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What? Spring Festival When? March 22, 11am-1pm on Where? UA Mall, in front of the bookstore Celebrate Spring with the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies! Maslenitsa (aka Spring Festival or Pancake Week) is one of the popular holidays of…

In the year since Russia attacked Ukraine, more than 8 million Ukrainians have fled the country and settled around the world.  In Tucson, Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern Arizona (JFCS) is one agency working to assist…

The College of Humanities, together with the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, reiterates our condemnation of Russia’s unjustified war on Ukraine. In the year since this terrible war began, the human tragedy has been staggering. According to…

AZ-AATSEEL   Conference Date: March 25, 2023   University of Arizona  Department of Russian and Slavic Studies  (co-organized with ASU’s Russian Department, School of International Letters and Cultures)  Abstracts for…

Congratulations to Dr. Colleen Lucey for winning American Association of Teacher of Slavic and East European Languages Best First Book Prize for her book Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia. "Colleen Lucey’s intriguing…

Dr. Colleen Lucey, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, is the recipient of the College of Humanities 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award.  “Dr. Lucey’s contributions have been truly monumental in promoting the teaching mission of…

Dr. Liudmila Klimanova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, has been awarded the University’s 2022 Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award.  Announced by the Office of the Provost, the award is…

The Department of Russian and Slavic Studies condemns Russia’s assault on Ukraine. The University of Arizona is the home of many scholars and students who have spent their lives studying Ukraine, Russia, and other nations in Eastern Europe and…

Professor Liudmila Klimanova (Russian & Slavic Studies) was awarded the 2021 Dorothy Chun Award for Best Article in Language Learning & Technology Journal for her recent publication, “The evolution of identity research in CALL: From scripted…

In the Spring of 2021, Human Rights Practice and Russian and Slavic Studies students in RSSS 308 Communicating in a Cultural Context led by Professor Liudmila Klimanova collaborated with students from the American University of Central Asia and…