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Topics in this special issue:

  1. Looking for a copy of a 1970s film from Czechoslovakia (2)
  2. Music question: "The Russian Song"??
  3. 27-28 February: RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA Conference at Columbia
  4. Dostoevsky video competition

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Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:37:57 +0000
From:    Rachel Leah Applebaum <rapple at UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Looking for a copy of a 1970s film from Czechoslovakia

Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to see whether anyone can help me to locate a copy of the film Píseň o stromu a růži, directed by Ladislav Rychman (1978) (in Russian, Баллада о дереве и розе). To my knowledge, the film ins't available on DVD--however I believe it has been shown on TV in the Czech Republic (and possibly Russia as well--it stars the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov) in recent years. If anyone has a copy or knows a reputable way of viewing the film online, please let me know. Please respond off the list to: Rachel.Applebaum at eui.eu<mailto:Rachel.Applebaum at eui.eu>

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Rachel Applebaum
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow
European University Institute
Florence, Italy

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Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:53:16 +0100
From:    Jan Culik <culik at BLISTY.CZ>
Subject: Re: Looking for a copy of a 1970s film from Czechoslovakia

There is a Czech website www.ulozto.cz  where you will find most Czech 
films that have ever been made. There is something related to Píseň o 
stromu a růži there and it is compressed (rar), it is only some 100 Mb, 
so I am not sure whether it is the whole film.

If you have no success in locating it there come back to me, there are 
other sources.

Jan Culik
Glasgow

  On 02/27/2014 10:37 AM, Rachel Leah Applebaum wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> I am writing to see whether anyone can help me to locate a copy of the film Píseň o stromu a růži, directed by Ladislav Rychman (1978) (in Russian, Баллада о дереве и розе). To my knowledge, the film ins't available on DVD--however I believe it has been shown on TV in the Czech Republic (and possibly Russia as well--it stars the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov) in recent years. If anyone has a copy or knows a reputable way of viewing the film online, please let me know. Please respond off the list to: Rachel.Applebaum at eui.eu<mailto:Rachel.Applebaum at eui.eu>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely,
> Rachel Applebaum
> Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow
> European University Institute
> Florence, Italy
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Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:41:26 -0500
From:    "David J. Galloway" <dgallowa at TWCNY.RR.COM>
Subject: Music question: "The Russian Song"??

Dear SEELANGers,

A music question which hopefully someone can answer. My mother-in-law
remembers her mother playing a piece entitled "The Russian Song" on the
piano years ago, and is trying to relocate it. Apparently there were no
words to the song as it was published in the US. This would have been in the
late 1940's or early 1950's. It may have come from a film. The mother who
played it was born in Russia, but the fact that there was evidently sheet
music in English makes me think this might be an American invention and not
a Russian piece, or at the very least a song modified by Americans. 

Her sister recorded what she remembers it sounding like, and I've placed the
mp3 here: 

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7Yhugbv9VDCVFYyVnQ2U0NRT1k
<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7Yhugbv9VDCVFYyVnQ2U0NRT1k&usp=sha
ring> &usp=sharing

Apologies for the quality: it was recorded on a cassette over the phone and
then digitized, thus making several passes through ancient history. 

Any assistance in identifying the piece would be most appreciated. It sounds
vaguely familiar to me, but I can't come up with anything definite. Please
send replies off-list to galloway at hws.edu. 

Thanks,

DJG

______________________________

David J. Galloway

Associate Professor

Russian Area Studies Program

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Geneva, New York 14456-3397

Phone: (315) 781-3790

Fax: (315) 781-3822

Email: galloway at hws.edu

http://www.hws.edu/academics/russian/

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Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:58:20 -0500
From:    Edward J Tyerman <ejt2115 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: 27-28 February: RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA Conference at Columbia

Dear all,

A reminder that our Russia in East Asia conference at Columbia begins *today
(Thursday 27 February) *at *6pm *in *1501 IAB:*

KEYNOTE LECTURE
*Katerina Clark *(Yale):
*"China in the Leftist Imagination of the 1920s and 1930s."*

The conference continues *tomorrow, Friday 28 February, *with a full day of
panels from 9am-6pm in *1512 IAB.*

The full program is below. We hope you will be able to join us!

