Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, theatre, visual art, etc.), linguistics, and history are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Please submit a proposal by February 20th, 2021. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged. The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, 2022.
Please join us for Armenian Circle this Monday at 5:30pm in Room 218, Pick Hall (this will be our regular meeting time for the quarter). This week, we’ll be discussing Armenian folk music (its contemporary renditions/reimaginings), as well as learning a traditional Western Armenian circle dance. It should be an exciting meeting, so be sure not to miss it!
**This event will be held in English.
Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Russian and author of Advanced Russian through History, will be teaching an asynchronous distance course in Hofstra’s January 2022 term called “Jewish Voices in Russian Culture.” This course uses the anthology edited by Dr. Maxim Shrayer of Boston College.
On November 18th, at 7:30PM EST Hofstra University will host a zoom-based event on the coup of August 19, 1991. The event will feature a screening of the documentary film The Event by Sergei Loznitsa, and a panel discussion with individuals who were in the USSR on the day of the coup, discussing how they experienced the day.
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at the University of Pittsburgh will award up to two Language Teaching and Learning Research (LTLR) Grants for scholars to conduct research projects on-site or remotely at the Summer Language Institute in June – July 2022.
Northwestern University’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites applications for a renewable, three-year appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor of Instruction in Polish, to begin September 1, 2022.
Virtual Harper Lecture: "Democracy in Peril: A Conversation with UChicago Social Sciences Faculty"
Mon. Nov 15, 2021
6:30 — 8:00 PM CST
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Kenyon College’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites applications for a two-year (2022–2024) Visiting Assistant Professorship in Russian.
The Armenian Circle will be meeting again this Thursday at 6:00pm in Room 218, Pick Hall.
We will be continuing our discussion from last week, examining how exile and arrival have shaped Armenians' understanding of "home" and "diaspora." Once again, we'd love to hear individual family stories, so please bring any relevant pictures, artifacts, or accounts that may help further our discussion.
Last week made for a very interesting conversation, so I'm certain that this week will only continue this deeply important topic.
**This event will be held in English.
We will happily work with anyone willing and able to read in Russian or Kazakh and write a review or two in English. If you would like to review a book, or know someone who might, please fill out this form. Please share this information widely with your students and networks.
