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Graduate Student Sydney Stotter Wins Nabokov Prize

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We are pleased to announce that Sydney Stotter, a second-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures, has been awared the International Vladimir Nabokov Society's 2023 Dieter Zimmer Pifer prize for best postgraduate work. The prize was awared for...

Exploring Fields of Study 2024

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Undergraduates! Join the Slavic Department for Exploring Fields of Study on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. on the 3 rd floor of the Barker Center to learn more about the Slavic concentration and secondary field options. Exploring Fields of...

Myth, Dialectics … and Persecution: Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and the GAKhNovtsy

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Edythe Haber, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston Mikhail Bulgakov’s move at the end of 1924 from his “cursed” apartment on Sadovaya Street (immortalized in The Master and Margarita) to a flat in the Prechistenka neighborhood brought...

Applications Open! Jurzykowski Summer Polish Grants for 2024 Language Study

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Applications are now open for 2024 Jurzykowski Summer Polish Grants! Open to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. Apply by March 18, 2024, 9:00am, in CARAT. Graduate Summer Language Study Summer funding for current graduate students to attend...

Ice Skating Outing 2024

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Faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and staff, join us for an afternoon of Slavic music and ice skating fun! Skates provided at the rink or bring your own. All are welcome. Spins and triple-axels not required. RSVP by 9:00 am on February 26, 2024...

POSTPONED: Three Emigrations of Anna Akhmatova

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Note: This event is postponed until further notice. Roman Timenchik, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Moderator: Daria Khitrova, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emigrate...

Purging Queerness in Soviet Ukraine: The Prosecution of Sergei Paradzhanov

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Alex Averbuch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Moderator: Daria Khitrova, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures In late December 2023, fifty years after the...

Welcoming Professor Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

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The Slavic Department extends a warm welcome to Professor Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures for spring 2024. For the spring term at Harvard, she will teach Slavic 164: Literature of Catastrophe: Ukraine 1917-2022 and...

Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution of the Cold War Era

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Yasha Klots, Assistant Professor, Hunter College Moderator: Daria Khitrova, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Throughout the Soviet century, tamizdat (literally, “published over there,” or...

Entangled Worlds of Europe's Wildest Forest: Notes from the Polish-Belarusian Borderland

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Weintraub Lecture in Polish Literature and Culture Julia Fiedorczuk, Associate Professor, University of Warsaw Moderator: Aleksandra Kremer, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Puszcza...

Congratulating Professor Jonathan Bolton on translation of Everything Indicates by Petr Hruška

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The Department congratulates our colleague Professor Jonathan Bolton on his newly-published translation of Everything Indicates by Petr Hruška (Blue Diode Publishing, 2023). From the press: "Petr Hruška is one of the Czech Republic’s leading contemporary...

Karaoke and Game Night 2024

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The Slavic Department invites undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to Slavic Karaoke and Game Night on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Thompson Room (110), Barker Center. Sing your heart out, enjoy snacks, and learn...