Russian and East European Studies, University of Notre Dame Calendar of Cultural Events and Lectures Fall Semester 2014
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Russian and East European Studies, University of Notre Dame Calendar of Cultural Events and Lectures Fall Semester 2014 Last updated: October 13, 2014 Saturday, September 7 – Sunday, September 8 at 1:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Festival: Ukrainian Village Festival Location: Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church, intersection of W. Superior St. and N. Oakley Blvd., Chicago, Illinois http://www.uccaillinois.org/calendar.html Two-day festival sponsored by Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church. Merchant and food vendors line our street while singers and local dance groups perform on stage. Held in the heart of Chicago’s historic Ukrainian Village neighborhood this unique, European-style festival offers entertaiment for everyone. Features are live music, costumed folk dance ensembles, a beer garden offering imported and domestic beer, and restaurants offering traditional and continental cuisine. Wednesday, September 3 at 8:00 p.m. Film: Ashes and Diamonds (directed by Andrzej Wajda) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5484 Ashes and Diamonds is set on the last day of World War II and the first day of peace seen through the eyes of Maciek, a young Polish resistance soldier. The old is rapidly mixing with the new as Nazi rule ends and a new communist regime comes to power. Should Maciek continue his combat when he wants to live a peaceful life? An iconic portrait of the dilemma of a whole generation in Poland, rooted in the literary tradition of great, tragic dramas of romanticism. Free for ND Students. Thursday, September 4 at 7:00 p.m. Concert: Paivi Ekroth, Piano Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5246 Pianist Päivi Ekroth will present a solo piano recital devoted to Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano music. Wednesday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m. Film: The Promised Land (directed by Andrzej Waidja) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5506 Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1976 Academy Awards, Andrzej Wajda’s powerful drama follows three friends — a Polish nobleman, a German, and a Jew, — who pool their resources to build a successful textile factory. But ruthless business tactics and an ill-fated affair risk both their personal and financial capital. In the vein of Dickens, Wajda’s fascinating portrait of Lodz during the birth of gritty 19th- century capitalism is also a moving tale of male friendship. Free for ND Students. Saturday, September 13 at 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Festival: 9th Annual Russian Festival Location: Holy Virgin Protection Russian Orthodox Church, 61355 CR 21, Goshen, Indiana http://www.orthodoxgoshen.org Attend the annual Russian festival in Goshen and enjoy the live dance and song performances, souvenirs, tours of the Holy Virgin Protection Russian Orthodox Church, and delicious home- cooked Russian food! Tuesday, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. Film: The Arsenal (directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5518 Commissioned by the Soviet government to produce a film celebrating the 1918 Bolshevik workers revolution, director Alexander Dovzhenko instead produced a film about the Ukrainian Civil War that turned out to be anything but an exercise in propaganda. Set in the aftermath of Word War I, a soldier returns home to Kiev to find himself at odds with the city’s authorities as he advocates for the adoption of the Soviet System. Described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as “a white hot war film,” Arsenal ranks alongside Battleship Potemkin as one of the masterpieces of Soviet silent cinema. This is a free but ticketed event. To guarantee your reservation, please pick-up your will call tickets at least 15 minutes before your event. Wednesday, September 17 at 7:00 p.m. Film: Man of Iron (directed by Andrzej Waidja) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5522 Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Man of Iron follows the labor strike in Gdansk in August 1980 that led to the formation of the Solidarity trade union. Produced quickly at the request of the workers to help support their strike using their own archival footage, the film features, future Nobel Prize Winner and Polish President Lech Wałęsa as himself, and masterfully captures the passion, tragedy and anxiety of the times. Free for ND Students. Saturday, September 20 at 8:00 p.m. Concert: South Bend Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony Location: The Morris Performing Arts Center http://www.morriscenter.org/schedule.php?id=216 The South Bend Symphony Orchestra season opens with the colorful fanfare of one of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved works, as well as American composer Samuel Barber’s famously beautiful violin concerto, performed by globally-celebrated artist Hye-Jin Kim. Wednesday, September 24 at 8:00 p.m. Film: Eroica (directed by Andrzej Munk) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5545 2 Based on a script by Jerzy Stefan Stawin´ski, Eroica draws on its author’s first-hand experience as a soldier in the September campaign against the invading German army in 1939. Imprisoned in a POW camp, Stawin´ski escaped, participated in the Warsaw Uprising, and upon its failure was returned to another POW camp. Eroica displays the futility of the armed struggle against both Germany and Russia, while questioning the idea of heroic suffering. Free for ND Students. September 25, 26, 27, and 30 Concert: Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony Location: Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=6366 Riccardo Muti begins this season’s journey through Tchaikovsky's symphonies with the powerfully dramatic Fourth. A brilliant symphony that will display the CSO’s mastery of orchestral color, its third movement features an imaginative dialogue between pizzicato strings and sprightly woodwinds. September 25 - October 25 Theater: John Doe Location: Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W Cortland St, Chicago, IL http://trapdoortheatre.com/current-season/ A modern adaptation of Stanislaw Witkiewicz’s play Madman and the Nun (1923), presented by guest artists from The Teatr Witkacy in Zakopane, Poland. Tuesday, September 30 at 6:00 p.m. Film: Hitler's Children Location: Indiana State University's University Hall auditorium in the Bayh College of Education. 401 N. 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN. Hitler had no children, but what about Goering, Hoess, and Frank? Hitler's Childrenis a unique documentary that reveals, for the first time, how descendants of Nazi officers from Hitler's inner circle deal with the burden of carrying a surname equated with terror and genocide. Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Hitler, has spent his adult life vehemently speaking out against his father and the Nazi regime. Bettina Goering, great-niece of Hitler's second in command, Hermann Goering, lives in voluntary exile in Santa Fe. Together with her brother, Bettina chose to get sterilized so as not to pass on the Goering name or blood. The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Rainer Hoess, grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess. Rainer is devoting his life to ending the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe. Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is available just east of the College of Education, between 8th and 9th Streets. Wednesday, October 1 at 8:00 p.m. Film: Mother Joan of the Angels (directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 3 http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5642 Young, virtuous exorcist Father Suryn is assigned a difficult task as he must investigate a case of demonic possession at a mysterious convent. Arriving at the nunnery, he meets its abbess, Mother Joan, and struggles against the forces of darkness to save her soul. A visually sophisticated film, Mother Joan of the Angels is a thrilling study of faith, sin and redemption. Free for ND students. Thursday, October 2 at 4:00 p.m. Guest Speaker: Ambassador Ian C. Kelly Location: DeBartolo 129 Ian C. Kelly is the Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest, based at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was most recently (from March 2010 to September 2013) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Vienna, Austria. From December 2012 to September 2013, he was concurrently the U.S. Co-Chair of the Minsk Group, the negotiating process set up to resolve the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh. From May 2009 until his appointment as ambassador, he was the Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Kelly’s previous assignments include Director of the Office of Russian Affairs in Washington, D.C., Public Affairs Advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO, Press Attaché at Embassy Rome, Press Attaché at Embassy Ankara, Information Center Director in Belgrade, and Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer in Moscow. He has also had several regional assignments that took him to all fifteen former Soviet republics. He has studied Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the State Department. He also speaks Russian. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Kelly taught Russian at Columbia University, and received his doctorate there in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1986. He also holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and a M.A. from Northwestern University. Wednesday, October 8 at 8:00 p.m. Film: Camouflage (directed by Krzysztof Zanussi ) Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=5680 The shallowness and cynicism of academia are depicted in this absurdist comedy which chronicles the volatile relationship between a young linguistics professor and his diabolical senior colleague.