Stories about "German & Russian Studies"
German and Russian Studies, Fall 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:57 pm
The Department of German and Russian Studies looks forward to welcoming back…
U.S. Sen. George Mitchell among speakers for weeklong ‘Unbounded Learning’
Friday, October 7, 2011 10:56 am
George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator delivers the keynote address during a weeklong celebration of international and interdisciplinary education at Bates
Campus Construction Update: June 7, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011 2:14 pm
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the final days of the renovation of Hedge and Roger Williams halls. On Monday, June 27, faculty in philosophy, religious studies and environmental studies will receive key-card access to the renovated Hedge Hall and be able to start settling into their spiffy new offices. Four weeks later, July 25 is moving day for staff of the Language Resource Center and Off-Campus Study office and the faculty of the foreign-language programs that will occupy Roger Williams Hall.
Sights, sounds and sense of Russian poetry at Mount David Summit
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 11:25 am
The two students of Russian began their Mount David Summit panel presentation…
$150,000 grant from Alden Trust supports Hedge-Bill renovations
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 2:05 pm
As Bates continues to transform two 19th-century residence halls into state-of-the-art academic buildings, the college has received a $150,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust to support the renovation project.
Bates Matters: Traditions and Facilities
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
How a tradition of learning inside, outside, and around the classroom influences…
Vecsey reads Holocaust memoir sequel by Isaacson '65
Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:23 am
Last winter, Judith Isaacson '65, LL.D. '94 got to hear her own words during a reading at the Lewiston Public Library by Katalin Vecsey, who read selections from Isaacson's Seed of Sarah, a memoir published in 1990 that recounted her Holocaust experiences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch Lichtenau concentration camps.
Wake Up Call
Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:06 pm
A chain of such experiential moments — the solo fast being just one of the more salient examples — stretched from one end of Short Term to the other. As far as I knew, nothing quite like "Wake Up!" had ever been tried at Bates before. It was a hybrid that wedded rigorous academic inquiry with direct, personal, unmediated experiential learning.
Crisis in the Caucasus: Cold War 2.0?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:46 pm
The German-Russian Studies Department invites you to this year's first "Samovar Series for Cultural Inquiry." The topic will be recent events in the Caucasus and the impact those events are having and might have for the international community.
Chechen surgeon and human rights activist to speak
Saturday, December 8, 2007 11:25 am
Dr. Khassan Baiev, a Chechen physician, author and human rights activist, will speak at Bates College on International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.