On Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, Beach Gray of the University of Pittsburgh gave a multimedia talk to Dickinson students about contemporary Russian hip hop, its political implications, and developments in the genre over the past two decades.  

Russian poet Kirill Medvedev spent nearly a week in Carlisle in October 2011 as part of the X annual Semana Poética (Poetry Week) festival. While on campus he visited a number of classes, met with students and faculty for conversations and meals, and read a selection of his poetry at the Biblio Café.

"I'm grateful to have been given the opportunity to meet Kirill Medvedev and discuss his poetry and political interests with him. Hearing him read his own poetry as he intended for it to be read was especially interesting and made me view his unique writing style in a new light. I even intend on incorporating several points that he made about the way in which he goes about writing his poetry into my own writing." –Ryder Dial ‘15 

Video is available here.

 
Russian 116 student Eli Blumenthal '14 (left) listens as Kirill Medvedev reads 

 Kirsten Brents '14, Chase Philpot '14, Shawn Gessay '13, and Caitlin Moriarty '13 at the Russian Table during the Fall Activities Fair.

 Prof. Dominic Rubin, lecturer in Philosophy and Biblical Hebrew at St. Philaret’s Orthodox Christian Institute and at the Moscow Higher School of Economics, is teaching the annual "Russia Today" course for the Dickinson-in-Moscow program this semester. Prof. Rubin recently published a book called Holy Russia, Sacred Israel: Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2010). His recent book examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism philosophically, theologically, and personally at a time when the Messianic element in Russian consciousness was being stimulated by events ranging from the pogroms of the 1880s, through two Revolutions and World Wars, to exile in Western Europe.

 
Dickinson students with Prof. Rubin.