Current News

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov at the Long Room Hub, 23rd November.  Following brief welcoming speeches from the Head of School Sarah Smyth, and John Murray from the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Mr Mladenov held a question-and-answer session with Bulgarian students studying at Trinity. The meeting was also attended by the Bulgarian Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Emil Yalnazov, and the Bulgarian Lector at the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Dr Rossen Stoichkov.

EUROPEAN STUDIES LECTURE SERIES:

War and Memory in Europe after World War II
Dr Per A. Rudling (University of Greifswald): War and Memory: National(ist) Interpretations of World War II in Ukraine
Dr Edward Arnold (Trinity College Dublin): Myth, Memory and Collective Amnesia in in Post-war France
European Union House, 18 Dawson St, Dublin 2
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 6:00 PM

NEW Departmental blog: The Slavonical Chronicle
www.slavonical.blogspot.com

IDENTITY:WORKSHOP series and the European Studies lecture series

"Nineteen Fifty Six" Resistance and Memory in the Eastern Bloc

“1956-es” – Resistance and Memories in Eastern Europe

This one-day workshop aims to provide a forum for a comparative assessment of resistance movements in the Eastern bloc in 1956. Focusing mostly on the Polish and Hungarian events, the workshop will address the significance of popular discontent (a nascent civil society?) in challenging the authority of the Party and the State, and in gradually eroding the communist system. The workshop is organized on the 55th anniversary of the events of 1956 and thus the issue of the legacy of 1956 will also be addressed. The multiplication of diverse historical and political interpretations, the fragmentation of the ‘idea of ’56’, and the emergence of 1956-es in the collective consciousness of the respective societies will be in the limelight of discussions at the workshop.

2011 - 13-15
April International Conference:Relocating Cultures

IARCEES Conference April 2011(abstract)

Registration Form

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Johnny O’Reilly is the latest Irish director to make it big overseas, but this time it’s not LA – it’s a Russian thriller set in the Crimea

The Festival of Russian Culture Dublin will be held from 1 - 7 March. Events include exhibitions, readings, film screenings and a Pancake Day family celebration in Temple Bar on Sunday March 6th. The full programme can be found here:
http://dublinrussianfestival.com/

New: Bulgarian Courses

Commencing from 2009/2010, the Department is delighted to add Bulgarian to its established evening courses. Please click here for course description and here for all extra-mural courses; including Czech, Polish and Russian. For enquiries and enrolments, please contact the Departmental Secretary.

New Scholar - Nadja Turunen The Department would like to congratulate Nadja Turunen (SF Business Studies and Russian) on her achievement of becoming a Scholar of Trinity College Dublin and wishes her every success in the future.

 

23/4/2009 Inauguration of Russian Society

The 2008/9 academic year saw the birth of the TCD Russian society (registered 7th April, inaugurated 23rd April 2009). The society aims to promote Russian culture amongst students of Trinity College, by organising public lectures, film and game evenings as well as literature classes and by networking with other Russian societies.

27/2/09 Chekhov evening in the Atrium
Students of the department under Natasha Kulachkovskaya’s directorship performed “The Wedding” by Anton Chekhov on 27th March 2009 in front of a captivated audience.

http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/news-events/Dept_Sem_2010-11.pdf

Pub Nights
Every second Wednesday during teaching term, post-8.30, Kennedy’s pub, Lincoln gate. Check the Russian society pages for the next date, or e-mail Conny Opitz to be put on the mailing list.

Polish Film Nights
Every second Friday during teaching term, 6pm start, Room 5052. Organiser: Ewa Grzegorek
(Schedule)