НОВОСТИ

Are you interested in the kinds of advanced research that students do in the Russian, Central, and Eastern European Concentration? Please join us this Friday, May 10, 12:00pm-1:00pm, in JRC 209, for a presentation of four Mentored Advanced Projects:

Wild West and Model Socialist City: Wrocław and Warszawa in Post-World War II Poland,

1945-1956 ~ Doug Dobrzynski ‘13

State and Regime in post-Soviet Central Asia: Economic Decisions and Regime

Classification ~ Adam Lauretig ‘13

Czech Young Adult Literature: the Roma Problem ~ Furugh Nahib ‘13,

 The Devil in Moscow: Illustrations in The Master and Margarita ~ Christopher Squier ‘13

Sponsored by the RCEES Concentration and the Department of Russian

A light lunch will be provided!

We are pleased to announce an evening of Russian food and music, featuring our annual Slavic Coffeehouse, with a wide variety of delicious Slavic foods prepared by Russian Department faculty and students available for a nominal cost, and a special concert of Russian folk music performed by the renowned Russian folk music group Zolotoi Plyos (Alexander Solovov, Elena Sadina, and Sergei Gratchev). The group’s repertoire includes songs from many different regions of Russia, and the trio performs in authentic folk costumes and plays numerous traditional Russian instruments, including the treshchetka, balalaika, garmoshka and lozhki. Founded in 1994, the group has performed in Russia, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal and the US.

Saturday, April 13th

Slavic Coffeehouse, Bucksbaum Rotunda, 5:30-6:30 pm

Concert, Sebring-Lewis Hall, 7:00 pm

Sunday, April 14th

Workshop, JRC 101, 11:00 am

We hope you will join us in Faulconer Gallery on Tuesday, March 12th, at 4:15, for a talk presented by Professor Ed Cohn of the department of history. Ed’s talk is inspired by the pictures of Chernobyl, which are part of the current exhibit of Robert Polidori’s art in the gallery. http://www.grinnell.edu/faulconergallery/exhibitions/polidori

View of Chernobyl taken from Pripyat (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Chernobyl_taken_from_Pripyat.JPG)

Русский дом! Live in Russian House next year!

Are you interested in living off-campus next year? Would you like to live in a Russian-language environment, and participate in Russian activities? Join fellow Russian enthusiasts in Russian House, which is located at 1217 Park Street. There are singles and doubles available, as well as a full kitchen (кухня), a lounge area with television (телевизор), and various activities (мероприятия), including the now famous Russian Tea Party (Чаепитие) and Maslenitsa (Масленица) celebration.

Interested? Please contact the Russian House Coordinator at [russia] or [squierch] and/or Todd Armstrong at [armstron].

Just include your name, year, involvement in Russian (major or intended major? native speaker? taking classes?) and any extra information that may be important (going abroad for a semester, for example).

Grinnellians will be interested in reading about the adventures of one of last year’s graduates, Jared Dye ’12, who is spending the year in Russia, where he is teaching English in Tyumen, a city in Siberia. Jared, along with Kristen Moreland ’12, received a prestigious Fulbright award. Jared’s blog can be found here: http://jaredsfulbrightinsiberia.blogspot.ru.

Elvira Fattakhova was recently asked by the on-line journal oncampus.ru to contribute an essay describing her experiences so far in the US and at Grinnell College as a Fulbright Russian Language Assistant. Students of Russian and our alumni, as well as past assistants, will find this article of interest:

http://oncampus.ru/lichnyy-opyt/lichniy-opyt-5-stazhirovka-v-ssha-po-programme-fulbrayta

Elvira with the Russian Department at the annual Russian Department Picnic, Fall, 2012