Columbia University in the City of New York

Department of Slavic Languages

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

Bobok, the Barnard-Columbia Slavic Department Band

BLACK SEA MYTHS AND MODERN EUROPE - Friday, October 6, 2017 3:00pm Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

Yuri Shevchuk speaks at the United Nations International Mother Language Day, on Feb 22, 2016

"Graduate course on Academic Discourse - March, 2017"

Black Sea Networks

Valentina Izmirlieva delivers the inaugural memorial Shevelov Lecture in Ukrainian Studies (April 2018, Columbia University)

Welcome to the Slavic Department!

On our website, you can find out more about our faculty, our students, and our undergraduate and graduate offerings in Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages, literatures, and cultures. Choose a link in the menu to the left, click here for a list of Fall 2017 courses conducted in English with no prerequisites, or check us out on Facebook.

CALENDAR of EVENTS

Russian Placement Test – Fall 2019

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 3:00pm

Russian Placement Test – Fall 2019

The Russian placement test consists of two parts – written (grammar and essay--about two hours) and oral (a 20-minute long interview). The written part will be offered on Wednesday, August 28 at 3:00-5:00 in Kent 413.

Follow-up oral interviews will be held on Thursday, August 29in Ham 707 (the sign-up sheet for interviews will be available at the written part of the test on August 28).

Please make your travel plans accordingly.
Questions? Contact Alla Smyslova as2157@columbia.edu

SOPHIE PINKHAM WRITES ABOUT "UKRAINE'S NEW LEADING MAN" FOR NYRB

Sophie Pinkham (Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. Slavic Languages) contributed an essay on Volodymyr Zelensky, "Ukraine's New Leading Man," to the New York Review of Books (June 27, 2019).

"Watching Servant of the People today is an eerie experience. In April Volodymyr Zelensky, the actor who plays Vasyl, was elected Ukraine’s president in a landslide, with 73 percent of the vote. The unpopular incumbent, Petro Poroshenko, who was elected in 2014 shortly after the Maidan protests that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, received just 24 percent. Zelensky’s newly founded party is called Servant of the People, and his campaign was essentially a spin-off of his show. At first it seemed like a joke: Zelensky is a professional comedian, after all, though he is also a successful businessman at the head of what has often been called a comedy empire. Like Vasyl, he has no previous political experience, though he has connections that Vasyl could never have dreamed of."

Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon - Aleksandar Boskovic

Bošković has been named a Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon for the 2019-20 academic year for his project, "Bioscopic Book: Slavic Avant-Garde Cinépoetry." The Collegium de Lyon, an Institute for Advanced Studies within the Université de Lyon, hosts researchers in an environment allowing them to focus fully on innovative scientific research projects.

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