The Pray Modern Language Prize in Russian was awarded to graduating senior Lintaro P. Donovan at the East European, Eurasian and Russian Studies year end celebration on June 7th 2024. Congradulations on all your hard work!
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The students of Russian 71 (Spring'24) premiered a documentary play "The Crossroad" (Перекресток) written and assembled from interviews with the participants and transcripts from the trial of Alexandra (Sasha) Skochilenko – a 33-year-old Petersburg artist and musician who was imprisoned for her performance activism against Russia's war in Ukraine. The play was written, cast, and designed by the students of Russian 71.
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On May 22nd the Department of East European, Eurasian and Russian Studies and the Dartmouth community gathered in person and via Zoom to hear the senior theses presentations of Eric Bae and Cassandra Caballero '24. Cassandra Caballero's thesis is tited: "Does Taste Live in the Cemetery?": The Club of Creative Youth and National Iconography in Thaw-era Soviet Ukraine". Eric Bae's: "Jews with Specifics: Perceptions of Identity, Ethnicity, and Community among 1st and 2nd Generation Bukharian Jews in New York".
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May 8th 2024 guest speaker Ivan Kurilla will give a lecture entitled " Russian Society under Putin at War: A View from Inside," Ivan Kurilla is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Wellesley College, and former Professor of History and International Relations, European University of St. Petersburg.
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"On April 7, six Dartmouth students competed in person and online at the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian at Harvard University, a one-day event for students to demonstrate their Russian-speaking abilities." -Rachel Kim, The Dartmouth April 25th 2024
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