Russian

Eliot Borenstein’s forthcoming book, Plots Against Russia, is a study of the role of paranoid fantasy in contemporary Russian political discourse and culture. Rather than simply respond to every conspiracy theory that makes the news, or assume that conspiracy is somehow an exclusively Russian disorder, Borenstein examines the frameworks that have allowed conspiracy to flourish there.

Eliot Borenstein is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University.

Sarah Bidgood, CNS Senior Research Associate at MIIS, will speak about the status of US-Russian cooperation for nonproliferation and—with reference to US-Soviet cooperation under difficult circumstances— prospects for future US-Russian cooperation in light of current, strained relations.

“Writing Fiction as a Full-time Job,” followed by a Q & A.

Middlebury alumna and writer Katherine Arden (Katherine Burdine, ’11) lives in Vermont.  She is the NYT bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy: The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and The Winter of the Witch.  She is also the author of the middle grade horror novels Small Spaces and Dead Voices.

Sponsored by the Russian Department

“A wall, you see, is a wall…etc., etc.”: Materialism and Transcendence in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot

A talk by Tom Roberts ’01.

Robison Concert hall not available. Wilson Hall is reserved for student org. use in the evenings and weekends.

Reception for Russian Seniors and their families

The Departments of German, French, Russian, History, Political Science and the Programs in American Studies and International Studies/ European Studies invite students and faculty/ staff to join us for a special theme party, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and all it stands for!