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Preliminary Cullum Calendar 2005 - NOTE: These dates/speakers are not yet finalized and are subject to change.

“Bridging the Bering Strait: Russia 2005”

Date		Event Type	Speaker/Event		Time	Title
Jan 10 class begins			ALL EVENTS HELD IN University Hall Room 170 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
January	11	speaker	Mikhail Epstein: Keynote		12:00 noon	“Mournful Beauty: On the Spirit of Russian Literature”
	11	speaker	Mikhail Epstein		7 p.m.	“Between Asceticism and Aggression: Russian Religious Philosophy in Search of the Absolute” Held in Science Building room W1002
	18	speaker	Hubert Van Tuyll		11:30 a.m.	“Revolution, State, and People: The Origins of Soviet Communism”
	18	speaker	Hubert Van Tuyll		7 p.m.	“Revolution, State and People: Does the Russian Revolution Have Meaning Today?” Held in Science Building room W1002
	25	speaker	Matthew J. Payne		11:30 a.m.	“Fat State, Thin People? — Russia and the Burdens of History”
	25	speaker	Matthew J. Payne		7 p.m.	“Whither Rus'? — How Post-Communist Russia Finds itself at the Crossroads”
	27	film			7 p.m.	“Magnetogorsk”
	31	film			7 p.m.	“Burnt by the Sun” as part of ASU film series, Monday night
February	1	speaker	Alexei Kojevnikov		11:30 a.m.	"Russian Science in the Imperial Era: from Frontier Explorations to Noosphere"
	1	speaker	Alexei Kojevnikov		7 p.m.	“The Phenomenon of Soviet Science”
	3	film			7 p.m.	"Tycoon"
	8	speaker	Mark Lipovetsky		11:30 a.m.	“Russian Postmodernist Literature: The Path of Explosive Compromises”
	8	speaker	Mark Lipovetsky		7 p.m.	“Seeking Compromises, Getting Explosives: The Recycling of Socialist Realism”
	10	film				Tycoon ( last 20 minutes); Russian animation
	15	speaker /Film	Steve Clements		7 p.m.	“Contemporary Russian Cinema and Society, Part I” and first hour of “The Thief” [lecture for 20 minutes before the film.]
	17	speaker /Film	Steve Clements		7 p.m.	“Contemporary Russian Cinema and Society, Part II” and second hour of “The Thief” [lecture for 20 minutes after the film.]
	22	speaker	Paul Harris		11:30 a.m.	“A Transnational Diaspora in the Making? Russian Speaking Jews in Israel, Germany and the United States”
	22	speaker	Paul Harris		7 p.m.	“A Transnational Diaspora in the Making? Russian Speaking Jews in Israel, Germany and the United States”
	24	film/ speaker	Polina Yemelyanova		7 p.m.	Polina Yemelyanova shows her film, ‘A Place to Call Home' followed by her presentation "Russian Orphans in American Homes"
March	1	speaker	Igor Kuzmin (program change: was originally March 29, 2005)		11:30 a.m.	“Changes in the Elite in Post-Communist Russia”
	1	speaker	Igor Kuzmin (program change: was originally March 29, 2005)		7 p.m.	“Features of the Kremlin’s Modern World View”
	8		Spring Mini-break
	10	Inter- national Festival			11:30 a.m.	ASU International Festival
	10	Inter- national Festival			7 p.m.	Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival
	15	Music Perform- ance			7:30 p.m.	From Russia with Love , Russian Music Lecture & Music Trio,(7:30, PAT)
	22	speaker	Marilyn Helms		11:30 a.m.	“Current Business Challenges in Russia”
	22	speaker	Marilyn Helms		7 p.m.	“Supply Chain Challenges: A Case Study of Russia”
	29	speaker	Robert Kennedy (program change: was originally March 1, 2005)		11:30 a.m.	“Russian Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era”
	29	speaker	Robert Kennedy (program change: was originally March 1, 2005)		7 p.m.	“Russian Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era”
April	5-7	Spring Break
	12	speaker	Slava Yastremski		11:30 a.m.	"Canvases in the Shadow of Fallen Idols: Contemporary Russian Art"
	12	speaker	Slava Yastremski		7 p.m.	"In the Russian Ark from Repentance to the Return: New Cinema of the New Russia"
	19	speaker	Craig Douglas Albert		11:30 a.m.	“Chechnya: Russia's War on Terror”
	19	speaker	Craig Douglas Albert		7 p.m.	“Chechnya: Russia's War on Terror”
	26	speaker	Anastasia Zolotova		11:30 a.m.	“Youth of Russia: Problems and Perspectives after Perestroika”
May	3		last day of classes