Past Events

2024

Nov 13
Study Abroad in Kazakhstan Information Session
Oct 31
Monster Party on the Mall
Apr 25
EMPOWERING CHANGE: GLOBAL IMPACT THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS WORK AND ADVOCACY
Apr 3
RSSS Spring Festival (Maslenitsa and Nauryz)
Feb 28
Panel Two Years of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Challenges, Insights, and Prognoses

2023

Nov 27
RSSS Department Hosts a Guest Lecture by Dr. Michnik
Oct 31
Monster Party 2023
Oct 16
RSSS and Human Rights Practice Present a Guest Lecture by Dr. Anton Burkov
Oct 11
Slavic and Eurasian Student Club's Film Screening of Piter FM
Oct 4
Study Abroad Fair 2023
Sep 27
Meet Your Major 2023
Apr 25
End-of-Semester Celebration
Apr 16
"CAPTAIN CHICANO" AND THE ARCHIVE - Dr. José Alaniz
Mar 21
Maslenitsa / Spring Festival on March 22, 11am to 1pm on UA Mall

2022

Nov 30
Graduate Students / Faculty Mixer
Nov 17
Film Screening: Documentary on Ukraine
Nov 2
Arizona-in-Kazakhstan Summer Program Information Session I
Nov 1
Careers in Translation
Oct 30
Russian and Slavic Studies Departments Hosts Monster Party on the Mall: October 31st, 11am-1pm
Oct 17
Careers in Translation
Oct 10
October 11th at 5:30: Russian Degrees at Work: Career in Diplomacy and the U.S. Department of State
Oct 3 - Oct 4
RSSS Guest Lecture Series -Dr. Michnik's Talk on The View from Poland: The War in Ukraine
Aug 22
Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies Welcome Back!
May 12
Spring 2022 Graduation Celebration
Apr 25
Vlad Strukov's Talk on LGBTQ in the Russian Federation (Before and After the Invasion of Ukraine)
Apr 25
Spring 2022 - End of Semester Celebration
Apr 21
RSSS Guest Lecture Series - Spring 2022 Irina Cor Chahine
Mar 29
Conversation with the Consul of Ukraine
Mar 28
Peace Rally: Stand with Ukraine
Mar 15 - Mar 16
Russia's War on Ukraine: Q&A with ASU and UA Faculty
Feb 20 - Feb 21
Russian Degrees at Work Series: Careers in Medical Fields on Monday, February 21st, 5:30pm-6:30 pm (MST)
Feb 14
Guest Lecture about Belarus by Dr. Yuliya Brel-Fournier on February 15 at 5:30 pm (MST)
Feb 1
RSSS Guest Lecture Series - Spring 2022 Ksenia Turkova

2021

Dec 16
Russian Graduating Students Gathering
Dec 2
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies End-of-Year Celebration
Nov 11
Celebrate Dostoevsky's 200th Birthday With Us!
Oct 26
Monster Party, October 27th, 11am-1pm, on UA Mall
Oct 26
In Search of Fright: Tales of Monsters, Ghosts & the Undead
Oct 4
Ksenia Turkova's Talk on Independent Media in Russia and Belarus on October 5th at 5:00 PM (PDT)
Sep 14
Welcome Back Celebration Fall 2021!
Apr 27
End-of-the-year Celebration and Russian Art Challenge Grand Finale: April 28th at 5:30 PM
Mar 7
Celebrate International Women's Day with UA Russian Club Film Discussion and Trivia
Feb 25
Join us for lecture, "African-Americans in Stalin's Soviet Union" with Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon on Feb 26, 11AM (MST)
Feb 22
Russian Degrees at Work: Careers in Military on February 23rd at 5:30 PM
Jan 27
Russian Degrees at Work: Cybersecurity on January 27th at 5:30 PM

2020

Dec 2
Join us for our first RSS Talent Show (via Zoom)!
Dec 1
Russian Degrees at Work: Translation & Interpretation and Nonproliferation and Terrorism on December 1 at 5:30.
Nov 18
Get in the spirit of winter holidays with this Russian comedy Yolki from 2010!
Nov 14
Young Alumni Brunch
Nov 4
Russian Degrees at Work on November 4 at 5:30pm
Oct 21 - Oct 25
Celebrate Halloween with the Russian and Slavic Studies Department on October 21st at 5:30! Film discussion, costume contest, social mingle and more!
Oct 16
Tune in to a Radio Talk By Dr. Anastasiia Gordiienko on October 16th at 5:00 pm (KXCI)
Sep 16
Russian and Slavic Studies Welcome Back Celebration! (Held Online)
Mar 4
Join us for Spring Film Series
Feb 28
Celebrate Maslenitsa-Russian Spring Festival
Feb 20
Screening of Eugene Onegin
Feb 19
Humanities Study Abroad Fair
Feb 5
RSS Film Series: Wings (in Russian with subtitles)
Jan 29
Join us for Welcome Back Get-Together! Jan. 29

