By Greer Gerni, PhD student Theatre The 2018-2019 season was the first under the Moscow Art Theatre’s new artistic director Sergey Zhenovach. While much of the theatre’s presence remains unchanged, there are some noticeable differences. Interestingly, most of them point to the past, not the future. I have been researching Moscow’s theatre’s since 2009, paying… Read more »
Report from the field
Update from the field: Life in a Siberian village
Written by Taylor Thomas, PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies with a minor in Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Black chai with fresh mint. Bliny with smetano and jam. A trip up the mountain alongside a procession of cows to gather berries for kompot or pierogi. Three shots of something very… Read more »
Report from the Summer Language Workshop
Written by Alyssa Rodriguez, PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. In my current studies, I seek to understand more of the Russian mentality during the Brezhnev era, and how mentality shifted through a study of the self. I have begun my study by looking through… Read more »
Report from Moscow: On the intersection of theatre, culture, and…soccer
Written by Greer Garni, Graduate Student in Theatre Hello from Moscow where the FIFA world cup is in full swing and the city is decked out to welcome sports fans from all over the world. No surface has been left untouched by the games; TVs have even been installed in metro cars to broadcast the… Read more »