Archive for May, 2007
CURS is welcoming Boris Grebenschikov in Cambridge, 24 May
BG is not only:
- The legend of Russian rock, the author of stinging songs and poetry;
- The philosopher and sage giving us the intelligible advices what are we living for;
- The eminent representative of Russian Intelligentsia diluted with the hippie outlook.
BG is:
- OUR EVERYTHING
- WHEN: Thursday, 24 May, 5:30 pm
- WHERE: Umney Theatre, Robinson College
The programme of the evening is a total secret.
- HOW MUCH: free for CURS members, 2 pounds for all guests
Reed more about Boris Grebenshikov
Picking up your tickets
This announcement concerns those only who pre-ordered the vouchers via official channel (that is, from Sri Chinmoy Center).
As you know, the better seats for the concert are promised for the CURS members; and if you plan to make an exchange of the vouchers into tickets in the last minute before the concert you risk to get the worst seats and either not to get tickets at all.
CURS offers you the following option: We shall make an exchange of your vouchers into tickets taking the best possible seats. You have to trust us your vouchers in order to make this possible; of course we guarantee the maximum correctness and safeness in performing this task.
How to collect your ticket: We shall be around from 6 until 7 pm before the concert. Please mind that coming early is essential if you are expecting to get a good ticket!
Here are the directions to Royal Albert Hall.
Boris Grebenshikov’s concert in London, 21 May
Singer, composer and poet Boris Grebenshikov is one of the “founding fathers” of Russian rock. He has produced more than 500 songs and 50 albums since the formation of his legendary band Aquarium in 1972. The band’s broad style ranges from reggae to blues, punk to jazz, a “heavy” electrical sound to translucent acoustics and includes a whole slew of various ethnic and folklore influences – from Celtic to Asian.
- WHEN: 21 May, Monday, 7:30
- WHERE: Royal Albert Hall, London
Russian Graduate Seminar “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age”, 15 May
The Russian Graduate Seminar will be opened with a lecture “Aesthetics of Death in the Russian Culture of the Silver Age” in English by Vladimir Orlov (PhD Student in Musicology, University of Cambridge).
The lecture is devoted to the various attitudes that dominated amongst many eminent representatives of Russian intelligentsia in regards to the subject of death, during the time of the famous Russian Renaissance, the Silver Age. The strong belief in the positive value of nihil approximated different ideological groups of Russian pre-revolutionary artists and philosophers which desired the grandiouse devastation that really happened soon after. The talk is intended for everyone interested in Russia, Russian culture and its dramatical and sublime path.
- WHEN: 15 May, Tuesday, 5:15 pm
- WHERE: Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Graduate Suite, Raised Faculty Building, [Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA] top floor
CamRuSS talk “What’s happened to that liberal Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky”, 14 May
or “Poet and Postgrad in the 60s Moscow”. A talk (in Russian) by Michael Pushkin, with poetry readings. Followed by juice, wine and nibbles.
- WNEN: Monday, 14th May, 7pm for 7:30pm
- WHERE: Walter Graves Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Storey’s Way, Cambridge CB3 0DG
- PRICE: CamRuSS members free, others 2 pounds (1 pound concessions)
Andrei Voznesensky, born in 1933, was one of the archetypal “men of the 60s”. A protege of Pasternak, he was independent-minded rather than an outright dissident, but had regular skirmishes with the authorities, including Khrushchev’s notorious attack on him in the Kremlin in 1963. His poetry, often accused of verbal pyrotechnics, is densely metaphorical, contrasting ancient and modern, spiritual and material, natural and technological.
About the speaker:
- Michael Pushkin has taught Russian language, literature and history at the University of Birmingham since 1968, and was the Head of the Russian Department for many years. He has published articles on the 19th-century Russian intelligentsia and on the modern poet Andrei Voznesensky, whom he has known personally since the early 60s, and interviewed a number of times, in Moscow and in London.
