MOSCOW
(EST. 1998)
If you would like to give a public lecture in Moscow, contact the host of ELE. Contact: s_lapeyrouse@hotmail.com
Meeting usually twice a month from mid-October all to late May, ELE hosts (mostly) native English speakers, usually prominent and/or interesting individuals from Moscow's greater English-language and/or foreign-resident community, giving lectures on topics of their own choosing.
Among the PURPOSES of ELE is the providing of an intelligent-intellectual evening in Moscow in English, the presentation of a wide variety of topics and speakers, and the promotion of more personal contacts between the speakers and Russians in Moscow.
All visitors, Russians and "expats" are welcome!
The HOST of the club is the founder, Stephen Lapeyrouse, author, essayist, English language private tutor, and editor for newspaper English, American.
ELE has hosted 100+ meetings with more than 90 SPEAKERS from many countries: ambassadors and attaches of various embassies; Fulbight scholars; visiting and resident professors; well-known Moscow journalists (from the Moscow Times, Russia Journal) and international TV and radio correspondents (BBC, VOA, Sky News); social activists; heads of institutions (e.g. AmCham, Moscow Carnegie Center, Amnesty International), et al, on a wide variety of lecture topics.
To view a full list of previous speakers/lectures, click here.
The lectures COST 50 rubles to attend. (This is modest support for the library and for ELE expenses. The speakers' honoraria have gone over the years in their names to well-known Russian charities: ROOF, ARC, Moscow Animals, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Nastenka, et al.)
LOCATION:
Lectures are held in the:
Chekhov Library/Cultural Center
Strastnoi Bulvar 6
Moscow
(Just north of the Metro Chekhovskaya street exit -- somewhat across from the large cinema's "Shangri-la" at Pushkin Square -- look for the "6" on the building; go through the tunnel/arch to the back side of the building. Take the first gate/door immediately as you exit the tunnel.)
TIME: Lectures usually start at 19:00, followed by Q&As, discussion, comments, etc; and ending about 21:00.
TO BE ON THE FREE EMAILING LIST AND TO AUTOMATICALLY BE NOTIFIED OF UPCOMING ELE MEETINGS, HANGES, ETC, SIMPLY SEND AN EMAIL TO:
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To contact the host of ELE, write to:
s_lapeyrouse@hotmail.com
Click here for David Wansbrough Contact Information.
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2009/2010 SEASON:
All Lectures held at:
CHEKHOV LIBRARY/CULTURAL CENTER
STRASTNOI BULVAR 6
(Nearest Metro Chekhovskaya)
19:00-21:00
50 Rubles
(Meetings are usually, but not always, on Fridays, so pay close attention to dates!)
September 18, 2009
"ANIMAL RIGHTS AND HUMAN WRONGS:
Animal Welfare Developments in Britain and Russia
from the 19th Century to the Present Day."
James Hogan
Vice Chairman
Mayhew Animal Home & Humane Education Centre, London
To get information (in Russian) about how and where to volunteer to help homeless animals in Moscow, see link 1 and link 2.
September 25, 2009
"How do we see?" A lecture on how we selectively see. How our belief structures and education determine our personal worlds.
David Wansbrough
Author, Lecturer, Poet
(To read some poetry by David translated into Russian, see: http://www.cleverdog.ru/wansbrough/wansbrough.html)
October 9, 2009
"Finding Identity in Multi-Cultural Australia"
David Wansbrough
Author, Lecturer, Poet
This will be his last ELE before returning to Australia
October 23, 2009
"What is Protestantism?"
Pastor Bob Bronkema
Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy
November 13, 2009
“The Importance of Being Wrong:
Reflections on Public Politics in America and Russia”
Sam Greene
Deputy Director Carnegie Moscow Center
November 27, 2009
“What Is Right (and Wrong) with Russian Men?”
Diedre Dare, "sExpat" Columnist, Moscow News
December 11, 2009
“Art & Literature in London & Moscow – International Cultural Relations & the Work of the British Council in Russia”
Rosemary Hilhorst, Director British Council Russia
December 18, 2009
“Twas the Week Before Christmas... -- An Evening on the History, the Heart and Soul, and the Celebration of Christmas in America”
Stephen Lapeyrouse, Founder of ELE, Author, Editor
Christmas music lyrics to print
Bring a treat for the Christmas party?
A Christmas Card
2010
January 22, 2010
"Covering Russia: Reflections on Reporting Russia" (Rather than a lecture, this will be a conversation on the topic, with...)
Fred Weir
Moscow Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor
Fred Weir is a Canadian journalist who has lived in Moscow for more than 2 decades and specializes in Russian affairs. He is also co-author of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System (1996).
February 12, 2010
"How Science Fiction Reflects American Culture"
Lisa Gregory
Deputy Cultural Attache US Embassy Moscow
Using examples from well know (and some not-so-well-known) films and television shows, Lisa Gregory will lead a group discussion on the major recurring themes of American science fiction, and how the genre can be used to contrast the world as we see it with the world as we hope (or fear) it will become.
February 26, 2010
“The World's Columbian Exposition and the City Beautiful Movement."
Russell Lewis
Chicago History Museum's Executive Vice President and Chief Historian
By the 1890s Chicago was the fastest growing city in the world, but it was choking on its on success.
Historian Russell Lewis will speak on The World's Columbian Exposition, called the White City, which offered a vision of a city based on harmony, symmetry, and beauty, explaining how urban progressives sought to create a good government social movement tied to an effort to introduce rational planning and aesthetic design to city development. The fullest expression of this was the signature example of the City Beautiful Movement, the Plan of Chicago. The City Beautiful Movement was a Progressive reform movement in North American architecture and urban planning of the 1890s and 1900s which used beautification and monumental grandeur in cities to create moral and civic virtue among urban populations, believing that beautification promoted harmonious social order, increased the quality of life and help to remove social ills.
March 19, 2010
"Charlie Parker: Jazz Genius, Jazz Tragedy"
Helen Campbell
Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland, Heidelberg, Germany
Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) was perhaps America's most accomplished jazz saxophonist. From his modest beginnings in Kansas City, Missouri, to his premature death in New York, he, along with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and others, transformed jazz from dance music to high art--but at enormous personal cost. Parker's story is one of jazz's greatest triumphs--and greatest tragedies.
March 26, 2010
“Do Artists and Scientists Ever Collaborate?”
Lloyd Anderson
Deputy Director, British Council Moscow