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The
Center is designed to strengthen the study and teaching of
Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at Oberlin,
by expanding summer and post graduation internship, community
service, study abroad, and employment opportunities for students;
fostering the development of new curricula; and offering a
broad range of cultural activities focusing on the region.
The Center will provide the administrative support and resources
essential to develop innovative programming for Oberlin students
and graduates, while assuring participant safety and program
quality within the rapidly changing conditions of Russia,
Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
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Russian Department Web Page
Click here to find out more about the Russian Department at Oberlin College.
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The
Moscow Diary
Watch for updates from Greg Walters, '03, as he
explores the field of international journalism. OCREECAS is
sponsoring Greg's internship with the Moscow Times this fall,
and he will be sending us updates on his progress
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Siberian
Summer
Brianna Tindall writes about
her summer in Siberia. The Oberlin College senior spent two
months in the region around Lake Baikal, interning for the Federation
of Mountaineering and Ecotourism. Read about camping and building trails in the wilds of Russia!
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Marian Schwartz: Translator
April 16th, 4:30-6:00
Rice Faculty Lounge
Marian Schwartz has been translating Russian literature for over thirty years, not only fiction but philosophy,
criticism, fine art, and history. She has published numerous stories in Two Lines, Grand Street, The Literary Review,
North American Review, and Yale Review, among other magazines, as well as in anthologies, and over two dozen book-length
translations, along with twenty issues of Russian Studies in Literature. Schwartz's latest publication is her translation
of Ruben Gallego's White on Black, winner of the 2004 Russian Booker Prize, which Harcourt published in hardcover in
2006 and reissued in paperback in 2007. Schwartz's other recent publications include new translations of Mikhail
Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (Modern Library) and Yuri Olesha's Envy (New York Review Books). Currently, Schwartz
is producing new translations of Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, White Guard (Yale University Press). She will speak
on problems in translation of contemporary fiction, focusing on her most recent translation (from Russian) of Gallego's
White on Black which was just awareded the Texas Institute of Letter's translation prize.
Other events
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Read about the musical group Talisman's visit to Oberlin, expanding OCREECAS internships, and more!
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