Join us Friday, November 12, 2021 for DAY-STOEVSKY
The bicentennial celebration of Fyodor Dostoevsky's birth!
2-5PM
Learning Services Building Courtyard
Food will be provided!
VOLUNTEERS WILL READ ALOUD SOME OF DOSTOEVSKY'S MOST FAMOUS WORKS!
sponsored by the UA Russian Club
Halloween is almost here! Join the Russian and Slavic Studies Department's Monster Party on October 27th,11:00 am - 1:00 pm, on UA mall (see the flyer for location). We will have food, drinks, and, of course, candy. You can participate in our costume contest, dancing, and games.
See the flyer for details.
Join the Russian and Slavic Studies Department for an exciting talk by Ksenia Turkova on independent media in Russia and Belarus on Tuesday, October 5th at 5:00 pm (PDT).
For more information, please see the flyer.
Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88452412174
The dark recesses of human imagination have always been haunted by scary and shadowy figures. Zombies, vampires and ghastly spirits emerge in story and legend, across different cultures and times, representing fear of the unknown. But they also become forbidden thrills, taboos that indulge our sense of mystery and danger. Why do we seek out the spine-tingling, the eerie, and the uncanny? What do they tell us about ourselves and our world? And what happens to monsters when they go Hollywood?
College of Humanities Faculty Panelists:
Joela Jacobs, Assistant Professor, German Studies
Colleen Lucey, Assistant Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
Lucy Swanson, Assistant Professor, French & Italian
Eddy White, Associate Professor of Practice, Public & Applied Humanities
Musical accompaniment by Suzanne Thompson, Assistant Professor of Practice, Russian & Slavic Studies
Join us for Fall 2021 Welcome Back Celebration on Wednesday, September 15th at 5:30! Please see the flyer for more details. Social interaction, film discussion, raffle, and more!
Please watch the film prior to the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBqejHyt2Eg
Click on this Zoom link to join: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82882652979
The Department of Russian and Slavic Studies congratulates RSSS Major Megan Dasha Rumble on her acceptance to the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) Collaborative Sustainability Fellowship Program: https://environment.arizona.edu/uc3-opportunities
“Fellows accepted into the program will be paired with a team of community and university mentors to develop and implement place-based projects that engage the campus and surrounding communities in developing solutions related to sustainability, environment, and/or climate action. Additionally, Fellows will engage in training coordinated by UC3 to develop skills related to building collaborative solutions to a range of problems.”
Congratulations, Dasha!
At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies will hold our end-of-the year celebration and Russian Art Challenge. We have our finalists for the Challenge! We will celebrate the end of this academic year and enjoy art recreations and interpretations by our talented students. All students and faculty are welcome to "bring" family and friends! Don't be shy! See the Zoom link on the attached flyer.
Let's get together and celebrate your achievements and triumphs over a very challenging year.
Click on this Zoom link to join: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81940975134
If you are taking any RSSS classes as an undergraduate or a graduate student, you can enter our first ever Russian Art Challenge contest with a grand finale scheduled on April 28th at 5:30 p.m. The deadline for photo submissions is April 20th. For more information about submission guidelines, see the attached flyer.
UA Russian Club invites everyone to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th at 5:30. This event will include trivia about the women of Russia and a discussion of the film Kokoko. For more details, please see the attached flyer.
To join this event, please click on this Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86529445203
Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies as we celebrate Black History Month with a lecture from historian Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon on Feb. 26, 11-12PM (held via Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/85409825173)
“No Jim Crow on the Trains of the Soviet Union”: African-Americans in Stalin’s Soviet Union
Scores of African Americans moved to the Soviet Union to better their economic standing and improve their quality of life. The experiences of these individuals shed light on how the juxtaposition of the Soviet attempt to mold a new society and the region’s relative inexperience with black people offered African American visitors a unique opportunity to explore modes of black identity. What did it mean to be black in a land that, according to official doctrine, had no racism or white supremacy? In this lecture, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon explores these questions and offers new insights on Soviet engagement with African Americans.
About the Speaker:
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a first-year doctoral student in the history department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her doctoral research examines the intersections between African American and African experiences in the Soviet Union and Soviet understandings of race and nationality.
For more information contact Prof. Colleen Lucey: luceyc@arizona.edu
