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Harvard Summer in Tbilisi

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The Harvard Summer Program in Tbilisi, Georgia, provides students with a full course in intermediate-level Russian language instruction along with opportunities to explore Russian and Georgian culture, history, literature, film, and urban studies...

Harvard Summer in Tbilisi

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The Harvard Summer Program in Tbilisi, Georgia, provides students with a full course in intermediate-level Russian language instruction along with opportunities to explore Russian and Georgian culture, history, literature, film, and urban studies...

GSAS Lecture: Alexander Spektor, "Literature as Philosophy: Deconstructing Plato in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 'In the Pupil.'"

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Alexander (Sasha) Spektor is an Assistant Professor of Russian at the University of Georgia. He received his doctorate from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University in 2008.

Eliso

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DISCOVERING GEORGIAN CINEMA—THE SILENT ERA September 26 – October 24 This series highlights four breathtaking films from Soviet Georgia— Eliso, Saba, Salt for Svanetia and Nail in the Boot—with live, musical accompaniment. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film...

Salt for Svanetia/Nail in the Boot

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DISCOVERING GEORGIAN CINEMA—THE SILENT ERA September 26 – October 24 This series highlights four breathtaking films from Soviet Georgia— Eliso, Saba, Salt for Svanetia and Nail in the Boot—with live, musical accompaniment. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film...

Jerry White: “Autonomists, Mensheviks, and Social Democrats, oh my! The Cinema of Georgia’s First Independence Period”

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This talk will introduce, in very broad strokes, Georgian filmmaking of the first independence period (1918-1921), primarily a matter of six surviving newsreels collectively known as the Menshevik Chronicle. Jerry White is Canada Research Chair in...

"Everburning Pilot" and "For the Shrew": Two Poets, Two Books, Three Translators

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Anna Glazova, Independent Poet and Scholar; Visiting Professor, Dartmouth University Leonid Schwab, Poet, Independent Artist Alex Niemi, Independent Artist, Translator, and Bookbinder Alexander Spektor, Associate Professor, University of Georgia Anton...

Saba

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DISCOVERING GEORGIAN CINEMA—THE SILENT ERA September 26 – October 24 This series highlights four breathtaking films from Soviet Georgia— Eliso, Saba, Salt for Svanetia and Nail in the Boot—with live, musical accompaniment. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film...

Crafting Sincerity: How Conflicting Cultural Codes Structure the Writing and Reading of Sincerity in Poetry

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Stuart Goldberg, Professor of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures How have poets in recent centuries been able to inscribe...

Sasha Spektor

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Contact: spektoa@uga.edu

 

Undergraduate Language Requirement

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Those students wishing to fulfill the foreign language requirement in a Slavic language may do so in various ways: Ÿby earning a passing score on the Departmental placement exam (exams available in Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, and Bosnian/Croatian...

Olga Breininger-Umetayeva

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Provisional Dissertation Title:

«Wonderland, Terrorland, Sonderland: Northern Caucasus as Liminal Timespace». 

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M.Phil. In Modern Languages (Russian & German), University of Oxford (distinction)
B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, Gorky...