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Film Discussion in the French Embassy

On April 12, 2022, Professor Iwona Sadowska was invited to the French Embassy to discuss with Professor Katrin Sieg, Director of Georgetown BMW Center for German and European…

April 13, 2022

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NO to WAR Film Series – Friday, April 8, 4 pm – Beanpole (2019)

Our next film in the series, Beanpole (dir. Kantemir Balagov, 2019), explores the aftermath of war by centering women's lives in postwar Leningrad. It is a richly filmed and…

April 7, 2022

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A Conversation with Tinatin Japaridze

On Tuesday, April 12, please join us for a conversation with Tinatin Japaridze, author of Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism , a “fascinating,, …

April 5, 2022

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Anti-War Film Series

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April 5, 2022

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Celebration of Women’s History Month

Please join us to celebrate centuries of women’s writing and linguistic and cultural diversity at Georgetown! Great Women Writers – an evening of bilingual lightning…

April 5, 2022

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Ksenia Turkova, linguist, journalist (Voice of America) will give a talk on “The Words of the Year (2021) in Russian Media“

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 3.30 – 4.45 pm via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please write to Prof. Fedorova “Foreign agent”, “excess deaths”, and “Grandpa in the bunker”. How…

January 25, 2022

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ASEEES 2021 Convention – New Orleans, LA

Faculty of the Slavic Languages Department actively participated in the ASEEES 2021 Convention held on November 18 -21, 2021 (in-person) in New Orleans, LA, and on December 1-3,…

December 7, 2021

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Russia Brief: Soviet Nostalgia

Prof. Gorski will participate in the CERES webinar on Soviet Nostalgia on December 2, 2021 via Zoom @ 11am to 12pm. Registration link can be found.…

November 19, 2021

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Dangerous Memes and Lucifer’s Genes: Anti-Vaccine Narratives In Russia And Which Of Them Really Matter

With Dr. Alexandra Arkhipova, Wilson Center, Washington DC / Russia, RANEPA Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Time: 4:00-5:30 pm ET Co-Sponsors: Department of Slavic Languages,…

November 10, 2021

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The Post-Soviet Novel as World Literature

Presenter: Bradley Gorski, Assistant Professor of Slavic Literature Responder: Elliott Colla, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies …

November 3, 2021