OSU - Events

OSU - Slavic Department - Events

Lecture: "Waking Sleeping Beauty: Reviving a Pre-Revolutionary Ballet in Post-Soviet St. Petersburg" by Tim Scholl, Oberlin College, Wednesday, 20 April (6:30pm, 186 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd)

Tim Scholl is an Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He teaches courses in Russian language, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature, and Russian theater. His research focuses on the interrelationships between dance and poetry in Russian modernism. Dr. Scholl is author of From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernization of Ballet (Routledge, 1994). He is now at work on a monograph entitled Sleeping Beauty: A Legend in Progress .

This lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies. For more information, contact 292-8770.

Ukrainian Nights Festival, Friday-Saturday, 22-23 April

Come join us a two-day festival celebrating the new Ukraine! Listen to presentations on Ukrainian politics, culture and language! Enjoy Ukrainian films and animated cartoons! Learn egg-painting skills at our pre-Easter workshop! Learn Ukrainian folk dances with the Living Traditions Folk Ensemble ! Have a fun weekend!

SCHEDULE of EVENTS

Friday April 2, Eastern European Dance Workshop
(6:00-8:00pm, 100 Independence Hall, 1923 Neil Avenue, OSU Campus)
You don't need Larkins Gym if you know how to move to Ukrainian music! Living Traditions Folk Ensemble will perform and teach dances from Western Ukraine, Southern Poland, Eastern Slovakia. Cathy and Tom Katrenich founded the group to preserve, and to pass on to next generations, the culture of their ancestry. Cathy and Tom have extensive experience in ethnic folk dance and music. They have performed with various Slavic folk groups in the US and at the dance festivals in Europe. No previous experience is necessary. Refreshments provided.

Saturday, April 23, Ukrainian Nights Festival
(1:00-8:00pm, 100 Independence Hall, 1923 Neil Avenue, OSU Campus)

1:00pm , Opening remarks
Olia Prokopenko, Ohio State University
Dr. George Kalbouss, Ohio State University

1:15pm , Dr. Marianna Klochko, Ohio State University--Marion , "Color Me Orange: Thoughts on Ukraine, Ukrainian Elections and Ukrainians in the US"
Marianna Klochko is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at OSU-Marion. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2004, and her MA degree from Kharkiv State University in 1996. Her articles have appeared in Rationality and Society , Public Choice , and Kharkiv Sociological Readings .

1:45pm , Ukrainian Animated Cartoon Cossacks

2:00pm , Tamara Shamson , "Ukrainian Folk Art as a Reflection of the Nation's History and a Source for the National Identity"
Tamara Shamson is an art historian and researcher of folk art. She has taught courses on the history of Slavic folk art (Department of Continuing Education, OSU) and Ukrainian language and culture (Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Literatures, OSU. Before coming to the US she studied folk art history and worked as a folk-art specialist at the Art Foundation of Ukraine. Dr. Shamson has published in Dialogue , New Art Examiner , Columbus Art , Journal of the Print World , Decorativnoe Iskusstvo SSSR , Tvorchestvo , Ukraina , and Radians'ka Kultura .

2:30pm , Ukrainian Language Mini-Course
If you don't know anything about Ukraine and Ukrainian, don't despair! Graduate students from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures will help you to learn your first Ukrainian words!

3:00pm , Orysia Kulick, University of Michigan , "Testing the Limits of Coercion: Elections and Ukraine's Orange Revolution"
A recent Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine, Orysia Kulick studied the role of the opposition in Ukraine's presidential elections of 2004 and focuses on the role of youth activism in this period. She is currently finishing up her dual masters degree in Public Policy and Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan and has a BA in Political Science from Ohio State University.

4:00pm , Myroslava Mudrak, Ohio State University , Ukrainian Easter Eggs Workshop
Join us at this fun workshop just a week before the Eastern Orthodox Easter! You will learn about a century-old tradition of egg-painting from Dr. Myroslava Mudrak who is not only one of the most beloved OSU professors, but also Ukrainian!

5:00pm , Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University "Projecting Ukrainian National Identity on Screen: Ukrainian Cinema at the Crossroads"
Dr. Yurii I. Shevchuk is a lecturer in Ukrainian language and culture at Columbia University's Department of Slavic Languages, where he is also the director of the Ukrainian Film Club. He has published in the US, Canadian and Ukrainian press and on the Internet on issues concerning Ukrainian scholarship in North America, Ukrainian language, identity and culture. His most recent article, "The Bold Vision of Kira Muratova and Its Distorted Reflection in New York" ( Ukrainian Weekly , February 27, 2005), focuses on issues of cultural identity. For more information about the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University visit their website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc

6:00pm , Film Mamai (2002)
The renowned film director Oles' Sanin based this film on the Ukrainian epic. In 2003 Mamai represented Ukrainian cinematography in the "Oscar" competition in the best foreign film category. Starring Andrii Bilous, Viktoria Spesyvtseva, Nazl Seltablayeva (2002; 80 min., color, in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar with English subtitles).

This event is free and open to the public. Parking for 100 Independence Hall is available at the Neil Avenue Garage at 1807 Neil Avenue (North of 12th Avenue). The garage has hourly parking after 4pm on Friday and is open to hourly parking all day Saturday. Sponsored by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies. For more information, call 292-8770 or contact Olia Prokopenko at prokopenko.1@osu.edu
Russian National Ballet Theatre presents Swan Lake
Saturday, April 23, 7:30 p.m., Millett Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Tickets: $9 MU Student/Youth, $19 Seniors, $20 Adults

Only true love can break the evil spell that makes Odette, a swan by day and a beautiful maiden by night. Prince Siegfried must choose a wife, but will the wicked magician fool the Prince by disguising his daughter as the beautiful Odette?

Swan Lake is one of the great classical ballets with timeless popularity. This beautiful story of tragedy transcended by love and memory will be performed by the Russian National Ballet Theatre with a full orchestra. The ballet was the great composer Tchaikovsky's first experience with ballet and theatre.

Sponsored by the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. For more information, visit: http://www.fna.muohio.edu/pas/swanlake.htm