Russian Studies Workshop

In mid-May, 2021, members of RSW’s Disability Studies Working Group met via Zoom with Dickinson College Russian Department faculty Alyssa DeBlasio and Izolda Savenkova to workshop Unit 2 of DeBlasio and Savenkova’s textbook for advanced Russian language learners, Pro-Dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media (Georgetown University Press, 2023). The textbook, uses an inquiry-based curriculum around contemporary film.  social and philosophical questions to build civic dispositions among students.

Read more about the workshop on the RSW blog.

Participants in the workshop included:

• Jerry Mercury, neurodivergent self-advocate filmmaker from St. Petersburg
• Vera Trubnikova, professional audio descriptor, staff member of NGO Perspektiva, and coordinator of the annual Breaking Down Barriers International Disability Film Festival in Moscow
• Alexandra Kurlenkova, PhD candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University
• Svetlana Borodina, cultural anthropologist and Postdoctoral research scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
• Sarah Phillips, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Byrnes Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University