Upcoming Events
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Past Events
2019 - 2020
Spring '20
Russian Culture Week (March 9 - 13)
What About Tomorrow?
A lecture on the history of punk music in the USSR and Russia by Alexander Herbert
Monday, March 9
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Mandel Reading Room (303)
Alexander Herbert is a PhD candidate in the history department at Brandeis University focusing on the history of the late Soviet Union. His research interests include environmentalism, youth culture, macabre film, music, and politics toward the end of the socialist experiment. He is a veteran vegan, self-ascribed environmentalist, occasional musician, opportunistic freelance writer and translator, and fan of beet and pickle pizza.Make Your Own Cheburashka
Wednesday, March 11Student Talent Show
Pelmeni Making Night
Russian Tea
Come practice your Russian skills and enjoy tasty refreshments at Russian Tea!
Russian Tea will meet in Shiffman 121. The dates are as follows:
Time: 6:30 - 8:00
Fall 2019
An Evening with Vera Pavlova: A Multi-Media Performance of Poetry and Tchaikovsky's Music
Monday, November 18
Rapaporte Hall
Vera Pavlova presents A Multi-Media Performance of Poetry and Tchaikovsky's Music. She will perform her work, "The Children's Album", set to the music by Tchaikovsky.
2019 Mega Language Lunch
Tuesday, Nov. 1912:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Sherman Function Hall
Русский чай (Russian Tea) past dates:
October 10, 6:30-8:00pm
November 7, 6:30-8:00pm
December 5, 6:30-8:00pm
2018–2019
Fall 2018
Русский чай (Russian Tea)
Select Wednesday evenings
6:30–8 p.m.
Shiffman 121
Cookies and conversation!
2017–2018
Русский чай (Russian Tea)
Join us for cookies and conversation! Hosted by Katerina Rudykh, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant for the Russian Language Program.
The Spring 2018 dates and topics include:
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Jan. 24: Russian Fortune Telling: We all are psychics.
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Feb. 7: Russian Slang: How to sound like a Russian.
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Feb. 14 Saint Valentine's Day: All you need is love!
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Feb. 28: Maslenitsa! Let's say good-bye to winter! Effigy of Zima and Russian bliny!
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March 21: Board Games Night: Enjoy Russian board games!
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April 11: Russian Easter And The Last Russian Tea: Color eggs and say goodbye to Katerina.
For details, contact Katerina Rudykh. Also, join the Russian Tea Facebook group for updates and information about related events and activities!
2016–2017
International Video Competition
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Spring 2017 dates and topics:
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January 26: Russian Fortune Telling
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February 16: Pre-Saint Valentine's Movie Night (originally scheduled on Feb. 9, rescheduled due to snow storm)
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March 2: Maslenitsa!
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March 16: Russia Trivia Night
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March 30: Animation Night
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April 20: Russian Easter and the Last Russian Tea
Russian Culture Week
March 6–10, 2017
2015–2016
2016 International Video Competition
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Chekhov, Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre: Against the Backdrop of the Century
Featuring Anatoly Smeliansky, Russian theatre writer, scholar, and critic and head of the Moscow Art Theatre (MXAT) School for Academic Studies
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Teleconference with Russian Students at Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Russian Culture Week 2016: March 7-11
Traditional Russian Dolls Workshop
Monday, March 7, 2016
In Memory of Our Murdered (Jewish) Children: Hearing the Holocaust in Soviet Jewish Culture
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Student Talent Show
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Russian Movie Night
Friday, March 11, 2016
Author Event: Ludmila Ulitskaya
Thursday, January 21, 2016
I Am Global Week Presents: "Tuva: A Turkic-speaking, throat-singing, Buddhism/Shamanism-practicing culture of the Russian Federation"
Featuring Rossina Soyan, Fulbright grantee and teaching assistant for the Russian Language Program
Nov.18, 2015
I Am Global Week Presents: "Ukraine 2015: National Identity and Civilian Volunteers During War"
Featuring Matthew Kupfer '12
Nov. 17, 2015
I Am Global Week Language Lunch
Nov. 17, 2015
"A Replacement Life": A Reading and Conversation with Boris Fishman
Moderated by Professor ChaeRan Freeze
Nov. 12, 2015
Russian Contemporary Film Festival (Exclusively at Brandeis!)
Presented by the Brandeis Russian Studies Program and Eurochannel.
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September 24: My Dad is Baryshnikov
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October 1: Another Year
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October 8: The Admirer
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October 15: Thirst
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October 22: Jolly Fellows
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October 29: The Admirer
Check out the feature in The Brandeis Hoot!
"The Limits of the Allowable: How to Feel the Borders of Freedom Under Totalitarianism"
Featuring Dmitry Bykov
Oct. 6, 2015
2014–2015
Spring 2015 European Cultural Studies Lemon Cake Lecture: "Bakhtin and the Actor"
Featuring Caryl Emerson
A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Princeton University
March 18, 2015
Russian Culture Week 2015: March 2-7
Russian Tea (Русский чай) Spring 2015
Select Wednesday evenings
"Fame and Fortune: On Writing a New Life of Tchaikovsky"
Featuring Philip Ross Bullock, Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College
Jan. 13, 2015
Russian Club at the Global Bazaar
Nov. 12, 2014
"The Other Stories in Anna Karenina: A Translator's Perspective"
Featuring Rosamund Bartlett, PhD
Nov. 3, 2014
Poetry Reading with Vera Pavlova
Oct. 21, 2014
For more information about Vera Pavlova, visit verapavlova.us.
Image: Vera Pavlova (left) and Professor Irina Dubinina (right) listen as a student reads one of Ms. Pavlova's poems in translation.