Word: slavic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could go weeks without seeing colleagues,” and indeed, this seems to be the case in various other departments as well. Thomas describes a similar situation, when the Classics department was divided about four years ago, between half a floor in Boylston (shared with Slavic Studies) and space in Widener and Pusey where senior faculty resided. This created a “virtual versus actual community,” according to Thomas, where senior faculty often came to Boylston only to check their mail. In a continuing effort to work against that trend, the Classics department has supported...
...fact, many undergraduates who study languages have had the opportunity to attend some of the most famous parties in professor-student party history. The Slavic Languages and Literatures Department is well known for its annual winter bash...
...wartime Hungary, Andris--age eight and passing as a gentile under the Slavic name Andris Malesevics--learned never to urinate in front of other children, lest his circumcised penis give him away. Sensible policy. In Budapest's City Park one day in 1943, a little girl turned to him and said, "Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all the Jews will be thrown into the Danube." The child adumbrated Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who months later took charge of the deportation and extermination of Hungarian Jews...
...will also take place during the second weekend of the run. The Nov. 15 show is a benefit performance held in conjunction with Project Health. And, after the Nov. 17 matinee, a symposium is scheduled to discuss the show and its history. A panel drawn from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the ART are expected. The producers aim to attract graduate students and professors with the symposium event, and hope the high caliber panel will appeal to those interested in Russian history and literature...
...semester due to his illness. This year, Nozick is opting for more nontraditional classes, co-teaching “Philosophy and History: The Russian Revolution” with Assistant Professor of History Eric Lohr and “Philosophy and Literature: Dostoevsky” with Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures William Mills Todd III. Nozick begins his acknowledgments in Invariances by thanking three of his doctors. He also alludes to a new manner of thinking, stating that this book is supposed to pose new questions for further thought, not to conclusively prove an argument. This attitude...