Rutgers University CRCEES Program

[Gerald Pirog]

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

THE CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL  AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES in
collaboration with MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS presents

ARTS IN TRANSITION:  LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS IN RUSSIA, CENTRAL AND
EAST EUROPE SINCE 1989

Seminar Co-Directors: Dr. Gerald Pirog (CRCEES) and
Prof. Diane Neumaier (MGSA)
CRCEES: 172 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 ; tel:732/932-8551;
fax 732/932-1144; e-mail: seell at rci.rutgers.edu;
http://seell.rutgers.edu

1997-1998 Calendar  All programs held on TUESDAYS and open to the public
unless otherwise specified.

FALL 1997


October 21 Vera Chase (Czech Republic) with Karen von Kunes (Yale).
"Smuggling Verses: Czech Poetry Today"
Two talks and a  dialogue by a poet and a scholar on the current
literary scene in the Czech Republic
Program supported by  the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Programs in
Women s  Studies and  Slavic and East European Languages and
Literatures, and the  Rutgers Graduate Student Association
7:00, Zimmerli Museum, Kreeger Gallery

November 11 Vladimir Kolas (Belarus) Valeri Orlov (Russia)
"New Projects"
Presentation and discussion of works in video/film and 2-D and 3-D mixed
media by ArtsLink/Mason Gross Artists-in-Residence
Program supported by ArtsLink
4:30, MGSA Room 117

November 18 Semezdin Mehmedinovic(Bosnia)with Cynthia Simmons (Boston
College)
"Writing in the Former Yugoslavia after 1989"
Two talks and a dialogue by a writer and a scholar on the current
literary scene in the Balkans
Program supported by  the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Program in
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, and the  Rutgers
Graduate Student Association
1:00,  CRCEES


1997-98 Seminar Calendar    All programs held on TUESDAYS and open to
the public unless otherwise specified

SPRING 1998

January 15-March 1   "3 Penny Exhibition: 3 Installations from
Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Russia"
featuring the works of Milica Tomic (Belgrade); Savadov/Senchenko
(Kiev); and AES (Moscow),  curated by art critic Konstantin Akinsha
(Ukraine,  Woodrow  Wilson Fellow, Washington, DC)
Program supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
MSGA Galleries (for hours call: 732/932-2222)

January 27   Boris Groys (Germany)
"What is Total About Totalitarian Art?"
Russian art historian and critic lecturing on the contemporary cultural
legacy of the Soviet utopian avant-garde and socialist-realism
Program sponsored by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
Co-sponsored with Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture (CCACC)
4:30, MGSA-CBS Auditorium

January 28 (Wednesday)  Boris Groys slide-presentation on late Soviet and
recent Russian conceptualism featuring the work of Ilya Kabakov,
6:00, MGSA Room 117

February 17   "3 Penny Panel: Visual Arts Today in Russia, Central and
East Europe"
Presentations and discussion by panelists Konstantin Akinsha (Ukraine);
Bratislava Andelkovif, curator (Belgrade);  AES,  collaborative artists
(Moscow); Marek Bartelik, critic (Poland and New York, CRCEES Fellow);
Viktoria Buivid, St. Petersburg artist/photographer; Andre Kovalev,
art critic (Moscow, CRCEES  Fellow); Savadov/Senchenko, collaborative
artists (Kiev)
Reception for the Exhibition and Panel will follow
Program supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
7:00, MGSA-CSB Auditorium

February 24,
March 3, &      Fellows Luncheon and Colloquia  (By reservation only)
March 10        Noon-4:00, CRCEES

March 31   "Internet Day: Virtual Art & Actual Brunch"
(CRCEES Fellows only)
Video artist Ardele Lister (Rutgers University, MGSA) will take the
seminar on-line with several artists  sites in central and Eastern
Europe
Program supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
10:30, MGSA

April 7   Eva Kaufmann
"Women s Literature and Society in East Germany Before and After Autumn
1989"
Lecture by the German literary scholar
Program supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding
Co-sponsored by Rutgers Institute for the  Research for Women (IRW)
4:30, IRW, 27 Clifton Avenue, Douglass College Campus

April 27) (Thursday)  Adam Zagajewski (Poland) with Bozena Shallcross
(Indiana University)
"Writing in Poland After 1989"
Two talks and a dialogue by a poet/novelist and a scholar about the
current literary scene in Poland
Program supported by  the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Program in
Slavic and East
European Languages and Literatures, and the  Rutgers Graduate Student
Association
7:00, Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library College Avenue
Campus