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The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Russian Club hosted an event celebrating the traditional Russian holiday and spring festival of Maslenitsa on March 8 on the university campus. Analogous to the Western traditions of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, Maslenitsa combines features of Russian folk culture and Orthodox Christianity in heralding the arrival of...

High schools students from the Boulder Valley and Fort Collins school districts explored the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ campus on February 10, 2016 as part of the German Language Immersion Day. High school students participated in sessions on German film and Austrian art. They also tested their knowledge on German geography, economy, music,...

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Beginning in fall semester 2016, students at Widefield High School in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Springs will be able to receive first-semester German language college credit while completing their upper-level German classes. The idea of a dual credit program started when German high school teacher Maureen Richards (an alumna of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ German...

For Svetlana Alexievich, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Soviet Union is a kind of ‘historical Chernobyl that still produces contamination and radiation—psychological, historical, political and cultural,’ Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder expert Mark Leiderman observes. He says now is a good time for students and the world to learn...

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Our former teaching assistant and then lecturer Dr. Meghan Vicks has published a book Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Cntury Literature at Bloomsbury Press ( http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/narratives-of-nothing-in-20th-century-literature-9781501307232/ ). The book is based on her dissertation defended at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ. In the book’s Acknowledgement Meghan generously thanks our faculty members Rimgaila Salys, Davide Stimilli,...

In early 2013, Erika set off to Bavaria to focus on German and media studies at the Universität Regensburg. She spent the following two years in Berlin, where she took language courses at the Goethe Institut and did an online marketing internship for the international analog camera company Lomography. “Doing...

The Board of Regents has approved a MA/ BA-MA program in Russian Studies! Congratulations to all Russian faculty and students! From the Board’s news: “The board approved a new master of arts in a Russian studies degree program for the Boulder campus. The new interdisciplinary program, which will be housed...