Russian

Who did it?

Become a detective for a night! Solve riddles, puzzles and see who will be the first one to solve the case. The German and Russian department will host a murder mystery night. Participants will have the chance to become a detective for a night. To solve the murder, the detectives will have to work in groups and report to their commanding officer - find the murderer by solving riddles and puzzles! Join us for a puzzling night filled with crime and mystery! ❖  Wednesday, March 2nd @6:30 | Goodrich Hall, Room 207 Continue reading »

Russian Potluck Dinner

Russian PotLuck, 2021

A popular annual event returns! It's a potluck dinner so contact your Russian professor or Masha, the Russian TA, for recipe ideas and info about rides to the supermarket. ✣ Wed. Nov 3, 6pm – 8:30pm | Dodd Lounge Continue reading »

Williams Students are Card Sharks

Casino Night, 2021

Thank you everyone who joined our Casino Night on 10/26 and made our first joint event for the semester so memorable! The students tried out various card games such as Durak, Schafkopf or Schnapsen and - to our surprise - picked them up rather quickly! With pizza as well as traditional Palatschinken and Сырники on the side, a lot of fun and great times were had. We look forward to see more students join us in future events! Continue reading »

Casino Night

Card Games

The German and Russian Department invites you to a showcase of various traditional card games from the Russian and German cultural sphere. Come join us on October 26 at 7:00 PM in Goodrich 207 for a night of food, drinks and fun! Continue reading »

Teaching English in Prague and Vladimir, Russia

Jennifer Helinek '15, will be talking about her experience teaching English as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Prague, and then at The American Home, in Vladimir, Russia. ✣ Friday, December 3⋅11:00am – 12:00pm | Mabie Room 307, Sawyer Library This talk is for the Williams Community only. Continue reading »

Masculinity, Misogyny, and U.S. Elections in the Trump Era

In their lecture, Professors Robert Boatright and Valerie Sperling (Clark University) will explore how Donald Trump’s misogyny in the 2016 presidential race changed how Congressional campaigns were waged in 2016 and 2018, and how the Trump factor may affect the 2020 elections. ❖ Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, at 4 pm | Schapiro 129 Continue reading »

Due North: Living, Researching, Writing the Russian North Pacific in an Era of Climate Crisis

The Kamchatka Peninsula, along the Western side of the Bering Strait, is home to an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet for the past two centuries, the area became the site of an experiment where the modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism and communism, were and continue to be subject to the pressures of Arctic scarcity and Indigenous culture. Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Brown University and Julia Phillips, writer and author of the novel Disappearing Earth (Alfred A. Knopf 2019) will join Yana Skorobogatov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Williams College, for a conversation about the place of the Russian North Pacific in the modern world. ❖ Thu, October 3rd, 2019, 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm | The Williams Bookstore Continue reading »

Anti-Muslim Racism in Europe

Farid Hafez

Farid Hafez will give a talk on race and racism in Europe. He connects his expertise on contemporary Islamophobia with larger questions of colonialism, anti-Semitism and the imagination of a post-racial post-Holocaust era in Europe following the end of World War II. Hafez will especially focus on relevant issues of the rising far-right in today's Europe. ❖ April 18, 6 – 7PM | Griffin 3 Continue reading »