Freelance journalist Mark Temnycky will speak on his work reporting on and from Ukraine.
Learn from Maryann Sivak, president of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society, about the history of the Carpatho-Russyn community in Pittsburgh, followed by a Slavjane dance performance, hosted by Dean Polska and Alexis McCormick of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society
Join students and staff to learn greetings and other simple phrases in several (but not nearly all) languages of Russian, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. You can participate in as many virtual language tables as you like, or focus on one or two.
Join the Russian Club of the University of Pittsburgh to learn about matryoshka dolls (nesting dolls). Children and the young at heart can paint or color their own nesting dolls with materials provided to the first 10 participants by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.
The audience will learn about teas of the silk road, including brewing techniques. The first ten participants to register can pick up complimentary tea samples at Dobra Tea House in Squirrel Hill. The teas will be available for purchase for other participants.
Join us as REEES, and the Pitt Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Clubs launch the first virtual East European Festival. We will share our plans for the week and share the ground rules for the at-home art competition.
This workshop for Pitt STARTALK program staff and other high school and college level Russian language instructors includes sessions on adapting materials for proficiency-based learning activities and assessments; teaching novice level students using a proficiency-based approach; and proficiency-based and content-based teaching in the advanced language classroom.
Jewish Studies Work in Progress Series.
Lunch Provided, RSVP by September 9 to jsp@pitt.edu
Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She studied East European and Jewish history in Poland, where she received her first doctoral degree in history at Warsaw University, with a dissertation that resulted in her first book, “Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944-1950.” She received her second doctoral degree in Jewish studies at New York University.
Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women as last survivors of the Gulag. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago largely tells of the men caught in Stalin's camps and special settlements for "crimes against the state." Women of the Gulag, features six women in their eighties and nineties as they tell their stories while going about their daily lives in remote Urals villages, in break-away Sukhumi, or in Moscow suburbs. Their only hesitancy to speak out relates to sexual violence, about which they would only hint. Sadly, three died shortly after their interviews.