2019

Nov 13
Join us for Soviet Cinema Classic - Ballad of a Soldier (with subtitles)
Nov 2
COH Young Alumni Brunch
Nov 1
Humanities Alumni Mixer
Nov 1
Transforming Lives: Empowering Philanthropy through Humanism
Oct 30
Join us for a Soviet Cinema Classic - Gogol's "Viy" (with subtitles)
Oct 18
Friends or Enemies: Politics & Poetry in Contemporary Russian Rap
Oct 9
Fall 2019 Russian Film Series Starts Oct. 9!
Aug 27
Welcome Back Event! Tue. Aug 27, 5-6 PM
Apr 30
Fair Trial Procedures in Kyrgyzstan: the difference between law and practice
Apr 29
Join us for Spring 2019 Awards Ceremony and Celebration
Apr 17
Join us for Maslenitsa!
Apr 16
"The Babushkas of Chernobyl" - Russian Film Festival
Apr 11
Join us for Monster Bash! April 11 on UA Mall
Apr 5 - Apr 6
Join us for AATSEEL - AZ on April 5 & 6 2019
Apr 4
RSSS Lecture Series: Global and Local Issues in Modern Eurasia
Mar 28
RSSS Lecture Series: Global and Local Issues in Modern Eurasia
Mar 22
Nauryz Festival! March 22 LSB Courtyard
Mar 19
Russian Film Series: The Mermaid (2007)
Mar 14
RSSS Lecture Series: Global and Local Issues in Modern Eurasia
Mar 14
Graphic Imperatives in Soviet Sport, Lecture by Dr. Helena Goscilo
Mar 12
Lecture: Anton Burkov "Human Rights in Today's Russia"
Feb 28
RSSS Lecture Series: Global and Local Issues in Modern Eurasia
Feb 15 - Feb 22
Information Session - Moscow Art Theatre Study Abroad Program
Feb 6
Meet-and-greet with UA Alumnus, David J. Hall, Operations Officer at the Department of State's Nuclear Risk Reduction Center
Feb 4
Building a Career in Journalism Abroad
Jan 28
Welcome Back Get-Together - January 28!

2018

Dec 3
End of Semester Celebration!
Nov 2
Symposium: Power of the Powerless - A 1968 Retrospective
Sep 24
Russian Film Series - Fall 2018
May 2
Awards Ceremony
Apr 18
Sweeping a Tomb in Nice: Revolutionary Mourning in Alexander Herzen and Ba Jin
Apr 17
Roundtable on Contemporary US-Russian Relations

2017

Nov 6
Remembering the Russian Revolution
Oct 16
Film Series to Commemorate 100-year Anniversary of Russian Revolution
Oct 3
Punk Prayer: Pussy Riot's Fight for Global Freedom of Expression
Sep 7
Information Session & Welcome Back Party
Mar 28
Russian Art and Revolution
Feb 14 - May 2
Speak Russian with the KGB Club (Klub govoriashchikh boltunov/ The Chatter Club) EVERY TUESDAY AFTERNOON!

2016

Nov 1
Screening of Moscow Art Theatre's The Cherry Orchard
Oct 27 - Oct 29
Celebrate Homecoming 2016 with the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies!
Oct 18
Roundtable on Russian Hackers and Cyber Espionage
Oct 10
Join us for the Tucson Humanities Festival!
Apr 14
April Film Festival - From Russia (With Love?)
Apr 6
Poetry Evening Celebrates Abai Kunanbai
Mar 23
Maslenitsa Festival
Mar 8
Celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th!

2015

Oct 30
Live From UB: A Documentary on Rock & Freedom in the New Mongolia
Oct 9
A DATE WITH A TRAIN: Anna Karenina on Screen
Mar 27
Nauryz (Spring) Celebration

2014

Dec 6
Second Annual Russian Winter Festival: A Huge Success! See Pics Here!
Oct 17
PICTURES FROM "Wives, Widows, AND Whoopee: The Lives and Loves of Russian Women", Oct 17, 2015 Humanities Week
Oct 2 - Dec 4
Russian Club Spring 2015 Mondays 5-6 pm

2013

Oct 3
Arizona Illustrated, KUAT. Suzanne Eanes will be interviewed by Mark McLemore
May 8
Call for Applications for the 3rd Annual B.G. Thompson, Jr. Study Abroad Award. Deadline, March 2, 2015!
Feb 1 - May 7
Weekly! Informal Russian Conversation Practice Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 in RSSS Department
Jan 27 - Feb 12
Concert: Arizona Balalaika Orchestra on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Pima College West, 7pm Proscenium Theater

2012

Oct 19
PICTURES OF "Moscow is Burning" (painting by J.F.A. Clar) Humanities Week 2012

2011

Oct 21
Russian Fantasia: Russian Folklore, Farce, and Fairytales in Readings and Music
Oct 12
Azeri Journalist/Blogger speaks about "Blogging and Activism in Azerbaijan"
Apr 9
Yuri's Night

2010

Mar 26
Addressing the Beloved: Love, Longing and Separation! An Evening of Russian Poetry and Music