News & Events

Setchkarev Memorial Prizes Announced

June 5, 2017

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures congratulates the winners of this year's prizes awarded by the Setchkarev Memorial Prize Committee for graduate student essay, best doctoral dissertation, and the Sloane Memorial prizes for most promising scholar in the 2016-17 academic year:

Best graduate student essay

Raymond DeLuca, PhD Candidate (G-1)

Essay title: “Diegetic Instability in Deep Space: Mapping the soundscape of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris”...

Three PhD students successfully defend dissertations, 5/8/17.

May 9, 2017

Congratulations to the following new Slavic PhD's who defended their dissertations yesterday afternoon:

Alexandre Gontchar, PhD, March 2017

Dissertation title: “Three Easy Pieces: Tolstoy, Khlebnikov, Platonov and the fragile absolute of Russian modernity”

Vera Koshkina, PhD, May 2017

Dissertation title: “On the Margins of Experiment: State sponsorship of radical aesthetics in Soviet

cinema, 1960–1968”

Iaroslava...

Russian language students excel in national essay competition with 7 medalists and 20 total awards.

May 9, 2017

2017 National Russian Essay Competition (NPSREC)

Congratulations to our students and teachers! We received 20 total awards (up from 16 last year) including 1 Silver Medal, 6 Bronze Medals, and 13 Honorable Mentions.

With 7 medalists and 20 total awards, Harvard continues its rivalry with Columbia University (8 medalists, 21 total awards — we’ve been neck and neck and switching places the past few years) for the highest number of medalists of all participating universities and highest number of...

College Fellow Position for 2017-18 available

April 18, 2017

If interested, please see these two links:

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7376

http://facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/how-apply

"Charta Story" opens in Prague with contributions from Preceptor Veronika Tuckerova.

March 30, 2017

The exhibition "Charta Story" has just opened at the National Gallery in Prague. It focuses on the important dissident organization from 1970s-1980s, called Charter 77. Slavic Department Czech preceptor, Veronika Tuckerova, wrote texts in the exhibition halls and catalogue for this project. The exhibition will run until January 2019.

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Article: “Ceremonial ‘Russian dress’ as a phenomenon of court culture” – co-authored by Daniel Green, published in Clothing Cultures

March 27, 2017

Daniel Green, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, recently co-authored an article entitled “Ceremonial ‘Russian dress’ as a phenomenon of court culture” with Svetlana Amelekhina, Head of the Textiles Department of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. It appeared in a special issue of Clothing Cultures dedicated to clothing in imperial Russia.

Harvard affiliates can download the PDF...

Career Opportunity: Widener Library seeks new Head of Slavic Division

January 25, 2017

Please see attached document to view the job description.

To learn more or to apply please visit or employment site http://hr.harvard.edu/search-jobs and enter 41484BR in the Auto Req ID field.

Review: "Bolshoi Confidential" - Professor Daria Khitrova in New York Times

November 14, 2016

Slavic Department Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Daria Khitrova, has recently had her book review of “Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet From the Rule of the Tsars to Today” published in the New York Times. Click below to read:

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Michael Kunichika recognized in ASEEES Vucinich Prize competition

November 2, 2016

Warm congratulations to Michael Kunichika, whose book “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism (Academic Studies Press) has received Honorable Mention in the ASEEES Wayne C. Vucinich Prize competition.

Olga Breininger - "As I Put the Hijab On" (Forbes)

September 30, 2016

Please take a few minutes to read an excellent article by Olga Breininger, a G4 in the Slavic Department. It's wonderful to see this piece published in Forbes!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/09/16/as-i-put-the-hijab-on/#4edb34516643

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