoriality and new citizenship regimes, borders and new forms of exclusion, urban transformations (memory and its destructions, creation of ‘real-estate’, new forms of intensification), urban migrations and rural desolations, property privatization programs and strategies, prostitution, and human trafficking. |
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Professor Emeritus Simon Karlinsky dies at the age of 84.
Our friend and colleague Simon Karlinsky died peacefully at home on July 5, 2009, at the age of 84. A distinguished Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, he taught in Berkeley for over thirty years. It is difficult to imagine the contemporary study of early Russian drama, Gogol', Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev, Russia's gay literature and culture, Stravinsky, Nabokov, Tsvetaeva, and the Russian emigration in general without Simon's pioneering efforts. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol; Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry; Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin; Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 (editor); Letters of Anton Chekhov. (Co-editor with Michael Henry Heim); Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought; Vladimir Zlobin, A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippius; Boris Poplavsky, Collected Works. 3 vols. (Co-editor with Anthony Olcott); The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West 1922-1972 (Co-editor with Alfred Appel, Jr.); Marina Cvetaeva: Her life and Art. He is survived by his husband, Peter Carleton. Interment will be private. |
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ISEEES Graduate Student Support Fund
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the ISEEES Graduate Student Support Fund and helped us achieve our $5000 goal by December 31, 2008. Thanks to your generous support, we qualified for a matching donation from an anonymous donor, as well as a match from the Chancellor’s Challenge program. Thus, we were able to raise over $20,000—an effective start to capitalizing this important fund that will support graduate students in our area. Please refer to our “Giving” page for this and other opportunities to show your support for ISEEES.
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Black-Leather Pragmatist
Ken Jowitt, Robson Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Berkeley and the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution was the speaker at ISEEES annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture. In his talk, he challenged the Western world to shed its outdated and simplistic view of world powers as divided into autocracies and Western-style democracies. Read more |
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