You are invited to our annual Fall Open House on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 from 3:00-4:00 pm in the Barker Center 3rd floor hallway.
Enjoy delicious regional treats, meet faculty and students, and bring your questions about our undergraduate program. We welcome double concentrators—that is, students who plan to fulfill degree requirements for Slavic as well as another field. We look forward to seeing you there!
Calling all undergraduates! Stop by our table at the Academic Fair next Friday, August 26, from 1-3 pm at the Science Center Plaza to meet faculty and learn more about our classes and Language...
Alex Braslavsky has published an excellent essay on Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale and the art of translation. It’s on the NYU Jordan Center blog, All the Russias, and is published as the runner-up in the competition they recently ran for graduate student essays. You can read it here: ...
Writer Colum McCann, the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin, will introduce his latest epic novel Apeirogon and the global educational organization Narrative 4 in conversation with Veronika Tuckerova, Harvard lecturer in Slavic languages and literatures.
Colum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon—named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, is a tour de force concerning...
Czech Zone 2: Comenius at 350! In Czech and English.
On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the death of the 17th century poet, pedagogue, and theologian John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), students of Czech come together with Houghton Library curators to perform dialogues and vignettes in an online montage of words, images, and music. Have you ever wondered what a beehive is and how it works? Why Cotton Mather invited Comenius to lead Harvard College?
Tune in for a good old allegorical schooling on the hows and whys of the world on Friday...