Friday, March 10, 20233:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Young Research Library
Main Conference Room 11360
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages and Cultures in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS), UCLA Humanities, UCLA Library, UCLA Political Science, and Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles invite you to a lecture by Peter Steiner entitled The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel’s Greengrocer. The event will take place in-person on Friday, March 10, 2023 at 3pm in the Young Research Library’s Main Conference Room 11360. The event features a one-day showcase of Havel's and Steiner's publications. Light refreshments will be provided.
We encourage you to read the digest and/or paper draft before attendance.
There will also be a graduate seminar with Peter Steiner on Slavic Literary Theory on Tuesday, March 14th at 5:15pm in 305 Kaplan Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend, no registration is required.
Speaker
Peter Steiner is an Emeritus Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Prague, he received his Ph.D. at Yale in 1976. Before coming to Penn, he taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Harvard. After retiring he served as a Visiting Yunshan Professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou. His research interests include literary theory and modern Russian and Czech literature.
Books by Peter Steiner
Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics (Cornell UP, 1984; Spanish edition, 2001; Czech edition, 2011); The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and its Social Context (Cornell UP, 2000; Czech edition, 2002); Making a Czech Hero: Julius Fučík Through his Writings (Carl Beck Papers, 2000); Václav Havel: Od existenciální revoluce k invazi do Iráku (Palacký UP, Olomouc 2022); tr. and ed.: The Prague School: Selected Writings, 1929–1946 (U of Texas Press, 1982).
Venue
Young Research Library
Main Conference Room 11360*
*Located behind the coffee shop on the main floor
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, Political Science, UCLA Humanities, UCLA Library, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles