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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

Open to the Public

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

Open to the Public

International karaoke

Sponsored by:
Russian
Come join us for a fantastic international karaoke night! Language departments are presenting songs in different languages. Free snacks! If you want to perform, contact your TA, or send an email to am@middlebury.edu. We need to have the list of the songs by Friday, April 15.

McCullough Wilson Cafe

Open to the Public

Images of the US in Putin's Russia: High policy and popular geopolitics

Sponsored by:
Sputnik, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, and Russian
International and Global Studies Colloquium “Images of the US in Putin’s Russia: High policy and popular geopolitics” by Victoria Zuravleva, professor of history, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.

Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; suggested $5 donation for others; RSVP by 11/7 to rcga@middlebury.edu. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Departments of Russian and History, Russian and East European Studies Program.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Negotiating Meaning: Translating at a War Crimes Tribunal: Ellen Elias Bursac lecture

Sponsored by:
Russian
How can defendants be tried if they cannot understand the charges being raised against them? Can a witness testify if the judges and attorneys cannot understand what the witness is saying? Can a judge decide whether to convict or acquit if she or he cannot read the documentary evidence? The very viability of international criminal prosecution and adjudication hinges on the massive amounts of translation and interpreting that are required in order to run these lengthy, complex trials, and the procedures for handling the demands facing language services.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Free
Open to the Public