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SLAVIC 104N: Chernobyl in Media and Popular Culture

The course will introduce students to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster through the history of the late Soviet utopian project of the "atomic cities" to the intellectual, aesthetic, and artistic responses that the Chernobyl catastrophe generated in the post-Soviet Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian societies. During the course, we will study environmental, social, and ecological consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and analyze its many representations of Chernobyl in fictional, cinematographic, oral histories, map projects, VR, photography, and other media in order to understand how the disaster resonates across space and time. We will consider such issues as urban and technological utopias of the late Soviet Union, representations of the disaster; ethics; health and disease; the body and its deconstruction; ecology and climate; the appropriation of disaster narratives and disaster tourism; the media and cover-ups; and faith and religion.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

SLAVIC 140: The Other Europe: Literature from East Central Europe (SLAVIC 340A)

East Central Europe, both despite and because of its history of shape-shifting borders, has long been the locus of extraordinarily diverse humanity. There are few other regions where so many ethnicities, languages, and religions exist side by side -- or even closer than that -- with one another. It is also a region carved and re-carved into subject pieces by empires: Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian before World War I, violently torn between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, and forcibly coerced into a Bloc until the last decade of the 20th century. Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz asserted that "the most striking feature in Central European literature is its awareness of history": of history's somehow coexistent inexorability and caprice, and of its capacity for a full spectrum of absurdity, from tragic to banal to comic. This course will introduce works in translation by 20th- and 21st-century East Central European writers (Tokarczuk, Ugresic, Kassabova, Knezevic, and others) -- supplemented with selections from film, visual art, and music -- and consider how these creative works respond to the complexities of the region¿s history, cultural diversity, and individual and collective identities.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5

SLAVIC 145: Survey of Russian Literature: The Age of Experiment (SLAVIC 345E)

This course discusses the transition from predominately poetic to predominately prosaic creativity in the Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century Russian literature and the birth of the great Russian novel. It is focused on the peculiarities of poetics and narrative style in the literary works of three towering figures of the period in question - Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nikolai Gogol -- and examines the changes in the Russian literary scene affected by them. An emphasis is placed on close reading of literary texts and analysis of literary techniques employed in them. We will discuss the various approaches and possibilities in presenting authorial positions and characterization in literature; ways of experimenting with narrative and playing with the reader; the creation of the historical and psychological novel and the use of different narrative devices for diverse artistic purposes. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II

SLAVIC 181: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, ENGLISH 81, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81)

Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel Cusk, William Shakespeare, and Samuel Beckett, plus thinkers like Nehamas, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Plato, and Sartre. We'll also ask whether a disenchanted world can be re-enchanted; when, if ever, the truth stops being the most important thing; why we sometimes choose to read sad stories; whether we ever love someone for who they are; who could possibly want to live their same life over and over again; what it takes to make ourselves fully moral; whether it's ever good to be conflicted; how we can pull ourselves together; and how we can take ourselves apart. (This is the required gateway course for the Philosophy and Literature major tracks. Majors should register in their home department.)
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II

SLAVIC 199: Individual Work for Undergraduates

Open to Russian majors or students working on special projects. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit

SLAVIC 204: Politics of Identity in Ukraine

This course will examine various aspects of the politics of identity in Ukraine before and during Russia's invasion of the country. It will explore how the state and non-state actors such as media, businesses, churches and NGOs have molded citizens' ethnonational, linguo-cultural, social, local/regional, and other identities. At the heart of analysis will be the politics of language and their relation to ethnonational identity and power relations, the former prioritizing Ukrainian and the latter often giving advantage to Russian. At the same time, the course will also examine the politics of ethnicity, citizenship, memory, religion, and foreign policy. We will discuss legislation, political statements, media materials, protest campaign slogans, urban landscape tokens, and other textual and visual representations of certain policies asserting certain identities. We will learn how these practices constructed Ukraine as different from Russia and how the latter's attempt to impose - politically, culturally, and militarily ¿ the similarity of the two peoples ultimately led Ukrainians to embrace a more radically anti-Russian identity.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

SLAVIC 302: The Geography of Yiddish Literature (JEWISHST 302)

How does location matter for Yiddish creativity? This class looks at descriptions of places in Yiddish poetry and prose. It compares the Yiddish writing produced in Russia (and the Soviet Union), Poland, Israel/Palestine, and North America. If students want, more places can be added. For students with at least some knowledge of Yiddish; readings in Yiddish and English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: Safran, G. (PI)

SLAVIC 332: The Burden of Memory: Theory, Texts, Politics

This course explores the growing field of memory studies and various modes of memory-forgetting in the post-Soviet society and culture. The 'memory boom' in post-1991 Russia and Easter Europe has significantly altered the way the post-socialist subjects remember, forget, or imagine their Soviet legacy. The course proposes a critical appraisal of memory studies as an opportunity for engaging in a genuine interdisciplinary endeavor. It starts by defining the field of research at the intersection of history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory and examines the emergence of 'memory' as an object of study within these disciplines. In the second part of the course, we will study literary representation of memory and forgetting through the concepts of post-memory, second-generation memory, memory of eye-witnesses and perpetrators, memory of the displaced persons, and amnesia and memory loss fiction. And finally, we will engage in comparing the social practices of selective remembering and forgetting of the memory of the WWII and Soviet legacy in present-day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Ilchuk, Y. (PI)

SLAVIC 340A: The Other Europe: Literature from East Central Europe (SLAVIC 140)

East Central Europe, both despite and because of its history of shape-shifting borders, has long been the locus of extraordinarily diverse humanity. There are few other regions where so many ethnicities, languages, and religions exist side by side -- or even closer than that -- with one another. It is also a region carved and re-carved into subject pieces by empires: Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian before World War I, violently torn between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, and forcibly coerced into a Bloc until the last decade of the 20th century. Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz asserted that "the most striking feature in Central European literature is its awareness of history": of history's somehow coexistent inexorability and caprice, and of its capacity for a full spectrum of absurdity, from tragic to banal to comic. This course will introduce works in translation by 20th- and 21st-century East Central European writers (Tokarczuk, Ugresic, Kassabova, Knezevic, and others) -- supplemented with selections from film, visual art, and music -- and consider how these creative works respond to the complexities of the region¿s history, cultural diversity, and individual and collective identities.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5

SLAVIC 345E: Survey of Russian Literature: The Age of Experiment (SLAVIC 145)

This course discusses the transition from predominately poetic to predominately prosaic creativity in the Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century Russian literature and the birth of the great Russian novel. It is focused on the peculiarities of poetics and narrative style in the literary works of three towering figures of the period in question - Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nikolai Gogol -- and examines the changes in the Russian literary scene affected by them. An emphasis is placed on close reading of literary texts and analysis of literary techniques employed in them. We will discuss the various approaches and possibilities in presenting authorial positions and characterization in literature; ways of experimenting with narrative and playing with the reader; the creation of the historical and psychological novel and the use of different narrative devices for diverse artistic purposes. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
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