Russian House Game Night
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
Russian House members (4 students & Dinara the TA) get together once a week to play games and catch up at the house.
637 College Street
Russian
Russian
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International Karaoke Night
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
Join us in signing songs in a foreign language! You won’t be able to sing in English but there is still a variety to choose from: Russian, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and others. The details will follow up in the Language House Instagrams: @russianhousemidd @midd_chinese_house @deutschhaus_middlbry @casadeespanol @arabichouse2 @jhouse_diary @casaitalianamidd @lamaisonfrancaisemidd
McCullough Wilson Cafe
Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Light of the War in Ukraine
- Sponsored by:
- Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Russian
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Dr. Scott Kenworthy, professor of comparative religion, Miami University and “Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Light of the War in Ukraine.” Dr. Kenworthy’s research interests focus on the history and thought of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, particularly in modern Russia. His most recent book is co-authored with Alexander Agadjanian, Understanding World Christianity: Russia (Fortress Press, 2021).
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Tabooed Songs: The History of Music Censorship in Russia
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
Artemy Troitsky is a journalist, music critic and author of several books on the history of rock music and youth protests in Russia.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
Ukraine, Russia and US Foreign Policy
Matthew Rojansky will discuss the current state of the war in Ukraine and take questions from the audience.
Matthew Rojansky, the President and CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, is as much a regular at Congressional briefings and on prime-time news shows as he is on the streets of Moscow, Kyiv, or Berlin. One of the country’s leading analysts of US relations with Russia, Ukraine, and the region, he has advised governments and international organizations and leads track two diplomacy on Eurasian conflicts.
Matthew Rojansky, the President and CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, is as much a regular at Congressional briefings and on prime-time news shows as he is on the streets of Moscow, Kyiv, or Berlin. One of the country’s leading analysts of US relations with Russia, Ukraine, and the region, he has advised governments and international organizations and leads track two diplomacy on Eurasian conflicts.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Concert of Slavic Traditional Music Performed by "Zolotoj Plyos"
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
Middlebury Chapel
Zolotoi ples: Russian Folk Music Concert
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
The very popular Russian folk troupe Zolotoi ples returns to campus for a concert of lively vocal and instrumental music sponsored by the Russian Department and the Academic Enrichment fund. Sergei Gratchev, Elena Sadina and Alexander Solovov (L to R) are graduates of the Saratov Music Academy in Russia and frequently direct the Middlebury Russian School choir.
The concert is free and open to the public and will delight audience members of all ages.
Middlebury Chapel
The state of democracy and press freedom in Russia: What Donald Trump could (and should not) learn from Vladimir Putin
- Sponsored by:
- Russian
A lecture by Tikhon Dzyadko, Russian television journalist and anchor at RTVi, a Russian-language news network based in New York. Dzyadko has also been Washington correspondent for the Ukrainian news network INTER, and from 2010 to 2015 was a journalist and then deputy editor-in-chief for TV Rain, the last independent television news network in Russia. He was also a correspondent and anchor for Echo of Moscow radio from 2005 to 2013, and a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders in Russia from 2007 to 2012.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey
This talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime?
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Reception: A Field Guide for Foreign Languages, Cultures and Literatures Majors
This informal reception is an opportunity for students, alumni, and faculty to connect after the Field Guide for Foreign Languages, Cultures and Literatures Majors.