Columbia University in the City of New York

Department of Slavic Languages

Bobok, the Barnard-Columbia Slavic Department Band

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

Black Sea Networks

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

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

"Graduate course on Academic Discourse - March, 2017"

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

Russian Language students at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, January 2018

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

The Moscow-Tartu Semiotic School: New Trends

Monday, November 18, 2019 - 6:30pm

THE LAND OF OZ (2015)

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 7:30pm

Mark Lipovetsky to Speak at The New Humanities Faculty Salons

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 5:00pm

CLOSENESS (2017)

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 7:30pm

THE HOPE FACTORY (2014)

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - 7:30pm

RUSSIAN FILM CLUB ANNOUNCES 2019-2020 SEASON

The Russian Film Club, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Languages) and Daria Ezerova (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harriman Institute), has announced its 2019-2020 season, "Russian Cinema between Protests." Released betrween two waves of protests, spanning the years 2011-19, the Club's selection of independent films offer a critical reflection on life in contemporary Russia, cutting across genres and styles.

First screening: October 16, 7:30 PM, ZOOLOGY (2016) by Ivan Tverdovsky. Location: MATH 417

All films will be presented with English subtitles.

Introduction and moderation of discussions by Lipovetsky and Ezerova.

Stay tuned for special events with the filmmakers.

Adam Leeds, 2020 - 2021 Heyman Fellow

Assistant Professor Adam Leeds is the recipient of the 2020 - 2021 Heyman Fellowship. Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts & Sciences, the Heyman Center Fellowships provide four junior and four senior Columbia faculty with course relief during the academic year. These fellowships allow faculty to reduce their teaching loads to a minimum of one course per semester during the award year in order to conduct research and to participate in a regular weekly seminar, chaired by the Heyman Fellows Seminar Director (a member of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities). In 2020-2021, we anticipate the seminar directors to be Eugenia Lean (EALAC) and Dorothea Von Mücke (German). For more information on the Heyman Fellowship, please click here.

Irina Reyfman - 2019 Recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies

The Outstanding Achievement Award recognizes the accomplishments of established leaders in the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian women’s and gender studies. Their contributions have broken new ground in the discipline and laid the groundwork for others. For more information, please click here.

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