Jan. 3, Wed. - General Orientation (locations and time TBD), Tryouts: Jan. 3, 4:30 pm Russian workshop, Jan. 4, 4:30 pm, Russian workshop, Jan. 5, 4:30 pm, Russian workshop. Jury selection: Jan. 8, 4:30 pm. All applicants must attend all of the above sessions.
January 19, 2024, 5:00 pm, Reed 107 (subject to change), Naomi Caffee, Reed College. Free and open to the public.
Undaunted by war, Dartmouth and Ukrainian students share poetry and music.
Dartmouth students have the unique opportunity to study Russian language and Baltic and post-Soviet history & culture in the beautiful and historic Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia). The application deadline for the current program is January of each year.
Olena Stiazhkina, Prominent Ukrainian writer and history professor exiled from Donetsk since the 2014 Russian occupation gave a lecture on November 9, 2023, give a presentation on the occasion of the upcoming publication of her two books in the English language, the novel "Cecil the Lion Had to Die" and "Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary".
The English major from Ukraine translated a collection by poet Bohdana Matiyash.
Visiting Professor Lada Kolomiyets delivers keynote at "Russian-Ukrainian Memory Wars" Conference in New York City on September 16, 2023.
Pavel Lion performed in Collis 107 Common Ground on Nov. 1, 2023. His concert featuring original & translated songs by Psoy Korolenko & other authors, as well as the artist's renderings of traditional songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, English, French & Portuguese.
Ainsley Morse's book Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature (Northwestern UP, 2021) traces the history of the relationship between experimental aesthetics and Soviet children's books, a relationship that persisted over the seventy years of the Soviet Union's existence. Please listen to the podcast from New Books Network
Karina Sheifer, Department of Linguistics, Dartmouth College gave a lecture on September 28, 2023. The talk examines the interdependence of political upheaval, social adversity, and the preservation of endangered languages in today's Russia.
