Building a Career in Journalism Abroad
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 12-1PM at the UA Bookstore lower level.

Learn from world-renowned journalist Joanna Lillis about a career abroad in journalism. The session will also allow for attendees to ask questions about building careers abroad and living in Central Asia. A complimentary lunch will be served.  https://uanews.arizona.edu/calendar/117200-talk-building-career-journalism-abroad

Joanna Lillis is a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia whose work has been featured in the Guardian, The Economist and the Independent newspapers, the Eurasianet website and Foreign Policy and POLITICO magazines. Prior to settling in Kazakhstan in 2005, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan between 1995 and 2005, and worked for BBC Monitoring, the BBC World Service's global media tracking service. While completing a Bachelor of Arts in modern languages at the University of Leeds, she studied Russian in the Soviet republics of Belorussia and Ukraine before the collapse of the USSR, and has a Master of Arts in interpreting and translation from the University of Bradford. Her new book, "Dark Shadows: Inside Secret Kazahkstan," is now available.

Interested in a career in diplomacy, Foreign Service, or information management? Join us for a Q&A with David J. Hall about how his study of Russian impacted his professional career.  

David J. Hall received his introduction to Russian through the university's language and literature courses in the late 70's, and continued that study upon leaving the university while an Army reservist at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA. He graduated with honors from the DLIFLC Basic Russian course in 1983, and went on to serve as a DOD civilian language analyst over the next decade. During that time, he acquired Greek language expertise (again from DLIFLC), and subsequently Arabic (including completion of the Middlebury Summer Arabic program). Also during this timeframe, David served with distinction at the US Embassy in Athens and the US Embassy in Manama, Bahrain (where he received the Desert Storm/Desert Shield Civilian Medal). In his last overseas assignment, David served as a non-traveling Information Management Specialist at the US Mission to NATO in Brussels. Since returning from overseas, David has served as a multi-lingual operations officer of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center's Watch Office. In support of this assignment, he completed German language training at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, and returned to his Russian linguistic roots through completion of the FSI Russian program.  As an operations officer in the NRRC, David handles and translates official messaging regarding nuclear and conventional forces between more than 40 partner nations across multiple arms control treaties in any of the six official languages (Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and English).

This event is sponsored by the UA Russian Club and the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies. 

Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at our Welcome Back Get-Together! 

Come and grab a bite to eat as you listen to music and catch up with students, friends and faculty. 

Information will be available on upcoming scholarship opportunities and on study abroad programs! 

Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies celebrate the end of the Fall 2018 Semester! 

Meet other students interested in Russian and hear about upcoming study abroad opportunities in Russia and Kazakhstan. 

When: Monday, Dec. 3, 2018   4:30-6:30PM 

Where: Student Union, San Pedro Room

Light refreshments will be served. 

Join us for the symposium “The Power of the Powerless: A 1968 Retrospective.” This event brings together scholars from multiple disciplines and perspectives on the 50th anniversary of the important global events of 1968. The one-day symposium is book-ended by keynote talks by Dr. David Danaher and Dr. Julian Bourg (see below). In conjunction with the symposium three hosted film screenings will be held at 7:00pm at the Loft Cinema in Tucson on November 2: Daisies (Czechoslovakia, 1966), November 6: In the Intense Now (Brazil, 2017), and November 7: Something in the Air (France, 2012). All events are free and open to the public. 

For a complete list of presentations, see attached symposium schedule. 

This event is made possible thanks to the University of Arizona’s College of Humanities, the Dept. of French & Italian, and the Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies.

Keynote speakers:

Dr. David Danaher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Author of Reading Vaclav Havel (University of Toronto Press, 2015). Dr. David Danaher's research interests include pedagogy, literature, and linguistics with reference to both Russian and Czech. His most recent book, Reading Vaclav Havel, examines the contemporary relevance of the Czech playwright, dissident, and “non-political” politician Václav Havel, who is considered one of the most influential intellectuals of our time. Among his current research projects is a book on the lessons to be drawn from the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe.

Dr. Julian Bourg, Boston College

Author of From Revolution to Ethics (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2007). Dr. Julian Bourg’s interests include 19th- and 20th-century European intellectual history, the history of terrorism, modernism and post-modernism, and biopower. His first book, From Revolution to Ethics, examined the revival of the theme of ethics among French intellectuals in the wake of the student and worker revolts of May 1968. Among his current research projects is a book on the history of the relationship between terror and democracy since the eighteenth century.

Join us for our 2018 Fall Film Series! Films are in Russian with English subtitles. 

All screenings take place in ILC 130

Monday, Sept. 24 5:30PM -- Legend No. 17 (2013)

A Russian biographical sports film of the ice hockey legend Valerii Kharlamov. The modern film depicts the USSR's triumphant--and unexpected--win against the Canadian hockey team in 1972. 

Monday, Oct. 22 5:30PM -- Night Watch (2010)

The first modern "blockbuster" in Russian cinema, Night Watch is a fantasy thriller with vampires and witches participating in an eternal struggle between good and evil. Don't miss this cult classic!

Monday, Nov 19 5:30PM -- Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)

Perfect for the holiday season, this comedy takes place on New Year's Eve and weaves together the stories of seemingly unconnected individuals. 

Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies for the Spring 2018 Awards Ceremony!