Kinoklub in Edinburgh
TSAR / ЦАРЬ
Tuesday 22 May, 6pm
Filmhouse cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh
KinoKlub is expanding! Academia Rossica have joined forces with Edinburgh University's Princess Dashkova Centre and the Filmhouse cinema to bring regular screenings of Russian films to Edinburgh.
KinoKlub's first Scottish screening will be multi-award winning director Pavel Lungin's historical drama TSAR, telling the violent but fascinating story of the moral conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the Metropolitan Filipp.Russia in the 1560s is in the grip of chaos. Ivan the Terrible believes he’s on a holy mission and that his orders come straight from God. He demands absolute power over his people and will destroy anyone who opposes him. In an attempt to keep a close leash on things, Ivan appoints old friend and scholar, Filipp, to be the head of the Orthodox Church. Filipp’s honesty places him at odds with Ivan, as he dares to question his authority, going so far as to ask the Tsar to renounce his policies of terror: public executions, torture, and land confiscation.
At the centre of Tsar is the clash between two powerful men, an ideal acting vehicle for two of Russia’s seminal actors, Pyotr Mamonov as Tsar Ivan and Oleg Yankovsky as Filipp. This was Yankovsky’s 71st and final film role; he died in May 2009.
Tsar does not purport to be a historical overview of Ivan’s reign, but focuses instead on internal struggles closer to the throne – issues of duty, friendship, loyalty, power, paranoia, fanaticism, and madness.
LATE ADDITION The screening will be introduced by Dr Andrei Rogatchevski, Russian Programme Director at the University of Glasgow, who will also lead a short discussion after the screening on issues raised by the film.
http://www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/tsar/
Time: Thursday 3 May 2012, 5:15pm
Venue: Conference Room (Ground Floor), The Princess Dashkova Russian
Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
Talk by Dr Michelle Lamarche Marrese (University of Münster):
I AM THE PRISONER OF FRIENDSHIP... (Ekaterina Dashkova)
The talk explores the role of female friendship in the life of
Princess Dashkova within the wider European and American context of
the significance of affective ties among women in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries. It seeks to explain the relative
absence of --romantic-- friendship among Russian noblewomen, in
contrast to their European contemporaries, and why Dashkova deviated
from the pattern of her Russian counterparts. It also examines the
limits of female patronage networks during the era of female rule,
which historians have depicted as an era of women?s predominance at
court, and whether Dashkova proved the exception to this rule.
Michelle Lamarche Marrese is the author of A Woman s Kingdom:
Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 and
numerous articles on gender and Russian noble culture. She has taught
at the University of Delaware, the University of Toronto, Northwestern
University, and the University of Münster (Germany), and is the
recipient of numerous fellowships, including grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation. She is
currently working on a biography of Princess E.R. Dashkova and a
social and political history of noblewomen at the Russian court,
titled Queen of Spades: Princess Dashkova and the Politics of Gender
in the Era of Female Rule.
Following the first Negotiating Ideologies conference in 2010, we are pleased to announce a second one-day conference for postgraduates in the field of Russian Studies, to be held at the Princess Dashkova Centre, University of Edinburgh, on the 5th of October, 2012.
This interdisciplinary conference will examine ideological production in Russian language and culture through the multiple tools of inclusion and exclusion. By bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds within the broad field of Russian studies, we hope to take advantage of different disciplinary perspectives on practices of inclusion and exclusion. Papers are invited from researchers in areas such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, culture, history, and translation.
The conference will address aspects such as:
- The working of discourses to construct in and out groups
- Discourses of racism and other forms of discrimination
- Language policy in Russia
- The place of the Russian language outside Russia
- Cultural means of creating inclusion and exclusion
- Inclusion and exclusion in translation
- Inclusion and exclusion in a historical perspective
- Memory studies: 'remembering' or 'forgetting' aspects of the past
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from current postgraduates by the closing date of 1st May 2012. Please submit short abstracts (up to 300 words) and details of institutional affiliation to the organisers at russianstudiesconference@gmail.com.
We will be able to provide some assistance with travel expenses for speakers
coming from outside Scotland.
Negotiating Ideologies II: Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Language and
Culture
Second Call for Papers
Following the first Negotiating Ideologies conference in 2010, we are
pleased to announce a second one-day conference for postgraduates in the
field of Russian Studies, to be held at the Princess Dashkova Centre,
University of Edinburgh, on the 5th of October, 2012.
This interdisciplinary conference will examine ideological production in
Russian language and culture through the multiple tools of inclusion and
exclusion. By bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds within the
broad field of Russian studies, we hope to take advantage of different
disciplinary perspectives on practices of inclusion and exclusion. Panels
are invited from researchers in areas such as sociolinguistics, discourse
analysis, culture, history, and translation.
The conference will address aspects such as:
- The working of discourses to construct in and out groups.
- Discourses of racism and other forms of discrimination.
- Language policy in Russia.
- The place of the Russian language outside Russia.
- Cultural means of creating inclusion and exclusion.
- Inclusion and exclusion in translation.
- Inclusion and exclusion in a historical perspective.
- Memory studies: "remembering" or "forgetting" aspects of the past.
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited from current postgraduates by the
closing date of 1 May 2012. Please submit short abstracts (up to 300 words)
and details of institutional affiliation to the organisers at
russianstudiesconference@gmail.com
Some assistance with speakers' travel expenses may be available- this is
dependent on funding.
Organising committee:
Ekaterina Popova
Elena Moore
Samantha Sherry
