Congratulations to the winners of the Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest. In this year's contest, there were 941 essays submitted from 52 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation.
Alex Joel '25 has been named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the Carnegie American Statecraft Program, which examines U.S. foreign policy through "the lens of key bilateral relationships, mapping the way to a foreign policy more responsive to the realities of the mid-twenty-first century." Each year, the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers approximately 15 one-year fellowships to graduating seniors to work as research assistants to Carnegie's senior scholars in such areas as the Global South, the U.S.-China relationship, nuclear policy, and technology and international affairs.
Five Dartmouth students traveled to Harvard on April 6th 2025 to compete in the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian. Two students won prizes for their participation. Congratulations to our winners and participants!
The Department hosted director Michael Lockshin for discussion after a screening of his new film adaptation of Bulgarov's novel the Master and Margarita where he discussed the difficulties and challenges faced adapting such a complex novel.
Joshua Rubenstein is an award-winning independent scholar of literature and history, an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, and a life-long activist (Amnesty International) with a specialty in Russian and Soviet dissidents and prisoners of conscience. He is the author or editor of a number of path-breaking books on Soviet and Soviet-Jewish history. In this talk, he discusses his 2016 book The Last Days of Stalin, when the Soviet Union was inundated with a "tsunami of anti-Semitism."
More than 1,000 days into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, resistance to the war still buzzes across Dartmouth. Spearheading these efforts are two Ukrainian professors, Victoria Somoff, associate professor in the recently renamed East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies department, and Lada Kolomiyets, visiting professor, at Dartmouth.
On October 30th a group of Dartmouth students gathered in Reed Hall to write letters to political prisoners in Russia supported by faculty of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies. Inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Vladimir Kara-Murza, recently released, who recommended letter writing as a means to bolster the spirits of those incarcerated for their political beliefs.
Book Talk: Living the Independence Dream Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context. Please join us for moderated discussion of this new publication. November 18th 2024, 4:30-6:30pm Max Kade Center. Free and open to Public.
Join us for a literary event with Yuliia Iliukha, a Ukrainian writer from Kharkiv, as she reads from her newly published collection of flash fiction, My Women, translated into English by Hanna Leliv and released by 128 Lit. This collection brings together forty stories—at times excruciatingly difficult yet deeply moving—about women confronted by the countless brutalities of war. Yuliia will be joined by her translator, Hanna Leliv. October 21st 2024. Haldeman 041. 4:30pm.
Russian dissidents, including recently released Pulitzer Prize winner Vladimir Kara-Murza, discussed their efforts, challenges, and hopes for the future of democracy in Russia. October 16th 2024.
