When: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street
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Description: This new documentary, written and produced by Beth Holmgren (Duke University) and directed, filmed, and edited by Igor Sopronenko (Signature Media Productions) tells many stories of how Russians & Americans collaborated over the last two decades in reviving women’s activism and creating Russian women’s studies on in the Soviet Union/post-soviet Russia and the U.S. MODERN RUSSIAN FEMINISM was made possible in part by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Duke’s Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, a Collaboration Development Grant from Duke’s Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, the Duke University Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, the Duke University Center for International Studies with additional funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, and Mary & Harold Zirin. Contact beth.holmgren [Email: beth.holmgren #AT# duke.edu ] for more info.
Sponsor: Slavic Languages and Literature
Contact Information: See description
Categories: Lecture/Talk, Movie/Film
art, culture, Department of Education, Documentary Studies, Europe, foreign language, globalization, human rights, international studies, Russia, womens studies