Edward Tyerman (Slavic, ICLS - ejt2115 at columbia.edu)

*RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA:*

*IMAGINATION, EXCHANGE, TRAVEL, TRANSLATION*

*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27*

*International Affairs Building (IAB), Room 1501*

6:00-7:15pm *KEYNOTE LECTURE*

*Katerina Clark (Yale)*: *"China in the Leftist Imagination of the 1920s
and 1930s"*

7:15pm: Reception

*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28*

*International Affairs Building (IAB), Room 1512*

8:45am: Coffee and pastries

9:00-10:45am *PANEL 1: TRANSLATION AND INFLUENCE*

Chair: Lydia Liu (Columbia)

Kateryna Bugayevska (Tsinghua): "The Beijing Institute of Russian Language
and the Translation of Russian Literature in 20th Century China"

Mark Gamsa (Tel Aviv University): "Refractions of China in Russia and
Russia in China: Translation and Material Culture"

Mitsuyoshi Numano (University of Tokyo): "The Role of Russian Literature in
the Development of Modern Japanese Literature from the 1880s to the 1930s:
Some Remarks on its Peculiarities"

Discussant*: *Eugenia Lean (Columbia)

10:45am-11:00am: COFFEE BREAK

11:00am-12:45pm *PANEL 2:* *TOLSTOY IN EAST ASIA*

Chair: Liza Knapp (Columbia)

Xiaolu Ma (Harvard): "Transculturation of Tolstoy's Religious Humanism in
East Asia"

Susanna Lim (University of Oregon): "The Novel Moves East: A Cross-Cultural
Reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace and Park Kyoung-ni's Land"

Andrew Leong (Northwestern): "Leo Tolstoy, Arishima Takeo, and the
Russo-Japanese War"

Discussant: Paul Anderer (Columbia)

12:45pm-2:00pm: LUNCH BREAK

2:00pm-3:45pm *PANEL 3: ENCOUNTERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS*

Chair: Matt Mangold (Rutgers)

Edyta Bojanowska (Rutgers): "Prying Open Japan and Prospecting Korea:
Goncharov's *The Frigate Pallada* and the Russian Push to the Far East in
the 1850s"

Katy Sosnak (UC Berkeley): "Imbibing the Spirit of the East: Bal'mont's
Voyage to Japan"

Heekyoung Cho (U of Washington): "Aspirations for a New Literature:
Radicalizing Russian Literature in Colonial Korea"

Discussants: Charles Armstrong (Columbia), Catharine Nepomnyashchy
(Columbia)

3:45-4:00pm: BREAK

4:00-5:45pm *PANEL 4: SELF-FASHIONING ACROSS THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE BORDER*

Chair: Rebecca Stanton (Columbia)

Roy Chan (University of Oregon): "The Sovereignty of Memory: Experiential
Genres, Nonsynchronous History, and Intelligentsia Self-Fashioning in
Alexander Herzen and Ba Jin"

Zhen Zhang (UC Davis): "Socialist Intellectuals in Postsocialist China:
Deep Subjectivity in Wang Meng's *Bolshevik Salute* and Ba Jin's *Random
Thoughts*"

Edward Tyerman (Columbia): "Sino-Soviet Confessions: Sergei Tret'iakov,
"Den Shi-khua" and Biographical Allegory"

Elizabeth McGuire (Independent Scholar): "JUMP! The Personal, Professional
& Political Life of Yura Huang Jian, Sino-Soviet Sportsman and
Self-Declared Romantic"

Discussant: Rebecca Karl (NYU)

6pm: Wine and cheese reception

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Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:39:36 -0500
From:    Carol Apollonio <flath at DUKE.EDU>
Subject: Dostoevsky video competition

Video Competition: Notes from Underground

Dear Colleagues, 

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites Dostoevsky fans of any walk of life to post a YouTube video clip, no longer than two minutes, relating to Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. The best video will receive a $500 prize, a free copy of Dostoevsky Studies, a year-long membership in NADS, and a commemorative Notes from Underground refrigerator magnet.

How to enter:                                                                                                                        

·      Become a NADS Facebook friend at https://www.facebook.com/North.American.Dostoevsky.Society

·      Film your two-minute video

·      Post it on YouTube

·      Fill in and submit the application posted on the NADS Facebook page, also available at this URL:

http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/bN2oLTaf7W6i4pf3yrRhtl47

Videos should be in English or in Russian with English subtitles. No credentials necessary. Creative adaptations, mini-lectures, and performances of all kinds are welcome. Qualifying entries will be posted on the NADS Facebook page. Winners will be judged by a panel of Dostoevsky experts based on creativity, originality, and overall quality, along with the number of Facebook Likes.

Deadline for entries: April 15, 2014. 
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