Coming to Our Secrets this weekend? Interested in spies, government surveillance, and censorship? Panel-Secrets & Spies: Artists in the Eastern Bloc Thursday, January 12 5:00-6:30 PM Haldeman 41 Director Béla Pintér joins faculty to discuss German, Hungarian and Russian culture under 20th century Communism, including government surveillance, censorship, samizdat and the fetishization of folk traditions.The panel discussion will be followed by a reception<http://news.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=42592&listing=1#.WHZaK1UrKHt> and exhibit of photos in the Haldeman Center's Russo Gallery by Norwich, VT photographer Seth Goodwin<http://sethharpergoodwin.com/>. Goodwin's "Images from the Soviet Union, 1988" will be on display from January 9th - January 18th. For more information on the exhibit, see what the Valley News<http://www.vnews.com/Photos-of-Soviet-Union-at-Norwich-Public-Library-6420846> and the <https://dailyuv.com/news/874240> Daily UV<https://dailyuv.com/news/874240> <https://dailyuv.com/news/874240> have to say! SPEAKERS Stuart Finkel, Visiting Associate Professor of History and Russian Studies Yuliya Komska, Associate Professor of German Edit Nagy, Hungarian Language Lecturer, University of Florida's Center for European Studies Béla Pintér, Director of Our Secrets Moderated by Stephanie Pacheco, Hopkins Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Programmed in conjunction with Béla Pintér and Company's Our Secrets Fri & Sat Jan 13 & 14, 8:00 PM, The Moore Theater Tickets and info here.<https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/default.asp> Hungary's leading theater director, Béla Pintér offers potent, biting insight into a specific absurdity of early '80s Communist Hungary: the secret police's infiltration of amateur folk dancing. A musician confesses unspeakable sexual desires-unaware his government is taping every word. In between the playwright's pointed political jokes, pressure builds, until seeping distrust compels lifelong friends to inform on each other, poisoning even the innocent desire to flirt, stomp and twirl. In Hungarian with English supertitles. Adult language, graphic sexual content.