Russian is a high-priority program for UH Manoa, as it relates to UH’s leadership in Pacific-Asian studies.
Our mission is to educate the Hawaii community about the critical importance of Russian Studies for the US national security, and to promote the knowledge about Russia as integral part of the Asia-Pacific region. Russian is the only critical needs language vital to the US national security interests, as defined by the US government, taught in the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe a
12/09/2025
Join us on Thursday for Russian club, we will be watching classic Russian cartoons such as cheburashka and many more!! See you on Thursday (12/11/25) at 12:00 pm in the Wiswell room. DM me with any questions you may have, hope to see you there!
12/04/2025
Russian club had the opportunity to attend UH Mānoa’s Explore Mānoa! The Russian students proudly wore traditional costumes to represent the culture of this beautiful language. During this open house, new and old students learned about the Russian program through connecting with current students, and playing games to win prizes! It was a successful weekend filled with fun, new friends, and Mānoa pride!
10/15/2025
Interview from RUS 201 student Dylan on his experience with the Russian program. #uhmanoa #russian
10/07/2025
Our own RUS201 student Katia Fenner ( ) treated us to a cookout and the Russian BORSCHT to end all borschts! 🥣✨
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10/03/2025
Come join us in Moore 252 at 12:00pm!
04/03/2025
n Summer Session I we offer an Online Asynchronous LLEA 354 course "Russia: Faces of Asia" (DL, CRN 92856). Wiswel scholarship available for eligible students (Junior or Senior, 3.0 GPA). Sign up here https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=202540&s=LLEA. Here is the course description: The multifaceted and complex image of Asia in Russian literature and visual culture through the last 200 years has evolved, defined by political events: the Russian conquest of the Caucasus and Central Asia, their inclusion as part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and then the creation of independent states. Embracing the issue of Orientalism, the notion of Central Asia, the postcolonial theory, the idea of the internal colonization and the question of post-Soviet identities, the course traces Orientalism, dominating, for example, in the ‘Caucasus text’ in Russian Romantic literature of that epoch as the most persistent discourse in depicting “Russian” Asia to this day. Faces of Asia synthesizes the connotations of Asia in Russian literature and culture from the first Orientalist works through hybridization processes, when literature reflects a gradual turn from Orientalism to Assimilation, a turn favored by multinational nature of Soviet literature and culture when "national" writers (artists and filmmakers) emerge and thrive alongside ethnic Russian authors, to the collapse of the USSR and the Post-Soviet trauma. In the middle of the course, we will zoom out to take a view of Russian literature and culture in the global Asian contexts: we will discover the continuing impact of the Mongol invasion; we will travel to India vicariously through a Russian artist’s diary and contemplate his hypnotic paintings of the Himalaya mountains; we will also explore cross-pollinations between Russian and Japanese arts of painting, woodblock prints, literature and cinema. Please help share the info.
01/17/2025