CURS Kapustnik, 12 May
- WHEN: Saturday, 12 May, 5:30 pm
- WHERE: Music Room, Robinson College (Please ask at the Porter’s Lodge)
In the programme:
- Famous and notorious alluring songs in Russian and English!
- Staging in costumes, solo and choir performance!
- Funny singers, beautiful ladies!
- Refreshments, pianoforte, and lots of fun guaranteed!
N.B. Do not forget the rotten eggs and tomatoes, this is essential if you really want to get some pleasure!
CURS Russian investment seminar / PWC Moscow informal recruitment event, 10 May
CU Russian Society is pleased to invite you to a seminar led by:
- Mr Peter Prabhu, senior Director PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia, and
- Mr Demetrius A. Floudas, international management consultant, Moscow.
The seminar features:
- a talk on Russian competitiveness and opportunities for investment,
- followed by a cheese and wine reception, and
- an informal PricewaterhouseCoopers Moscow recruitment get-together.
(The talk and the recruitment event can be attended separately.)
- WHERE: Robinson College, Auditorium Lounge
- WHEN: Thursday, 10 May, 5.30 pm (talk) and 7.00 pm (recruitment event)
No registration is required for this event. If you wish to obtain further information, please contact mathias.roth[at]russiancambridge.org.
This event is sponsored by ZAO PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia.
About the speakers:
- Mr Peter Prabhu
Mr. Prabhu holds a B.Com in accounting and finance from McGill University (Great Distinction), where he was a James McGill Scholar and was awarded the graduating medal in Finance. He holds a Master’s degree in Management from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Mr. Prabhu is currently under contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia, where he is the senior Director in the Infrastructure and Project Finance group. In this capacity, he focuses on capital-raising and other advisory services for public and private sector entities. He has been a featured speaker at the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” and “Raising Company Value” conferences in Moscow, as well as the keynote speaker at the 2007 Russia-Canada Business Council meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
In his earlier career, Mr. Prabhu has been a senior investment banker and project financier with the JPMorgan Chase and BankAmerica organizations, with regional responsibility for Asia-Pacific. He also practiced as a public accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, and worked in the public sector at Investment Canada, an agency of the Canadian government charged with attracting foreign direct investment. Mr. Prabhu is a co-founder of Interstice Consulting and serves as a senior advisor to the firm.
- Mr Demetrius A. Floudas
Mr. Floudas holds an LL.B. (magna cum laude) from the University of Athens as well as an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded an Onassis Foundation Scholarship in 1992 and is also a Member of the British Academy of Experts and of the Athens Bar.
Mr Floudas is currently advising the Russian Government on the Approximation of Competition Rules. He served previously as Team Leader of the Project for the Accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation. He has lectured in numerous Universities and Institutes in Moscow and the provinces; interviews with him on Russian affairs have been published in ‘Russia Profile’, the Moscow Times and other media. He has contributed a chapter to the book ‘Russia & the WTO’ (forthcoming).
Mr Floudas is a Vice President and Head of the European Consultancy Division at Interstice Consulting. Mr. Floudas also serves as the lead representative of IK Rokas & Partners in Russia and as a senior partner in the Athens-based law firm Floudas Tsilimidos Mavromichalis. He is an expert on the European Union and its policies and processes for integration and expansion. Mr. Floudas has completed a broad scope of international consulting assignments in the private and public sectors, including projects in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He is a recognised specialist in e-commerce regulation and the application of new technologies, with particular emphasis in international domain name acquisition, registration and protection, where he continues to advise and represent some of the most widely-known e-commerce names. In 1997 the European Commission named him a Jean Monnet module leader.
Mr Floudas also engages in teaching and research at Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge and the intensive programmes of the Academie de Paris. He has been elected Fellow of the Hellenic Institute of International & Foreign Law and Visiting Fellow of the Centre for International Economic Research, Anglia Business School. He previously held the position of Lecturer in European & Comparative Law at the Anglia Law School (UK) and was an Aristoteles Visiting Fellow at Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne).