Russian News
Congratulations to Monika Bernotas, Caroline Kaine, and James O'Leary. They have just learned that they've received ETA Fulbright Scholarships.
Maggie Burke, MK Gavin, and Caitlin Oakley will intern this summer for the Library of Congress. They will work in the Law Library, European Reading Room and the Iudin Collection.
The selection committee has awarded the 2012 Dobro Slovo Scholarship to Rachel Faith.
On March 17th Jacob Lassin, Maggie Burke, Sophie Kosar, and Alex McGrath took part in a conference for graduate students hosted by the University of Virginia
Lassin is giving a talk about the commemoration of World War II in Russian cyberspace. Come learn about Russia, the Internet, Myth-making and more!
Migration, urban space and motion picture film have a shared history that has shaped human existence since the end of the 19th century. What is the relationship between migration, city, and film in films about Russia and Russians?
The Russian Studies Program is proud to present documentary films that W&M students have made in St. Petersburg this summer.
Thursday, October 27, 5:00 pm Washington 315
The Russian Studies Program is proud to present this year homecoming lecture speaker Ed Geist ABD (UNC, Chapel Hill) "The Living Chernobyl: The Exclusion Zone 25 Years Later"
Join us for pizza and conversation. Tuesday, October 18 3:30-4:19 pm. Washington 315 Your Russian and Post-Soviet Studies faculty
Professor Kate Brown (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) will present a lecture entitled "Irrevocable: The Life-Changing, Society-Altering Significance of Plutonium in the US and USSR."
Friday, October 7, 3:00PM-4:00PM (Reves Room, Reves Center for International Studies) Dr. Steve Hanson, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Director of the Reves Center for International Studies, is presenting “20 Years After the Collapse of the USSR - What Have We Learned?” Refreshments will be served.
Organized by the Russian Studies students, this film series reflects on the past 20 years of post-communist Russian history
Monika Bernotas and Suzanne Reed Win Honorable Mention Certificates at the Twelfth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest (May 2011)
Russian Studies Program begins broadcasting on You Tube. The first program is dedicated to the Post-Soviet Russian Television Symposum, which was held April 7-9, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/user/wmrussian
Professor Kenneth Pinnow (Allegheny College, PA) will talk about suicide as a cultural phenomenon in the 1920s Russian society. 5 pm., April 15, Washington 201
April 8th, 5 pm. Washington 201 Professor Stephen Hutchings, the leading scholar of Russian television, talks about the role of the medium in forging the Post-Soviet Russia.
The American Council of Teachers of Russian proudly recognizes the achievements of William Sinnott.
Suzanne Reed has been accepted into the Flagship Program in St.Petersburg, Russia
As an executive of the United Technologies Corporation, Peter Barzach developed, implemented and managed the start-up of the first US Manufacturing Joint Venture (JV) with a member company of the Russian Ministry of Defense in history.
The selection committee has awarded the 2011 Dobro Slovo Scholarship to Sophia Kosar.
Our own Jacob Lassin has been awarded the 2011 Critical Language Scholarship and will be studying Russian in the city of Ufa in Bashkortostan this summer.
On February 10th nine Russian Studies students took part in the 12th ACTR National Russian Essay Competition.
Public Lecture "Moscow and Rome: latest developments in Vatican-Russian relations in a geopolitical context."
a series of contemporary Russian comedies that will definitely make you laugh and maybe change your perceptions about modern Russian culture.
Russian Department is having the End of the Semester Russian Dinner this Saturday, December 4th at 6pm.
Mark your calendars. Russian Studies students present three Russian fantasy films: an epic, a sci-fi film, and a post-Soviet action thriller.
An action epic based on Nikolai Gogol's 1842 classic.
Anastasia Kayiatos (University of CA, Berkeley) introduces Oakie Treadwell’s Experimental Film Maggots and Men
Anastasia Kayiatos (University of California, Berkeley) and Roy Chan (William & Mary) discuss sexuality and difference within the context of socialist and post-socialist spaces, Russia and China in particular.
Sarah Argodale has successfully defended her Honors Thesis _Identity and Memory in the Tatarstan Republic_ and was awarded the highest honors.
Professor Corney has been awarded a Harrison Chair of History Professorship (2009-2013).
CONGRATULATIONS to ELEONORA FIGLIUOLI! Eleonora wins the third place in the Eleventh Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest.
This weekend on Barksdale Field, the Russian House played soccer with the German House.
Maggie Burke, a second year student at the College, was recently awarded the 2010 Dobro Slovo Scholarship in the amount of $500.
Congratulations to Jacob Lassin and Barry O'Keefe. Jacob received Chappell Fellowship. Barry received Charles Center International Research Scholarship. They will do research in Russia this summer.
On 12 April 2010, 7pm. Zolotoi Plyos will perform a Russian folk music concert in Ewell Recital Hall.
On Feb 25th 2010, Sarah Argodale presented her research on memory sites in Post-Communist Tatarstan at the 11th Annual Honor Colloquium.
Zach Keifer wins the NiCad/W&M video contest.
Chris Hart-Moynihan wins an Award for writing a musical score for a scene in a Russian film.
William Sinnott, a second year student at the College, was recently awarded the 2009 Dobro Slovo Scholarship in the amount of $500.
Our guest speaker, Mr. John Carlson (Army Lieutenant Colonel, Ret.), has served as Chief and Senior Presidential Translator on the "Moscow Hotline" since 1989.
Yuri Tsivian will look at what Soviet avant-garde artists of the 1920s made of Charlie Chaplin; at his image as a "Taylorist actor;" at his impact on Kuleshov's workshop; and, more closely, at one movie which Russians thought was Chaplin's, but which Chaplin never made. Dedicated to Centenary of Russian Cinema.
Russian Studies students complete the mockumentary about Soviet space trip to the Moon, "Red Moon Rising."
Dobro Slovo Scholarship Advisory Committee is happy to announce that Kurt Carlson received the 2008 Dobro Slovo Scholarship award.
This year, ten members of the Russian program will be inducted into the Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society.
Sasha Prokhorov Receives the Jefferson Teaching Award
Russian folk music group Zolotoi Plyos (Alexander Solovov, Elena Sadina, and Serguei Gratchev) will give a concert-demonstration of Russian folk music for W&M students and faculty.
Russian and Post-Soviet Studies present a Public Lecture. "Musical Metamorphosis: Eugene Onegin from Page to Stage" Our guest speaker is Helena Goscilo, UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh.
Karen Kettering, Ph.D. (Curator of Russian Art, Hillwood Museum and Gardens) talks about the tradition of Russian imperial porcelain. The lecture will be held on October 5th, at 5:30 pm., in Muscarelle Museum of Art.
Sept 28, 5:30 pm. in Muscarelle Museum of Art Russian artist and art historian NICKOLAI DUBAVIK Lecture: The Paintings of Russian Artist, Zabelin Nickolai Dubavik talks about the tradition of Russian realist painting and one of the major representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century Vyacheslav Zabelin (1935-2002).
Tony Anemone will duscuss the conventions and role of icons in Medieval Russian culture. Andrews Hall 101 September 21, 5:30 pm.
On September 7th, at 5:30 pm. in Andrews Hall 101, Wendy Salmond will give a talk "TRADITIONS IN TRANSITION Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs." Wendy Salmond is the curator of the Exhibition RUSSIAN ICONS IN THE AGE OF THE ROMANOVS open currently in the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Her talk explores the place of religious visual tradition in secular culture. Sasha Prokhorov
Don't Miss Russian Exhibits on Campus! August 26-october 8, 2006: Russian Icons in the Age of Romanovs, Russian Porcelain, Russian Realist Paintings.
Rachel Olchesky wins the first annual Dobro Slovo Scholarship to study at St. Petersburg State University in the summer of 2006.
Three Russian students have been accepted to the Middlebury Summer 2006 Russian School.
Associate Professor of Russian, Tony Anemone receives Technology Grant to podcast Advanced Russian Conversation in the spring of 2006.
Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures Tony Anemone was elected President of the Southern Regional Association of Slavic Scholars at the recent conference of the organization in Nashville, TN.
Matt Kiser, Russian Studies '04, accepts fellowship from Slavic Department at UC Berkeley
This award-winning 2010 documentary highlights the life and achievements of Igor Savitsky (1915-1984), who rescued 44,000 works of unsanctioned Soviet art and founded a museum to display them. Today, the Nukus Art Museum, located in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, holds the second largest collection of Soviet avant-garde art in the world. This collection, suppressed during Stalinism and the following decades, offers fresh perspectives on the art and history of the USSR.