Spring 2021: Flagship and Russian Area Studies Events

1. General information from the UCLA Career Center

    UCLA Career Center: www.career.ucla.edu     

    Humanities Career panels: https://humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/ (https: //humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/)

  • Wednesday, April 14, 4:00 pm PST: Inspiring Minds: Inside Careers in Education (https: //humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/inspiring-minds-inside-careers-in-education/) 
  • Tuesday, May 4, 4:00 pm PST: Bruins and Big Data: Inside Careers in Data Science for North Campus Majors (https: //humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/bruins-and-big-data-inside-careers-in-data-science-for-north-campus-majors/)

 

2. Internships and scholarships

  • Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (for 2021-2022 juniors and seniors, well funded; application due June 21): http://hass.ugresearch.ucla.edu/scholarships/ursp/ (http: //hass.ugresearch.ucla.edu/scholarships/ursp/)
  • Burkle International Center internship information (unpaid, due May 3): https://international.ucla.edu/burkle/internships/ (https: //international.ucla.edu/burkle/internships/)
  • Wende Museum of the Cold War intern application (unpaid, due April 23): https://wendemuseum.org/about-us/opportunities (https: //wendemuseum.org/about-us/opportunities)

 

3. UCLA events

  • Friday, April 9, 6:00pm PST: Conversation with Russian Flagship Alumna, Melissa Miller '19, RSVP here (https: //international.ucla.edu/russianflagship/event/14994)

  • Saturday, April 24, all day: Undergraduate Conference on Slavic & East/Central European Studies, (Link (https: //slavic.ucla.edu/conference/uc-undergraduate-conference/)) 
    Organizers: Yana Demeshko, Cooper Lynn, Peter Winsky; Faculty advisor: Susan Kresin, RussianFlagship@international.ucla.edu 

 

4. Other Zoomed events relating to Russian area studies 

  • Thursday, April 1, 7:00-9:00am PST: Reappraising the "Wild" 90s in Russia: Looking Back After 30 Years (Link (https: //www.wilsoncenter.org/event/reappraising-wild-90s-russia-looking-back-after-30-years))

  • Friday, April 2, 12 pm PST: Transformations: The Cold War of Poetry & Protest (Link (https: //www.wendemuseum.org/programs/transformations-cold-war-poetry-protest))
  • Saturday, April 3, 8:00-9:00am PST: SRAS Language Workshop: Russian through Advertisements (Link (https: //sras.heiapply.com/application/booking))
  • Tuesday, April 6, 9:30am-11:00am PST: The Use and Abuse of Soviet History in Putin's Russia (Link (https: //daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/use-and-abuse-soviet-history-putins-russia))
  • Tuesday, April 6, 4:00pm PST: The Post-human As The New Other: Cyborgs, Fembots, And Androids In Russian Television Series (Link (https: //harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-post-human-new-other-cyborgs-fembots-and-androids-russian-television-series)) 
  • Tuesday, April 6, 7:00-8:30am PST: Ukraine’s Economic Development: A 30-Year History (Link (https: //www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ukraines-economic-development-30-year-history))
  • Wednesday, April 7, 12:00pm PST: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain (Link (https: //www.wendemuseum.org/programs/open-space-radical-women-artists-behind-iron-curtain%C2%A0))
  • Thursday, April 8, 10:00am PST: Roundtable Discussion: Crimea: Embattled Homeland, Suspended Lives (Link (https: //creeca.wisc.edu/event/roundtable-discussion-crimea-embattled-homeland-suspended-lives/))
  • Monday, April 12, 9:30–10:30am PST: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Link (https: //daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/nuclear-folly-history-cuban-missile-crisis))
  • Wednesday, April 14, 12:00pm PST: Futurist Spaces: The Struggle for the Post-Cold War Imagination (Link (https: //www.wendemuseum.org/programs/futurist-spaces-struggle-post-cold-war-imagination))
  • Thursday, April 15, 11:00am PST: Russia's Worlds: The Second World War And The Postwar Settlement (Link (https: //harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-russias-worlds-second-world-war-and-postwar-settlement)) 
  • Thursday, April 15, 1:00pm-2:15pm PST: Calling the Future: What Names in Russian and East European Science Fiction Reveal (Link (https: //creeca.wisc.edu/event/creeca-lecture-forrester/)) 
  • Saturday, April 17, 8:00-9:00am PST: SRAS Live Stream Excursion to Red Square (Link (https: //sras.heiapply.com/application/booking))
  • Wednesday, April 21,10:00am PST: China, Russia, and the Global Politics of COVID-19 Vaccines (Link (https: //ceeres.uchicago.edu/news/china-russia-and-global-politics-covid-19-vaccines))
  • Thursday, April 22, 1:00pm-2:15pm PST: Technological Solutions for Complex Problems: Emerging Electronic Surveillance Regimes in Eurasian Cities (Link (https: //creeca.wisc.edu/event/creeca-lecture-marat/))
  • Thursday, April 29, 9:30–10:30am PST: The Evolution of Environmental Activism in Russia (Link (https: //daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/evolution-environmental-activism-russia))
  • Thursday, April 29, 1:00pm-2:15pm PST: Eurasian Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: Between Fact and Fear (Link (https: //creeca.wisc.edu/event/creeca-lecture-schenk/))
  • Thursday, April 29, 5:00-7:00pm PST: Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Link (https: //events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/iseees.html?event_ID=137630))
  • Friday, April 30, 12:00 - 1:15pm PST: Plots Against Russia: The Uses of Conspiracy After the Soviet Collapse (Link (https: //creees.stanford.edu/events/plots-against-russia-uses-conspiracy-after-soviet-collapse)) 
  • Saturday, May 1, 7:00-8:00am PST: SRAS Live Stream Excursion: Spring and Easter Traditions (Link (https: //sras.heiapply.com/application/booking))
  • Saturday, May 1, 3:00pm PST: WeHo Russian Arts and Culture Events: Russian-language Virtual Tour Of The City Of West Hollywood

    Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95202636587
    Meeting ID: 952 0263 6587 or dial in  +1 669 900 6833 US
     
  • Friday, May 7, 12:00pm PST: Whites And Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands Of Tsar And Commissar (Link (https: //www.international.ucla.edu/euro/event/15061)) 

  • Monday, May 17, 9:30–11:00am PST: Sakharov Centenary Seminar: Sakharov, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights (Link (https: //daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/sakharov-centenary-seminar-sakharov-nuclear-weapons-and-human-rights))
  • Wednesday, May 19, 12:30pm PST: A Russian-language presentation by Russian Flagship student, Tyler Le - “Влияние космического полёта на организм человека”

    To RSVP and receive the zoom link, contact Dr. Susan Kresin (kresin@humnet.ucla.edu)

  • Friday, May 21, 9:30-11:00am PST: Sakharov Centenary Seminar: Sakharov’s Legacy in Russia and Beyond (Link) (https: //daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/sakharov-centenary-seminar-sakharovs-legacy-russia-and-beyond)
  • May 22-23, 2021: Workshop on disability studies in Russia - Disability 3.0: New Approaches to Studying Disability in Russia (Link (https: //events.iu.edu/reei/event/142717-rsw-disability-30-new-approaches-to-studying?utm_source=reei.indiana.edu/news-events/calendar-of-events/index.html&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=framework&utm_term=standard&utm_content=2021-05-22-allday-RSW:%20Disability%203.0:%20New%20Approaches%20to%20Studying%20Disability%20in%20Russia))

  • June 22-24, 2021: Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference (virtual) (Link (https: //carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/24/2021-carnegie-international-nuclear-policy-conference-event-7506))