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Newsletter--Fall 2004.Pub Center for Slavic and East Euro pean Studies Fall 2004 Volume 32, Issue 1 The Ohio State University Slavic and East European Newsletter Inside This Issue: CATCO to perform Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya Director’s Notes 2 For the first time in more than three dec- pany, now in its twenty-first season. The cast of OSU Hosts Exhibition of 3 ades, Columbus will see a professional pro- Uncle Vanya includes artistic director Geoffrey Czech Theatre Design duction of Anton Chekhov’s Nelson as “Vanya” and resident classic play, Uncle Vanya . actor Jonathan Putnam as Law School Explores 4 Issues of Disputed Art The Contemporary American “Astrov.” Theatre Company (CATCO) CATCO veterans Jon Farris, Faculty/Student News 6 will present the comedy- Linda Dorff, Robin Amy Gordon, drama in the intimate Studio Mark Mann, Kerry Shanklin and CSEES Welcomes Five 8 One Theatre of the Riffe Cen- newcomer Joy Damschroder New MA Students ter, with previews beginning 1 round out the cast. Nelson is also October and the Opening at 7 Geoffrey Nelson (left) as Vanya and the director. Fall 2004 10 pm on Sunday, 3 October. Jonathan Putnam as Astrov in the Performances of Uncle Vanya Events Calendar CATCO production of Chekhov’s Written and first staged in the classic comedy-drama, Uncle Vanya , continue through Sunday, October CSEES Fall Film Series 11 1890’s, Uncle Vanya contin- playing 1-24 October 2004 . 24, 2004. Group discounts are ues to be widely produced in available as well as half-price stu- theatres all over the world. CATCO is Cen- dent “rush” tickets. To reserve seats, please call tral Ohio’s professional Equity theatre com- the box office at 614-469-0939. The Ohio State University Slavic and East European Newsletter (formerly CSEES to Host Fall Roundtable on Kosovo OSEEN) is published three times a year by the Center On Friday, 15 October at 3:30pm in room Participating scholars are divided into eleven for Slavic and East Euro- 120 of the OSU Mershon Center, CSEES will teams, which meet periodically to discuss the pean Studies (CSEES) at host a historians’ roundtable on Kosovo’s Serb progress of their work and to coordinate new Ohio State University. minority. The roundtable will feature activities. Since 2001, the Scholars’ Initiative Funded with Title VI mon- historians from both the US and the former has met in Novi Sad, Serbia (2001), Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, including Momcilo Pavlovic of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (2002), Alberta, Canada ies from the US Dept. of University of Belgrade, Tom Emmert of (2003), and Graz, Austria (2004). Education, the Slavic and Gustavus Adolphus College, Bernd Fisher of The Ohio State roundtable includes leading East European Newsletter East European Newsletter Indiana University-South Bend, Charles Ingrao researchers from the Scholars’ Initiative team is mailed free of charge to of Purdue University, and Melissa Bokovoy of devoted to analyzing the historical issues of Kos- subscribers. Please direct the University of New Mexico. ovo’s Serb minority. The team seeks to answer submission and subscrip- The above mentioned historians are mem- such questions as: To what extent were Kos- tion requests to: bers of a US Institute for Peace program ovo’s Serbs subject to discrimination and intimi- OSEEN known as the Scholars’ Initiative on the For- dation by the then-dominant Albanian majority? 303 Oxley Hall mer Yugoslavia. Made up of 235 leading aca- What, if any, disparity was there between reality 1712 Neil Ave. demic authorities from North America, West- and perception by the Serb minority? What role Columbus, OH ern Europe, and core areas of the former did media and officials play in molding these 43210-4273 Yugoslavia, the Scholars’ Initiative seeks to perceptions? What mix of motives informed Tel: 614-292-8770 bring scholars together in a cooperative envi- Serb emigration from Kosovo? [email protected] ronment in which they can examine key issues Participants in the Ohio State roundtable will concerning the break-up of Yugoslavia. discuss these and other issues on Cont’d p. 8 Page 2 Slavic and East European Newsletter From the Director On Friday October 1 CSEES is hold- Romanian, and Uzbek. We are very glad that also this year, de- ing its Fall Reception in the Faculty spite the recent changes in the university tuition accounting, Club. We hope to take this opportu- Graduate School is supporting those students by offering them nity to welcome new graduate tuition wavers. Our summer FLAS grant holders returned from students in Slavic Studies M.A. pro- studying Russian, Czech and Serbian abroad. For next summer gram and in the related departments. we would like to send at least ten OSU graduate students to We would also like to introduce two Eastern Europe for language study. faculty members: Alexander Burry, Next summer we will also be expanding our Russian language who is a new Assistant Professor in program in Tomsk. The six weeks program will