Slavic Colloquium

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures runs a colloquium series, which brings distinguished speakers to Stanford.

 

Upcoming Events

April
22

Slavic Colloquium: Katya Hokanson - Russia at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle:  Imperial Colonial Identities

Date
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm. 216
May
6

Slavic Colloquium - Józefina Piątkowska-Brzezińska: Is a Poet in Russia More Than a Poet? Zhenya Berkovich and Art as Protest

Date
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216
May
13

Slavic Colloquium - Irina Reyfman: Leo Tolstoy in the Eighteenth Century

Date
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216

Past Events

April
8

Slavic Colloquium: Nataša Kovačević - Imagining Decolonization through Nonalignment: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South

Date
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm. 216
February
11

Slavic Colloquium: Anastasia Forquenot De La Fortelle - The Memory of Place and the 'Non-Place' of Memory in Post-Soviet Ukrainian and Russian Literature

Date
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
February
4

Slavic Colloquium: Kornelija Icin - The International Magazine of the Avant-garde Culture Zenit (Zagreb – Belgrade, 1921 – 1926) and its Russian Contributors"

Date
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
January
28

Slavic Colloquium: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya - Slovo, Discourse, Song: Vladimir Nabokov and Translation

Date
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
January
21

Slavic Colloquium: Maria Grazia Bartolini - The Politics and Epistemology of Demonic Apparitions in Early Modern Ukraine (1620–1688)

Date
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
November
12

Slavic Colloquium: Michael Wachtel: Biography vs. Mythography: The Case of Viacheslav Ivanov

Date
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 4:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
252
November
5

Slavic Colloquium: Uilleam Blacker: Realm of Freedom and Threat: Literary Contestations of the Ukrainian Steppe

Date
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 4:30pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
October
22

Slavic Colloquium: Ilya Kukulin: Soviet Literary Constructivism and the Rise of Uncensored Russophone Poetry in 1939-1970

Date
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216
May
28

Slavic Colloquium: Maria Mayofis - State Surveillance and Literary Production: The Role of the Third Section in Russian Cultural History

Date
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216
May
14

Slavic Colloquium: Kevin Platt - Global Socialist Networks in the Age of Three Worlds: Art and Arbitrage from Mexico to Moscow

Date
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 216