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Month: October 2017

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord

Erica Drennan is a PhD Student in Russian Literature at Columbia University Upon arriving at Primary Stages’ production of The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, audience members were asked to choose a pin

Ani Kokobobo October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

An Unexpected Trifecta: War, Peace, and DH

Molly Godwin-Jones & Devin McFadden Molly Godwin-Jones & Devin McFadden are graduate students in the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas How do you get a linguist and a 20th century specialist interested in Tolstoy?

Ani Kokobobo October 11, 2017 Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

“And here it is, here it is”: Locating The Uncanny in War and Peace

by Suvij Sudershan Suvij Sudershan is an undergraduate student at McGill University Tolstoy’s War and Peace foregrounds the spatial dimension. This is especially relevant as the novel is set in times of the modern nation-state and the nineteenth century redefinition of

Ani Kokobobo October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 Contemporary Affairs, Literary Crticism, Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

Spirited in Flesh: A Mini-Conference on Tolstoy’s Art and Thought at Dartmouth College

By Victoria Juharyan Victoria Juharyan is a PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University (Lecturer at Dartmouth, during AY 2016-17). On May 26th, 2017 Dartmouth College hosted a conference on Tolstoy. This was an unusual conference. Dartmouth

Ani Kokobobo October 4, 2017October 9, 2017 Contemporary Affairs, Literary Crticism, Personal Reflection No Comments Read more

Registration for AATSEEL 2018

The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) will host its annual conference February 1-4, 2018 in Washington, DC.  Conference participants must have completed online registration by December 15th.  Online registration for conference attendees closes on

admin October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

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