Kenyon MLL Russian Language Program

09/30/2022

Please join us tomorrow for Russian Table; for the moment we still meet at 11:00am on Fridays in the Alumni Dining Room

(Peirce Hall, lower level). All are welcome :)

09/28/2022

There's still some time to sign up!

Please read this invitation to participate in a Master Class in Russian Pronunciation with Kim DiMattia. Participation is free if you register as an observer (see below). For a more participant-involved paid option, please contact Kim at [email protected]

Master Class in Russian Pronunciation

Registration for the Fall 2022 session is now open.

Basic information:

5 Zoom classes on Thursday evenings
First class is on 9/29/22 at 7 p.m. ET
Registration deadline is 9/28/22
First class is 2 hours long; other classes are 1.5 hours long
Useful for students and teachers
Observers attend for free and come & go as needed; they watch in the background (video off)
Paid options to participate as a student with individualized feedback on pronunciation are also available. For more information, contact Kim.

09/23/2022

It's not too late to join Tsoi Fest! zoom in honor of the late 80's Soviet Rock icon Victor Tsoi:

2 PM (EST) Roundtable Discussion with Stingray, Rachid Nougmanov, and Alexander Tsoi: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/97856458479

Rachid Nugmanov is the founder of the Kazakh New Wave, who filmed the legendary rock musician Viktor Tsoi in "The Needle" (Игла). Joanna Stingray is an American musician who participated in the Leningrad rock scene in the 1980s, and helped popularise Soviet rock abroad. Unfortunately, Alexander Tsoi was unable to make it for personal & political reasons.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Roundtable Discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

04/08/2022

A Day at the Movies: RUSS 322 takes an April Friday to watch some films!☺️

03/30/2022

Join us tomorrow for the first in-person Russian Table in 2 years. We will meet at 12:10pm in the Alumni Dining Room
(Peirce Hall, lower level); feel free to bring your lunch. All are welcome.

--- Professor McGavran

03/22/2022

https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/22/nobelevskaia-medal-peredaetsia-iz-novoi-gazety-v-polzu-ukrainskikh-bezhentsev (in Russian)

https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/22/novaya-gazeta-and-dmitry-muratov-hand-over-the-nobel-medal-in-favor-of-ukrainian-refugees (English Translation)

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/putin_russia_ukraine_independent_media.php

Incredible generosity on the part of Muratov to help aid Ukranians in the midst of a war of violence, ESPECIALLY in the context of Russia's domestic war on information.

One very long week ago, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, published an interview that he had conducted over email with Dmitry Muratov, his counterpart at the long-standing Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, around the latter’s “crowded schedule of editorial meetings, street demonstratio...

03/17/2022