Please join us for a conversation with Volodymyr Rafeyenko, one of the leading and widely translated Ukrainian authors. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and trained in Russian philology and culture, he wrote for many years in Russian, publishing novels, essays, and criticism. October 22nd at 4:30pm Haldeman 041.
Molly Bentley '27 and Aidan Silvestro '27 hosted a Slavic (in) formal for students of EEER classes to wrap up the year. It was well attended, especially from the Russian 3 class and also welcomed and connected with new students.
In her more than 40 years at Dartmouth, Garretson made a lasting impact on the curriculum, her colleagues, and generations of students.
Students from Wonder Works from Ukraine: Folklore, Literature, Film (EEER 39) participated in a pysanka (Ukrainian decorated Easter egg) workshop, led virtually from Kyiv.
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.
