Please read a very interesting article here by our recent Ph.D Yelena Severina in the latest issue of Kinokultura. Enjoy!
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Photos from the Multicultural Performance Night (2019)
Published: May 30, 2019On May 29, 2019, we had our annual Multicultural Performance Night. Thank you to our undergraduates for performing, and to our faculty and graduate students for coming!
Read More‘To Uncover the Secret of the Person, While Preserving the Secret as a Secret’ – A Review of the Bulgarian Dostoevsky Society’s International Symposium “The Anthropology of Dostoevsky”
Published: May 28, 2019by Peter Winsky In his letter of August 16, 1839, Fyodor Mikhailovich wrote to his brother Mikhail Mikhailovich that “the person is a mystery…I am studying that mystery because I…
Read MoreUCLA Winners of the Twentieth Annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
Published: May 6, 2019On April 1st, 2019, twelve of our undergraduate scholars received awards or honorable mentions by the Twentieth Annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest (NPSREC) organized by the American Council of…
Read MoreInterested in Learning Czech?
Published: April 23, 2019Are you a current UC student interested in learning Czech? Do you want to learn Czech for travel, study abroad, research, communication with your relatives or simply to know more…
Read MorePh.D Student Presents at IREX U.S. Russia Experts Program Summit
Published: February 8, 2019
Lydia Roberts, 3rd year Ph.D. student, presented her research project, titled “Mass Isolation: Aspects of the Russian and US Prison Systems” at the IREX U.S. Russia Experts Program Summit on…
Read MoreSlavic Department’s PhD Student Lydia Roberts Interviews Marianna Yarovskaya, Director Of “Women Of The Gulag”
Published: January 15, 2019
When a country experiences genocide, is talking about what happened the best way to heal from the past? Why is it important to preserve the memory of what happened and…
Read MoreAPPLY NOW! Departmental Honors Program
Published: December 12, 2018HEY BRUINS! Are you a junior majoring in Central & East European Languages & Cultures, Russian Language & Literature, or Russian Studies? Do you have a 3.5 major GPA and…
Read MoreDr. Igor Pilshchikov Appointed Professor of Russian
Published: November 26, 2018We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Igor Pilshchikov as Professor of Russian in our Department. One of our profession’s foremost specialists on the Russian “Golden Age,” with…
Read MoreGeorgiana Galateanu honored with the Romanian Cultural Merit Decoration
Published: September 4, 2018
On August 30, 2018 Lecturer Georgiana Galateanu was honored by the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Iohannis, with the Cultural Merit (Cavalier Order) Decoration for Promoting the Teaching of Romanian…
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