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  • Joshua Rubenstein, The Last Days of Stalin

    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."

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  • Impermanent Collection: Documenting Ukrainian Museums

    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.

    Students studying Ukrainian organizing exhibit

  • Political Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign

    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.

    Sasha Skochilenko artwork

  • My Women in Conversation with Ukrainian Writer Yuliia Iliukha

    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.

    Yuliia Iliukha

  • Temporary Dwellings 2024

    Join us as Pavel Lion, better known as Psoy Korolenko, presents the third edition of his annual concert. This multilingual program includes songs and translations mostly themed around autumn and the concept of wandering. October 22nd 2024. 7pm. Free and Open to the Public.

    Pavel Lion

  • Op-ed regarding Ukraine's NATO membership by Victoria Somoff published in The Guardian

    An op-ed regarding the status of Ukraine's NATO membership by faculty member Victoria Somoff was published in The Guardian on July 27th 2024. Written as an open letter signed by over 150 scholars from western and European universities, it has been viewed and reposted multiple times on social media and translated and commented upon in many Ukrainian publications.

    Nato Council

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