News/ Events

Slavic Studies major is a Rhodes Scholar finalist

Susana Hancock '07, a linguistics and Slavic studies major, was selected as a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship. A Winthrop Scholar, the college's highest academic award, Hancock won the Slavic Studies Award for Consistent Excellence in 2007, the Best Translation of Slavic Fiction Award in 2006 and 2007 and the Svetlana Kasem-Beg Award for fluency and pronunciation in Russian in 2005. She hopes to pursue a Master's in Philosophy in linguistics. Read the news story.

The Russian Program is wired and connected! 

Since the fall of 2007, each student taking Elementary Russian receives an iPod containing authentic cultural materials (such as popular music, folk songs, poetry, music videos, cartoons) and language exercises.

Annual Events

The Slavic Department hosts a number of annual events for Slavic Studies students and the entire campus. Some of the most popular are:

• Elka (Christmas) Celebration in December, with Slavic cuisine and music by the Connecticut College Slavic Chorus.
• Russian Maslenitsa (Carnival) in the spring, featuring traditional Russian blini and poetry readings by Slavic Studies students and faculty
• Russian Paskha (Easter) Celebration, with the traditional Russian paskha (four-sided pyramid cream cheese dessert)
• Film Series of Russian, Czech, and Polish cinema
• Public lectures by visiting faculty and Slavic Studies alumni

Last Modified: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:46