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APRIL 4-5, HHSOM Piano lessons with UGA students, limited openings for observation (UGA faculty and students only), contact Dr. Liza Stepanova for details. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 7:30 p.m. RAMSEY HALL UGA Performing Arts Center Brief performance by Mikhail Voskresensky and interview led by Dr. Liza Stepanova (HHSOM) and Dr. Alexandra Shapiro (Russian Flagship Program) THURSDAY, APRIL 6 10:30am-12:30pm EDGE HALL Hugh Hodgson School of Music Mikhail…
We’re pleased to announce that thanks to generous support from GSS, the Willson Center, and the Department of Journalism, renowned Russian independent journalist Elena Kostyuchenko will be visiting our campus on March 19th.  Elena will present her new book I Love Russia and have a discussion with the UGA community on March 19, 4:00pm, at MLC 148.  Kostyuchenko was the first journalist to write about…
The German-Engineering Program is hosting Dr. Kai Furmans from KIT to discuss our world's challenges. In his lecture, Dr. Furmans argues for two perspectives surrounding global warming. The first is trying to forbid everything which pollutes and emits CO2, especially by reducing consumption and travel. (Degrowth movement), since technical inventions have led to more combustion of fossil fuels. The second is to find technical solutions for the…
Men Sen Emes. Thursday, February 9, 2023, 8pm EST. Live Zoom Q&A in Russian with Katerina Suvorova, Director of the documentary film about Ninety One, a Kazakh Q-Pop boy band that challenges traditional societal values. Bring your questions about Kazakhstan, music, and other aspects of life in Central Asia! Exclusive event for Russian Flagship Program students. UGA RFP students - check your email or contact sivanova@uga.edu…
Snapshots of the Soul: Writing the Photograph in 20th and 21st Century Russian Poetry Dr. Molly T. Blasing will present material from her recent book, Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Cornell UP, 2021). Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. In this talk, we will consider examples of photo-poetic writing by…
Join Dr. Niko Tracksdorf, Associate Director of the German International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island, as he discusses the intersection between STEM and language learning. "Foreign language educators focus not only on language acquisition, but also on nurturing students to become creative, intercultural, interdisciplinary and critical thinkers that can apply their skills in their current and future lives and careers…
Michał Głuszkowski, a visiting scholar working on a research project titled Slavs in Georgia, USA: Short- and Long-Term Family Language Policy in Diaspora, will give a personal eyewitness account in Russian on the refugee response in Poland. Presented by the UGA Russian Flagship Program and UGA Russian Club. Please note, the lecture will be in Russian.
Jeffrey Schneider is Assoc. Professor of German and Chair of the German Studies Department at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. His teaching interests include language courses; drama; literature and culture from the turn of the century; popular culture; and lesbian, bisexual and gay studies. Together with Silke von der Emde, he developed an online German-language learning environment called MOOssiggang, which is currently used in the…
Join us for a reading, discussion, and screening of film clips with Thomas Pletzinger, author of the biography on German/American basketball legend Dirk Nowitzki: „The Great Nowitzki - Basketball and the Meaning of Life” (W.W. Norton, 2022)   Mr. Pletzinger is a Berlin-based German novelist, journalist, sportswriter, and translator.  He studied American Studies in Hamburg and Creative Writing at the German…
As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its orientation from communicative to symbolic for the heritage language community. The change toward a broadening of the symbolic uses of the language is a hallmark of the post-vernacular stage of language shift. This presentation explores how Pennsylvania Dutch is used among non-sectarians (non-Amish / Mennonites) in southeastern Pennsylvania today. Dr. Brown will share in a virtual…

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