Students translated and staged the world premiere of Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Vertep for Homo Sapiens, a play drawn from the stories of Ukrainians living through Russia’s 2022 invasion.

The 10th Annual New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian took place on April 12, 2026, at Harvard University. The Olympiada is a speech...

Join EEERS for a special lecture with Katerina Gordeeva—award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and "foreign agent" in exile on February 23rd 2026 at 4:30pm in Haldeman 041. Renowned for her intimate interviewing style on the hit YouTube show Tell Gordeeva and her recent book Take My Grief Away (Penguin, 2024),

Students of Dartmouth's Intensive Ukrainian (UKRA 11, Fall '25) course presented a performance of poetry from the Ukrainian frontlines, translated into English in collaboration with students from several universities across Ukraine, who joined live via Zoom. The program featured Ukrainian songs on the accordion and readings by members of the Dartmouth Student Alliance for Ukraine.

Pavel Lion, better known as Psoy Korolenko, presented the fourth edition of his annual concert. This multilingual program included songs and translations mostly themed around autumn and the concept of wandering. October 28th 2025

Volodymyr Rafeyenko, one of the leading and widely translated Ukrainian authors, joined us on October 22nd for a conversation about his new work Signals of Being. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, and trained in Russian philology and culture, he wrote for many years in Russian, publishing novels, essays, and criticism,

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.

Deborah Garretson, retired associate professor of Russian, died on March 2 at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care. She was...

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.