- Russian Club welcomes new members
WHAT: First Russian Club meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Russian Room (Oliphant Hall, first floor)
WHY:
- hold elections and create new positions if needed
- get to know each other a little bit better (+ native speakers)
- discuss the upcoming year
- Russian Movie Night
WHAT: Russian Movie Night: The Oligarch
WHEN: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Language House, room 7
Come to enjoy Oligarch, a great film about modern-day Russia and about a newly emerged class of tycoons who build million-worth fortunes both on their intellect and on crime. Language House has a big TV, nice couches, and a comfy atmosphere.
Also enjoy a nice dinner! We will have pies with meat and spinach, P-Boy sandwiches and chicken kabobs wrapped in delicious bread pockets! And tea, of course, tea with sweets!
- TU students meet Khruschev
WHAT: Lunch with Sergei Khrushchev
WHEN: Monday, October 17, 2006, 12 p.m.
WHERE: ACAC
Sergei Khrushchev, the son of a famous Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, will have lunch with TU students on Monday, October 17th. Khrushchev, a senior research fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, has written many books and articles on engineering, computer science, history and economy. He has also published two books about his father.
At lunch, you will get a chance to meet with Mr. Khrushchev personally. The lunch will preview Khrushchev’s TU-wide lecture on Tuesday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Chapman Theater of Kendall Hall. The name of the lecture is “Poets vs. Politicians: Culture After Stalin.”
- Khrushchev speaks at TU
WHEN: Tuesday, October 17, 2005
WHERE: Kendall Hall Theater
- The poetry reading of the century
WHAT: Yevtushenko poetry reading and Shostakovich 13th Symphony
WHEN: Saturday, October 22, 2005
WHERE: Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 2000 listeners
Tulsans were treated to a spectacular night of Russia’s greatest music and poetry, both truly international. The concert opened with the performance Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, composed to Baby Yar, Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem against anti-Semitism. The symphony was performed by 70 musicians of the Signature Symphony Orchestra, a male choir, and Mikhail Svetlov, a famous bass soloist from Russia.
In the second act, poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko read selected works from different years together with his students. A living classic of Russian poetry, Yevtushenko now lives in Tulsa and teaches Poetry and European/Russian Cinema at TU as part of the Russian Studies program.
The concert was free and open to TU students and faculty.
- Gorbachev lectures in Ada
WHAT: Mikhail Gorbachev Lecture “Perestroika: 20 Years Later”
WHEN: Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 7-9 p.m. (leave Tulsa at 4:30 p.m., return to Tulsa at 11:30 p.m.)
WHERE: Ada, OK (Kerr Activity Center, East Central University of OK)
On October, 25, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will speak at East Central University in Ada, OK. Gorbachev is the last leader of the USSR and a recipient of 1990 Nobel Prize for Peace.
In his lecture named “Perestorika: 20 Years Later,” Gorbachev will discuss the famous attempt to update the stagnating Soviet system. Translated literally from Russian, “perestroika” means “rebuilding.” Undoubtedly, perestroika contributed to the demise of the USSR; but the effect of the last Soviet leader’s politics is still widely debated. You can hear the story from Gorbachev himself.
“Back in Russia, we would never imagine seeing Gorbachev live like that,” says Russian student Galina Sokolova, a currently an MBA candidate at TU. “But here I'll have the chance to be at the lecture and ask him questions!”
- TU student back from Russia!
WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2006
WHERE: Language House
WHAT: Student presentation: “Russia: Eyes Wide Open”
Presentation by TU student Somelea Jackson. After a fall semester in St. Petersburg, Somelea will share her impressions, her discoveries, and her survival stories, fresh from Russia!
- Looking at Russia's future
WHAT: lecture “Problems of Contemporary Russia: Literary and Sociopolitical Perspectives”
WHEN: Thursday, February 9, 2006, 3:30 P.M.
WHERE: Russian Room (Oliphant Hall, Rm 140)
WHO: Aleksandr Timofeev
Come to the Language House at 3:30 p.m. for a lecture with a prospective topic “Problems of Contemporary Russia: Literary and Sociopolitical Perspectives” by a Russian guest speaker Aleksandr Timofeev. Timofeev is a literary critic from the Museum of Pushkin in St. Petersburg. January through March, he is touring over 20 destinations in Oklahoma with lectures and book discussions.
- TU students savor Russian delicacies
WHAT: Visit to a Russian restaurant, A Taste of Europe
WHEN: Saturday, March 4, 2006, 5 p.m.—9:30 p.m.
WHERE: downtown Bartlesville
Do you want to treat yourself to a real Russian dinner? On the menu are Russians’ favorite pel’meni (dough dumplings with meat filling), borscht (traditional soup with beets and cabbage), kulebyaka (pasties with a variety of fillings), and other dishes. Remember, cuisine is a great part of Russian culture!
- TU hosts Russian conference
WHAT: 8th CARTA Conference, “Russian as a World Language”
WHEN: March 30--April 2
WHERE: Doubletree Hotel, Tulsa downtown
For the 8th time, over 60 participants from Oklahoma and six adjacent states will gather for the Central Association of Russian Teachers of America conference. Designed to enhance Russian Studies in the region, this annual convention was started on initiative of Russian language professor at ECU Mara Sukholutskaya.
The conference will open at the University of Tulsa’s Sharp Chapel with a reception and poetry reading by famed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Sessions will be held at Doubletree Hotel.
This conference of Russian teachers of America is a resource for a wealth of information about Russia.
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