Russian Language & Literature
Русский язык и русская литература в Рид–колледже

Calendar - Spring 2008

Date Time Place Event Type
Fri. Feb 8
Sat. Feb. 9
Sun. Feb. 10		 8:30 pm
2:00 pm
8:00 pm		 Broadway 3
1000 SW BDWY		 A. Sokurov,
“Alexandra”		 film
Sun. Feb. 10,
Mon. Feb.  11
Tue. Feb.  12		 7:15 pm
8:30 pm
6:00 pm		   A. Tsabadze
“The Russian Triangle”		 film
Sun Feb 10
Mon Feb 11		 7:15 pm
7:15 pm		 WH
Bdwy 3		 S. Bordrov
“Mongol”		 film
Thur. March 6  4:30 pm Vollum 110 Dr. Karen Evans-Romaine* ""On Wings of Song: Romantic Image-Makers in Russian Modernism" lecture
Wed March 26 4:15 pm Eliot 314 Dr. Paul Friedrich* “Eugene Onegin with the Brothers Karamazov.” lecture
Mon. March 31 12 noon Karen Bondaruk office, Vollum 320 Thesis DRAFT DEADLINE  
Th Apr 10 1:10-2:30 Vollum 126 Dr. Judson Rosengrant, “Tolstoy’s Childhood, Boyhood, Youth lecture
Satur. Apr 12   Portland State University The 14th Annual Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Northwest Conference conference
Tu Apr 14 1:10 – 2:30 Vollum 126 Dr. Judson Rosengrant, “Tolstoy’s Childhood, Boyhood, Youth” Lecture
Fri. Apr. 25 Noon Vollum 320 Junior Qualifying Exam in Russian Exam
Thur. May 1
APRIL 24 (?)		 5:00 – 7:30 Winch (?) Evening of Russian Poetry Celebration
Fri. May 2 3:00 pm Registar’s Office SENIOR THESES are due in (4 copies).  
M-F, May 5-9 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 1-3 p.m., or 3-5 p.m.   Thesis Orals Boards (scheduled by the Division)  

 

*Karen Evans-Romaine: PhD, 1996 University of Michigan. Associate Professor of Russian at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Professor Evans-Romaine is a specialist in early twentieth-century Russian poetry, particularly the work of Boris Pasternak, German-Russian literary relations, and literature and music. She has a degree in music, piano performance. Other scholar interests include the history of modern Russian culture, European literature and music in the modern era, and the foreign language teaching methodology. She is a co-author of Russian language textbook for the beginners "Golosa".  

*Paul Friedrich: PhD, Yale 1957. University of Chicago. Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and in the Committee on Social Thought, and Associate in Slavic, has done fieldwork in southwestern Mexico, South India, and among Russians. Other research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European, and American poetry. His current work is divided between anthropology and literary studies (e.g., Homeric Greek, Towstoy, Thoreau) and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics. (Retired 6/96; still teaching at University of Chicago.)