Not in Russia: Multilayered Identities and Cultural Practices in Russian-speaking New York

Not in Russia: Multilayered Identities and Cultural Practices in Russian-speaking New York student research from the course “Global Russian / Local Diasporas” at Connecticut College

Presentations will address:

• Russian language use and its evolution in emigration (Pavel Khorkin)
• Cultural practices among Russian-speaking migrants (Alia Solovyeva)
• Assimilation and personality traits: four case studies (Sebastian Parilov)
• Russian-Jewish identity and its expression (Andrew Kupovich)
• Media consumption and communication across cultures (Anthony Smith)

Faculty advisors: Andrea Lanoux, Professor of Slavic Studies, Connecticut College

Olga Bukhina, Literary Translator and Children’s Literature Specialist

All presentations will be given in English

Attendance is free and open to the public. But we ask everyone who wants to register, because our space is very cozy, but small, and therefore the number of places is limited.

The event is supported by Connecticut College

The aim of this series to go beyond the academy by bringing new research by young scholars, including sociologists, historians, cultural scholars, and anthropologists, to a general audience; by exploring social and cultural phenomena in a new light; and by facilitating dialogue with participants from a broad range of cultural backgrounds.