Reminder: ASEEES memorial (Fri., 18 Nov. at 8.00 pm in Council Room (Omni, Washington DC)

[Nancy Condee]

Dear colleagues, 

 

This is a reminder that friends, colleagues, and family of Greta Slobin
invite you to a memorial gathering at the upcoming ASEEES conference (Omni
Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC).  We will meet on Friday, 18 November at 8.00
pm in the Council Room of the Omni.  Please bring your stories, memories,
and good times to share with people who were a part of her life and her
work.  

 

We understand that Friday evening is a busy time with several conflicting
events, but we would be happy for your company; you are welcome to come and
go as your own commitments make necessary.  No need to respond; please
forward this message to others who might be interested.  Best to all, Nancy
Condee

 

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Greta Slobin, scholar of Russian modernism,  died on May 12, 2011. She was
born in wartime Orenburg, USSR, and moved back to her mother's native
Kishinev (Romania) with her father (who was from Lublin, Poland), where she
grew up. They emigrated to Poland during the brief open-border moment of
1957, and from there to the US in 1960, when her father discovered a sister
who had survived Auschwitz. 

 

Greta graduated from Wayne State University with her B.A. She received her
M.A. In Russian literature at the University of Michigan, and came to Yale
from Middletown CT, where her husband Mark, an ethnomusicologist, had found
a home at Wesleyan University. Her advisor was Victor Erlich, and she loved
the challenging, diverse, and supportive Yale Slavic Department, where she
met many lifelong friends. Greta taught briefly at Wesleyan and SUNY-Albany,
and then for seven years at Amherst College before taking a position at
University of California at Santa Cruz, from which she retired in 2001 as
Professor Emerita. In her last years, she was Visiting Professor in the
College of Letters at Wesleyan. She was also a Fellow at the Harriman
Institute at Columbia, as well as at Harvard (under an NEH fellowship). Her
core scholarship focuses on the literary and artistic work of Alexei Remizov
and Russian modernism. Recently, she was planning the publication of a set
of her collected essays about the Russian diaspora in Paris and Berlin. 

 

Prof. N. Condee, Director
Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)
University Center for International Studies
University of Pittsburgh
4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
+1 412-363-7180
condee at pitt.edu
 <http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global> www.ucis.pitt.edu/global



 


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