Lecture at VCU

[gina kovarsky]

Dear SEELANGers,

Please note and circulate the following (of special interest to those
within driving distance of Richmond, Virginia).
Thanks!
Gina Kovarsky

The Department of Foreign Languages and the University Honors Program at

Virginia Commonwealth University announce a lecture by
HELENA GOSCILO, Professor of Slavic Studies, University Center for
International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.  She will speak
on the topic of
"CULTURAL IDENTITY IN POST-SOVIET SOCIETY."

DATE:  Thursday, March 8, 2001
PLACE: Commonwealth Ballroom B, Virginia Commonwealth University Student

Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.
TIME: 7:30-9:00 p.m.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Prof. Goscilo will also meet with students and faculty in Commonwealth
Ballroom A of the Student Commons on the afternoon of March 8
(3.30-4.30p.m.). All are invited.

An internationally known scholar of Slavic languages, literatures, and
cultures, Helena Goscilo has done pioneering work in Russian cultural
studies and feminist criticism.  Professor Goscilo is the author of
ground-breaking publications treating women's writing and ideas of
gender in Russia, including Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood Before and
After
Glasnost and The Explosive World of Tatyana N. Tolstaya's Fiction. Her
translations, anthologies, and scholarship have played a central role in
making contemporary Russian fiction accessible to English-speaking
readers.

This series is supported by the University Honors Program through an
endowment established by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.   For more information about this and other events in the
series call (804) 278-0187 or visit us on the Web:
www.fln.vcu.edu/dept/dept.html.

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