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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

Open to the Public
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Ukraine, Russia and US Foreign Policy

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Int'l Politics & Economics, Political Science, Russian, European Studies, and Russian and East European Studies
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.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

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

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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

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Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Political Science, Religion, Russian, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, European Studies, and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
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

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Reading Nabokov's "Lolita" with a Russian Accent by Alexander A. Dolinin

Sponsored by:
Russian
Alexander Dolinin is Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian literature. He has written widely on Nabokov in both Russian and English. Sponsored by the Department of Russian.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104

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