Friday, November 16, 20187:00 PM - 9:00 PM
362 Royce Hall
PANELISTS:
Dr. Julia Alekseyeva is a scholar, writer and illustrator who specializes in non-fiction graphic narratives, comic journalism, and memoir. Her non-fiction historical memoir titled Soviet Daughter (2017) won the 2017 VLA Diversity Award and has been featured on NPR, Lilith, Tablet, The Week, and the Rumpus, among others. Her most recent work includes graphic narrative articles on Dziga Vertov and 1968. Dr. Alekseyeva received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Comparative Literature. She is a scholar of media, film, and culture, specializing in the interactions between global media and radical leftist politics.
Victoria Lomasko is a Moscow-based artist and author working in the genre of graphic journalism. She is the s the coauthor of Forbidden Art, which was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in 2010. She has also co-curated two major art exhibitions—The Feminist Pencil and Drawing the Court. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows in Russia and abroad, and her latest project is the mural design for the GRAD gallery at the Somerset House in London.
Vladimir Zimakov is a printmaker and illustrator, an associate professor of art and design at Lasell College, and director of the Wedeman gallery. Vladimir has worked with world’s leading publishing houses such as
Penguin, Random House, Faber and Faber, the Folio Society, Rizolli,
Centipede Press and Vita Nova and illustrated books and book covers for
the works of Gustav Meyrink, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Alexandre Dumas, Herman Melville, A.T.A. Hoffman, Margaret Atwood and
Julian Barnes among others.
For more information visit the event website or contact Sasha Razor at sasharazor@ucla.eduCost : Free and open to the public. RSVP not required for admission.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for World Languages, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures