Russian

Remarks and awards for Russian department seniors and their families.

Directed by Michael Lockshin, ‘The Master and Margarita’ is an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship. Released in Russia in January 2024, the film has both drawn large audiences and been attacked by pro-Putin Russian nationalist propagandists, who have declared the film anti-regime and called for a criminal investigation into Lockshin. The film is not commercially available outside Russia, but Lockshin will offer a private screening for the Middlebury College community. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the director.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Trans and Queer Resistance and Resilience, a Symposium

Dr. J Calder 
Exploring the relationship between agency and transgender language

Join us in singing songs in a foreign language! You won’t be able to sing in English but there is still a variety to choose from: Russian, German, Portuguese, 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 @casadeportuguesemidd

The Flying Ship is a story about love and how it helps to overcome impossible obstacles. Ivan is a simple peasant who falls in love with Tsar’s daughter - Zabava. Zabava falls in love with Ivan too, however, her father is forcing her to marry a rich boyar Polkan, to whom he owns money. Protesting her father’s order, Zabava announces that she will marry the one who is able to build a flying ship. Here, Ivan’s quest begins…Will he be able to build a flying ship and rescue the love of his life?

Fritz Bartel is a diplomatic historian at Texas A&M University. His book on the end of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2022), The Triumph of Broken Promises, has been widely praised for its political-economic interpretation of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism in the United States.

Co-sponsored by the International Politics & Economics program

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in Mahaney Center for the Arts Room 126.

Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

— a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

Free screening of 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (documentary, dir. Mstyslav Chernov, 2023), sponsored by Middlebury Russian Department and IGS-REES. An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.