A JOURNEY THROUGH RUSSIAN CULTURE, October 1st - December 17th, 2007
A series of 12 lectures introducing various aspects of Russian Culture, hosted by leading academics and EdmissionsUK
Every Monday 5.30pm - 6.30pm • October 1st - December 17th, 2007
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London
Course Fee: £100, a 15% discount is available for Go Russia customers, please quote Go Russia when booking. For booking please contact the course arranger at Mari@edmissionuk.co.uk or 07899 083498
Riddles, mysteries and enigmas: why Russian culture is different. Professor Andrew Jameson
Monday October 8th:
Are the Russians European?: Eastern and Western elements in Russian Culture. Professor Andrew Jameson
Monday October 15th:
The Golden Age of Russian Music Dr Marina Frolova-Walker
Monday October 22nd:
Soviet Music and Beyond Dr Marina Frolova-Walker
Monday October 29th:
Wonders of Russian art and architecture: Kremlin to constructivism. Ms Tatiana Degtyareva
Monday November 5th:
Wonders of Russian art and architecture: icon to avant-garde. Ms Tatiana Degtyareva
Monday November 12th:
Russian Philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day: traits, teachings, thinkers. Dr Juliana Dresvina
Monday November 19th:
Religious Russia: Almighty Orthodoxy or thriving diversity? Dr Juliana Dresvina
Monday November 26th:
Pushkin and the development of Russian poetry Dr Anat Vernitski
Monday December 3rd:
The classic Russian Novel Dr Anat Vernitski
Monday December 10th:
Staging Plays in Russia before the Revolution Dr Nick Worrall
Monday December 17th:
Staging Plays in Russia after the Revolution Dr Nick Worrall
Tutor Profiles:
Andrew Jameson started Russian working with signals intelligence in Berlin in the sixties, then graduated from Oxford and was the chief linguist in the Russian Department at Lancaster. He has a lifelong involvement in Adult Education. Now retired, he is on the national committee for Russian teaching, Reviews Editor of the journal Rusistika, and lectures freelance on Russian language and culture. He works as a translator and teaches regularly in St Petersburg and Moscow.
Marina Frolova-Walker is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. She studied musicology at the Moscow Conservatoire, finally receiving her doctorate in 1994. Before coming to Cambridge, she taught at the Moscow Conservatoire College, the University of Ulster, Goldsmiths' College London and University of Southampton. She has published articles in The Cambridge Opera Journal and the Journal of the American Musicological Society, as well as contributed some of the Russian entries in the Revised New Grove. She is currently writing Russia: Music and Nation, commissioned by the Yale University Press.
Tatiana Degtyareva is an art historian from Saint-Petersburg. After graduating from the Academy of Arts, Tanya lectured for about twenty years before moving to the UK. Previously she ran museum seminars at the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the National Gallery in London. Tatiana has also taught Russian culture for international students in Russia. She is currently completing her PhD.
Juliana Dresvina, currently at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduated from Moscow State University as a medieval historian before moving to Oxford and then Cambridge University, where she was awarded a PhD in Faculty of English. Recently, Juliana has been assisting Professor Richard Marks (University of York) in his research of the famous Vladimirskaya Mother of God icon. She is also preparing a new edition of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love to be published next year accompanied by the first ever Russian translation (by Juliana), with a preface by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.
Anat Vernitski was born in Jerusalem in a multicultural family, and studied Russian and English literature and history. Her PhD thesis was on Nabokov's Russian prose. She has published more than 20 scholarly papers on Russian literature (especially 19th and early 20th century) and cinema and on Anglo-Russian relations. Anat is a member of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies. She taught Russian literature, culture and history at UCL, University of Essex, University of Surrey and University of Cambridge Continuing Education.
Nick Worrall is a former Principal Lecturer in Drama, with particular emphasis on Russian and Soviet drama and theatre. He is the author of several books, including works on Mayakovsky, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Soviet theatre directors and the Moscow Art Theatre. Nick has also published on Meyerhold, Stanislavski and is a regular reviewer for leading journals such as the Slavonic and East European Review, Slavonic Review and Slavonica.
About EdmissionUK:
EdmissionUK (http://www.edmissionuk.co.uk) is a specialist International Higher Education and Cultural Consultancy. We run workshops in schools training staff on UK University Admissions (which have included the British Council in , AmericanSchoolin Londonand the French Lycee in London) and assist students from a wide range of countries and of various ages (including postgraduate and mature students)
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