stretch to eight the Department of Slavic and East weeks to give the OSU students more opportunity to explore European Languages and Litera- Siberia. Here we also wanted to express thanks to Dr. Jim tures, and Daniel Prior, who is a Kinard from Business School and to Sarah Schaefer for doing Visiting Lecturer in History specializing in Central Asia. CSEES the pioneer work in setting up the program and making sure that also welcomes Anna Goben, who is joining its office staff. it would be a success that it turned out to be. Miriam Whiting from DSEELL will be our new K-12 outreach With best wishes for a productive and enjoyable 2004-05, coordinator, thus replacing Susmita Sundaram, who is currently teaching at Kenyon College. Halina Stephan With the addition of Dr. Prior, we are strengthening our course Director offering on Central Asia. The Uzbek language course, offered last year via a distance learning arrangement with Indiana U., is continuing this year. We are also contnuing free tutoring in Uzbek, which acquaints students with the language in an infor- mal situation and may prepare them for regular classroom instruction. Kamoludin Abdullaev, who for the last two years has taught history of Central Asia at OSU, will return from Tadjiki- Slavic Department stan to teach four courses in International Studies. Welcomes New Faculty Member This fall OSU has the unique opportunity to acquaint students with Czech theatre. With the help of CSEES, Joe Brandesky Alexander Burry is joining the Department of Slavic and from OSU-Lima is teaching a course Theatre 671 “Czech Theatre and Design.” From 8 November until 3 December, the East European Languages and Literatures as an Assistant OSU Theatre Department will be hosting a remarkable exhibi- Professor this fall, after completing a Post-doctoral Fellow- tion of Czech theatre design, which includes production photos ship at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in as well as original costumes, puppets, and renderings of stage Russian literature from Northwestern University. His design. Peter Matasek from the Academy of Performing Arts in specialties are nineteenth-century Prague will be artist-in residence. He will offer workshops in literature and multi-media puppet and set design. adaptations of literary texts. He is We are also planning a symposium on Kosovo with the partici- currently working on a book on pation of historians from the US and from Belgrade, in which transpostions of Dostoevsky's participants will discuss the issues surrounding the break-up of works into opera, film, and drama. Yugoslavia. The movie series for this quarter presents feature His publications include articles on films covering the life of the Yiddish-speaking community in Dostoevsky, Venedikt Erofeev, pre-war Poland. and Sergei Prokofiev. He has also On the beginning of March we will be holding the Midwest co-translated Anna Politkovskaya's Slavic conference in the Blackwell Hotel and Conference Cen- A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya and ter. After the success last year, we have become a regular host for this event. At this point, we would like to invite the faculty and Erofeev's play Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the graduate students to send paper and panel proposals. The fac- Commander . This year he will be teaching Masterpieces of ulty is also encourage to put together undergraduate panels, Russian Literature, seminars on Tolstoy, and eighteenth- which would help us to prepare the next generation of Slavic century Russian literature. He has also taught Russian scholars. language for several years, and spent three summers This year CSEES is funding 18 FLAS grants for graduate stu- studying in Moscow and St. Petersburg. dents learning Russian, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Page 3 From Monday, 8 November to Friday, 3 December, the Ohio State University will present an fascinating exhibition entitled “Metaphor and Irony 2 : František Tröster and Contemporary Czech Theatre Design.” Presented simultaneously at three sites on campus, Metaphor and Irony 2 contains stunning ex- amples of contemporary Czech theatre including works that OSU Hosts Fall were part of the 2003 Prague Quadrennial. The exhibition in- cludes original costumes and puppets, models, scene and Exhibition of Czech costume design renderings, and production photos. Works by František Tröster, considered one of the most influential of mid- twentieth century Czech theatre designers, and Jaroslav Theatre Design Malina, past OSU guest artist, will be featured. The three exhibition sites are located at the Hopkins Hall Gallery & Corridor, the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research 8 Nov — 3 Dec 2004 Institute (Lincoln Tower) and the Snowden Gallery Historic Costume and Textile Collection (Campbell Hall-Geraldine Schottenstein Wing). Metaphor and Irony 2 , is co-curated by Helena Albertová, Vice Director, Theatre Institute, Prague and Joseph Brandesky, Professor of Theatre, OSU –Lima.
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