Edythe Haber

Areas of Expertise

Edythe Haber is a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi, and Nabokov. A second book, Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter, came out in 2019, a Russian edition scheduled to appear in 2022. She has recently returned to Bulgakov and is continuing her work of exploring the mythical, religious, and philosophical underpinnings of his great novel, The Master and Margarita.

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Frédéric Chopin statue in Royal Baths (Łazienki Królewskie) Park in Warsaw

Performing a Nation: Chopin Statue and Concerts in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park

Thursday, May 2, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.

Tony Lin

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Russian and Slavic Studies, Boston College

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Putin at the Headquarters of the Dnepr Group of Forces and Vostok National Guard with a Not Made by Human Hands icon of the Savior, April 2023

Putin’s Politics of the Sacred and His Claim on Kyiv

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EST

In person

This talk draws on 20 years (2004-2024) of religious political signaling by Putin as it explores his claim on Kyiv as the sacred center of Russian history and culture.

Amy Adams

Professor of Russian Studies, College of the Holy Cross

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Myth, Dialectics … and Persecution: Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and the GAKhNovtsy

Monday, November 27, 2023
4:30 to 6pm EST

In person

This seminar will consider the influence on Bulgakov's work of new friends and acquaintances affiliated with the State Academy of Artistic Research, or GAKhN, positing that it was far-reaching, possibly clarifying the philosophical underpinnings of his best-known novel.

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Genius Song: Text to Music

Thursday, October 19, 2023
4:30 to 6pm EDT

In person

This talk considers two musical works, produced in the 2000s, based on writing by poet Marina Tsvetaeva and novelist Vladimir Sorokin, respectively. Both are homages to the literary and musical figures of past and present, unified by the modern and post-modern tableaux of the “disintegrated world.”

Olga Zaslavsky

Independent Scholar

Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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