Russian Club Meetings and Events
For information visit Pomona's Russian Club Website at
http://www.pages.pomona.edu/~ea004747/

Lecture: Political and Economic Situation in Russia and Eastern Europe
By Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College)
Tuesday, September 11th, 6:45 to 8:00 p.m.
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
For more information call x71596

Lecture: Russian Komiks by Women
By Jose Alaniz (University of Washington, Seattle)
Thursday, September 27th, 4:15 to 5:00 p.m.
Seaver South, Room 204
For more information call x71596

Russian Tea
Claremont Russian Community Get-Together
Student stories of Spring and Summer in Russia
Food and Refreshments
Wednesday, October 10, 4:15
Seaver South, Room 204

Lecture: Walter Benjamin in Moscow
By Evgenii Bershtein (Reed College)
Wednesday, October 17th, 12 p.m to 5:00 p.m.
Oldenborg Center, Dining Room
For more information call x71596

Performance: Transformative Theater from Poland
Teatr ZAR from Wroclaw
"Gospels of Childhood": Acting, Chanting, Movement, and Song.
Wednesday, December 5th, 7 p.m.
Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College
For more information call x71596

Russian and German Holiday Get-Together
Join us to celebrate the end of the semester!
Food, drink, and good company!
Wednesday, December 10th, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Seaver House
For more information call x18942

Past Events

Pizza and a Movie
Join us to watch a Soviet classic comedy "Brilliantovaia ruka," "The Diamond Hand," in Russian with English subtitles,  over pizza and various Russian goodies.
Thursday, November 9th, 6:30 p.m.
Mason Hall, Room 212A

RUSSIA ON THE PACIFIC: OIL, GAS, and STRATEGIC SECURITY
A symposium presented by The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and co-sponsored with the Department of Economics

Tuesday, November 14,
Smith Campus Center, Room 208
170 E. 6th Street, Claremont

11:00 a.m.--noon  PEOPLES AND MIGRATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Tsuneo Akaha, Professor, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterrey Institute of International Studies
Comments by Alison Buttenheim, Lecture in Sociology, Pomona
1:00--2:00 LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Adele Barker, Professor, University of Arizona
Comments by Larissa Rudova, Associate Professor of Russian, Pomona
2:00-3:00 THE ROLE OF RUSSIAN ENERGY SUPPLY TO NEAR EAST ASIA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Judith Thornton, Professor, University of Washington
Comments by John Jurewitz, Senior Economist, Southern California Edison, and Lecturer in Economics, Pomona
3:00--4:00 SECURITY ISSUES AND STABILITY IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND NEAR EAST ASIA
David Arase, Professor of Politics, Pomona
Comments by Tsuneo Akaha

LECTURE SERIES
"BORROWED ICONS: POP CULTURE
AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN RUSSIA, EUROPE AND THE US"
Lecture 2
Transnational Romance, Terror and Heroism:
Russia in American Popular Fiction.
by Choi Chatterjee, Professor of History
California State University, Los Angeles
Friday, November 3, 12 noon--1 pm
Oldenborg Dining Hall, South Side

This talk is based on Chatterjee's recent research on American pulp fiction of the late 19th century and will explore the ways in which popular American culture viewed Russia as a site of imperial romance, the glamorous lifestyle of an entrenched elite, and possibilities of adventure in a geographical locale that allowed Americans to indulge in neo-oriental fantasies. Her lecture will address the role that American popular fiction played in both creating these alluring visions of Russia, as well as the ways in which this literature processed the various threats that Russia embodied as an incubator of revolutionary ideologies such as nihilism, populism, and anarchism that threatened the march of western modernity and capitalism.

Lecture 1
Charlie Chaplin and the Soviets
by Iuri Tsivian, Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago
Tuesday, September 26th
4:15 pm, Hahn 108

“Russian Tea”
Come listen to students’ tales of life abroad in Russia, meet the new Russian students and liaisons, and, as always, visit with old friends.
Wednesday, October 11th
4:15pm, Mason Hall Library (2nd floor)

Russian Fall Party

Karaoke
Rocker Rachel's Russian Chorus
John's Frank Sinatra impersonation
Food and Refreshments.

Friday, October 20th, Evening
Elliot Peterson's house, just South of campus

For details and directions, email Elliot Peterson