BALSSI Cultural Events
In addition to language classes, BALSSI also offers a variety of cultural events.
Monday, June 23
Opening Ceremony
Friday, June 26
Film, “Is It Easy to Be Young?” (Latvia, 1986). Humanities 135, 2 PM
Tuesday, July 1
Piibi-Kai Kivik (Indiana University), “Kalevipoeg and Old Barny: Estonian folk-heroes revisited.” Humanities A32, 2–3 PM
Wednesday, July 2
Film, “Names in Marble.” (Estonia, 2002). Humanities A65, 2 PM.
Sunday, July 6
Field Trip to XIII Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival (Departure time TBA—performance starts at 1:30 PM). **Persons not involved with BALSSI should make their own arrangements regarding this event.**
Monday July 7
Dalia Cidzikaite, (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor-in-Chief, Draugas). “Facing the Other: The Image of the Jew in Post-war Lithuanian Prose.” Dodd 167, 1:30–2:30 PM.
Wednesday, July 9
Film “You Am I.” (Lithuania, 2006). Humanities A65, 2 PM
Tuesday, July 15
Luda Popenhagen (Cal State Channel Islands), “Baltic Literature: Authors on Ice.” Humanities A32, 2–3 PM.
Wednesday, July 16
Film, “The Shoe.” (Germany, Latvia, 1998). Humanities A65, 2–3 PM
Tuesday July 22
Luda Popenhagen (Cal State Channel Islands), “Displaced Persons: Balts after WWII.” Humanities A32, 2–3 PM.
Wednesday, July 23
Film, “Spring,” Estonia, 1969. Humanities A65, 2 PM.
Tuesday, July 29
Uldis Ballodis (UC Santa Barbara), “Five People—A Major Language?: Livonian, Its Speakers, and Their Homeland.” Humanities A32, 2–3 PM.
Wednesday, July 30
Film, “Before Flying Back to the Earth,” (Lithuania, 2005). Humanities A65, 2 PM.
Tuesday, August 5
Speaker TBA (Dodd 170), 2–3 PM
Wednesday, August 6
Film, “Monotony” (Latvia, 2007). Humanities 135, 2 PM
Tuesday, August 12
Daiva Litvinskaite, (University of Illinois-Chicago) “Post-colonialism in Lithuanian Literature.” Dodd 170, 2 PM.
Wednesday, August 13
Film, “Empty” (Estonia, 2006). Humanities 135 (tentative location), 2 PM.
Friday, August 15
Closing Ceremonies. Humanities 311, 10–12 AM.
For further questions please contact:
Dan Ryan, danryan@ucla.edu
Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
