Archived Events

This talk examines the role of the female sex worker in Russia during the volatile 1980s and 1990s, a period marked by glasnost, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

12:00-12:30: Welcome (lunch available)

12:30 pm-1:30 pm: Thinking Translation in a German Key: Herder, Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kafka

Moderator: Hans Shen

Join us Friday, February 6th
12:30-2:00pm
912 Sproul Hall

Come meet other students in the German and Russian Majors/Minors and learn about upcoming courses (Spring quarter 2026)!

Join us for a warm and friendly afternoon of tea, sweets, and conversation in Russian!

All levels of Russian speakers are welcome - come to practice, relax, and connect with others interested in Russian Language and culture.  

Sven-Erik Rose is professor of German and of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis.

Taking Theodor W. Adorno’s Minima Moralia as its point of departure, my talk reads instances of allusion, citationality, intertextuality as constitutive of a critical practice that displaces thought onto a kaleidoscope of literary resonances.

German and Russian Undergraduate Spring Quarter Lunch
May 2nd, 12:30-2pm

Sproul 912

UCDavis Jewish Studies, Department of German & Russian, And the History Department present

When: Wednesday, March 15, 5:10 p.m.

Where: 1309 Grove

The film: The Star (Звезда) (2014), directed by Armenian-Russian filmmaker Anna Melikian

Pizza will be served!

Maureen Burdock is a graphic storyteller. She was born in the Black Forest, Germany. The summer after first grade, her mother brought her to the Chicago area to escape domestic violence.