aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- Re: [aaus-list] Re: [Fwd: [SEELANGS] Wed. 12/6 Politkovskayaevening (NYC)] (fwd)

[Alex Pidwerbetsky <pidwerbetsky@bell-labs.com>]

Here is the program announcement from CSPN2. 
Note the corrected time.

On Saturday, December 9 at 4:00 pm and at 10:00 pm and Sunday, December 10 at 7:00 pm

Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Musa Klebnikov, Dana Priest, Kati Marton, Natalia David Remnick

Description: From the CUNY Graduate
Center in New York City a tribute to slain Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya. Included are readings from Ms. Politkovskaya's work by
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Musa Klebnikov, Dana Priest, Francine Prose and
Kati Marton. The tribute also includes an interview with Chechnya-based
human rights worker Natalia Estemirova by David Remnick and a clip from
the documentary "Democracy on Deadline," which features Ms.
Politkovskaya. PEN American Center's Larry Siems makes introductory
remarks.

Author Bio: Until her death on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya
was special correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta. She is the the
author of "A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya,"
"The Dirty War," and "Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing
Democracy."



At 12:29 PM 12/8/2006, Max Pyziur wrote:

> Received this via private email
> ....
>
> fyi,
>
> MP
> pyz@brama.com
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:23:40 -0500
> To: Max Pyziur <pyz@brama.com>
> Subject: Re: [aaus-list] Re: [Fwd: [SEELANGS] Wed. 12/6
> Politkovskaya  evening
>     (NYC)]
>
> Max,
>
> I think CSPN2 is going to broadcast the event (at least the listing of
> the speakers
> is the same) a number of times this weekend:
> Sat 12/9 at 4 pm and 12midnight
> Sun 12/10 7pm.
>
> I recall that on the first page of her book on Chechnya ("A Small
> corner of Hell"), she
> said that she was a Ukrainian travelling on a Russian passport, so she
> had a strong
> Ukrainian identity.
>
>
> At 11:42 AM 12/8/2006, you wrote:
> > I attended this event this past
> > Wednesday.  The size of the audience was impressive (1000+?). 
> > Musa Klebnikov (widow of Paul Klebnikov), Katrina vanden Heuvel, and
> > David Remnick (of the New Yorker) participated.
> > Would anyone have any more info on Politkovskaya?  On wikipedia.org
> > it shows that she was born Anna Mazepa in NYC in 1958 to Soviet Ukraine
> > U.N. diplomats.
> > There is information on her studies (graduated in 1980 in Moscow) and
> > then her more recent work but there are gaps elsewhere (married?,
> > divorced?, what happened to her parents? etc).
> > ???
> > Max Pyziur
> > pyz@brama.com
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Max Pyziur wrote:
> >
> > > fyi,
> > > MP
> > > pyz@brama.com
> > > ---------------------------- Original Message
> > > ----------------------------
> > > Subject: [SEELANGS] Wed. 12/6 Politkovskaya evening (NYC)
> > > From:    "Deborah Hoffman"
> > > <lino59@AMERITECH.NET>
> > > Date:    Mon, December 4, 2006 8:57 am
> > > To:      SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Forgive if this has been posted already -
> > >  There will be an evening of readings from Politkovskaya's work and
> > > a
> > > conversation about the war in Chechnya at Poshansky Auditorium, The
> > > Graduate Center at CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St. Natalia
> > > Estemirova
> > > will represent the "Memorial" Human Rights Center. Event
> > > co-sponsored by
> > > PEN American Center, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the
> > > Center for the Humanities at CUNY. Time 7-8:30 pm. For more details
> > > call
> > > 212-334-1660, x107
> > >
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