It is with deep sadness and disbelief that we face the passing of our colleague Robert Bird, who died Monday, September 7, after a long illness. Robert was diagnosed with colon cancer at Christmas time, and in his characteristically stoic way, asked that his colleagues in the Slavic Department not be told until after the holidays.... Click here to read more.
Katherine M.H. Reischl's (PhD'13) book, Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors, received a fantastic review by Sven Spieker in the Slavic Review. Congratulations, Katherine!
Professor Bożena Shallcross recently published an article titled, “The Muselmann and the Necrotopography of a Ghetto" in The Journal of Holocaust Research (formerly Dapim), Dennis Bock and Michael Becker, eds., vol. 34, 2020: 3, 220-240. Learn more by reading “Behind the Issue," where Alexa Asher (University of Haifa) interviews Bożena Shallcross about the above article for The Journal of Holocaust Research. Congratulations, Bożena!
Undergraduate students working in any relevant discipline are invited to submit their papers for consideration to the UCLA Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies by October 5, 2020. More information can be found on their website.
For Spring Quarter 2020, any course taken toward the major or minor in Russian and East European Studies may be taken Pass/Fail. Students may elect this option up to Friday, June 5. Please visit the College's website for more information.
Congratulations to Professor Eleonora Gilburd, who has been awarded two prestigious prizes for her recent book, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies: the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize and the Marshall Shulman Book Prize. Congratulations, Eleonora!