Rock(ing) Regimes - Film Screenings

Event time: 
Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC ), 102 See map
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Krystyna Illakowicz, Sr. Lector in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University; Rita Safariants, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies, St. Olaf College
Event description: 

Film Screenings: Day One of Two @ LC 102

This event focuses on how rock music in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia) contributed to the fall of the oppressive communist regimes.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22

5:00 Welcome Reception

6:00 Screening & Opening Remarks: ASSA, 1987, Sergei Solovyov, 2hr 25 min. (A film about Russian Rock music)
Opening Remarks: Krystyna Illakowicz, Sr. Lector in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Introduction: Rita Safariants, Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies, St. Olaf College
Followed by Q&A