Culture in Transition -- Official Announcement (Revised)

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

I would like to formally announce the opening of the Culture in Transition: A
Search For Identity Through the Arts in Post-Soviet Russia website at:

Culture in Transition
http://www.websher.net/yale/rl/cultureintransition/

This site consists of papers delivered at an international conference at Yale
University on April 11-13, 2003, sponsored by an Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke
Kempf Fund at Yale. Rita Lipson was the recipient of the Grant. The papers are
available in their entirety online in both English and Russian. The
participants of the Yale International Conference represent art critics,
philologists, literary scholars, art historians, historians and creative
intellectuals from Russia.  Their work has been concerned with the individual
phenomena and features of the search for identity as reflected in Russian
literature, the visual and performing arts, education and media at the turn of
the 21st century.

This site is also available as a bilingual book edited by Rita Lipson and
published by the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (Fall,2006).
The publication of the book was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Mass
Media of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Culture and
Cinematography and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA).

The printed book includes most but not all of the papers available online and
some of the papers were substantially edited or omitted.

Finally, we would like to express our condolences to the family of Galina
Andreevna Belaia (1932-2004), who attended the conference despite her serious
medical condition. She was a recognized scholar and mentor to many generations
of young scholars, a unique person and unforgettable friend. Galina Belaya
passed away before the book was published. CULTURE IN TRANSITION is dedicated
to her memory.

NOTE: Culture in Transition is copyrighted in the name of Rita Lipson. These
papers are available for EDUCATIONAL USE only.

Yours,

Benjamin Sher
Russian Translator

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Sher's Russian Web
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Benjamin Sher
sher07 at mindspring.com

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