Alla Smyslova

Senior Lecturer, Slavic Languages; Director, Russian Practicum

Columbia University

708 Hamilton

212-854-8155

as2157@columbia.edu

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Super-NOS Literary Prize Debate

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for Super-NOS, an evening of exciting literary debate dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian literary prize NOS (Новая словесность/New Prose). This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

A Reading by Lev Rubinstein

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for a reading by Lev Rubinstein, postmodernist Russian poet, prose-writer, and performer. The event will be preceded by a reception at 6:00pm and a Q&A session after the reading. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. This a Russian-language event with no English translation. Registration is required.

Political Protest and Culture in Today's Russia

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a lecture by journalist, literary critic, curator, and political activist Anna Narinskaya. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

What Literature Is Not Talking About: Present-day Russian Society, Social Life, and Cultural Memory

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 12:00pm

Please join us for a lecture by Irina Prokhorova, cultural historian, literary critic, editor and political activist. This event is part of the Super-NOS Russian Literary Festival, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Barnard Slavic Department, Columbia Slavic Department, and the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. Registration is required.

A Reading by 2019 NOS Prize Winner Alexander Stessin

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 7:00pm

Please join us for a reading by author Alexander Stessin, winner of the 2019 NOS Prize for his book The New York Rounds (Нью-йоркский обход).

Daniel Petrick (MARS-REERS '20): "Return to Kosovo: The Serbs Who Re-Embraced Their Hometown"

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Daniel Petrick (MARS '20) writes for Balkaninsight.com about Serbs who have returned to live in Prizren, Kosovo after fleeing at the end of the war in 1999.

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