Connor Doak
@docdoak.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Russian, University of Bristol
Languages, literature, travels, gardens
Posts in a personal capacity
Languages, literature, travels, gardens
Posts in a personal capacity
HOW I BECAME A CELT
For St. Patrick's Day, I brought my Irish heritage into the Russian language classroom, assigning our second-year students part of Vladimir Gorban's memoir "Как я стал кельтом" [How I Became a Celt] to translate.
There's a little excerpt below for those who know Russian...
For St. Patrick's Day, I brought my Irish heritage into the Russian language classroom, assigning our second-year students part of Vladimir Gorban's memoir "Как я стал кельтом" [How I Became a Celt] to translate.
There's a little excerpt below for those who know Russian...
March 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
HOW I BECAME A CELT
For St. Patrick's Day, I brought my Irish heritage into the Russian language classroom, assigning our second-year students part of Vladimir Gorban's memoir "Как я стал кельтом" [How I Became a Celt] to translate.
There's a little excerpt below for those who know Russian...
For St. Patrick's Day, I brought my Irish heritage into the Russian language classroom, assigning our second-year students part of Vladimir Gorban's memoir "Как я стал кельтом" [How I Became a Celt] to translate.
There's a little excerpt below for those who know Russian...
Compartment No. 6, dir. Juho Kuosmanen
I introduced this movie in our LGBTQ+ film festival last week. It's a Finnish-Russian co-production made when such things were possible, and a great slow burn set on Russian rails.
It's currently available on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I introduced this movie in our LGBTQ+ film festival last week. It's a Finnish-Russian co-production made when such things were possible, and a great slow burn set on Russian rails.
It's currently available on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Compartment No. 6, dir. Juho Kuosmanen
I introduced this movie in our LGBTQ+ film festival last week. It's a Finnish-Russian co-production made when such things were possible, and a great slow burn set on Russian rails.
It's currently available on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I introduced this movie in our LGBTQ+ film festival last week. It's a Finnish-Russian co-production made when such things were possible, and a great slow burn set on Russian rails.
It's currently available on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Eric Naiman discusses The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature on the CUP blog:
cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/back...
cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/back...
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Eric Naiman discusses The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature on the CUP blog:
cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/back...
cambridgeblog.org/2025/02/back...
Queer Creativity: Bringing Eastern European and Central Asian LGBTQ+ Research to Life
Excellent conference yesterday at Wadham College, Oxford, that brought together artists and scholars come together to discuss queer creativity across the East European, Eurasian, and Slavic regions.
Excellent conference yesterday at Wadham College, Oxford, that brought together artists and scholars come together to discuss queer creativity across the East European, Eurasian, and Slavic regions.
February 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Queer Creativity: Bringing Eastern European and Central Asian LGBTQ+ Research to Life
Excellent conference yesterday at Wadham College, Oxford, that brought together artists and scholars come together to discuss queer creativity across the East European, Eurasian, and Slavic regions.
Excellent conference yesterday at Wadham College, Oxford, that brought together artists and scholars come together to discuss queer creativity across the East European, Eurasian, and Slavic regions.
Today Bristol SML hosted a talk by the UK ambassador to Latvia, Paul Brummell. He discussed the strong cooperation between the UK and Latvia, Latvian history, and the challenges facing the country today. Many of our students go to Latvia on Year Abroad; they valued the opportunity to talk with him.
February 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today Bristol SML hosted a talk by the UK ambassador to Latvia, Paul Brummell. He discussed the strong cooperation between the UK and Latvia, Latvian history, and the challenges facing the country today. Many of our students go to Latvia on Year Abroad; they valued the opportunity to talk with him.
Reposted by Connor Doak
Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities
The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
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We have a new Study Group, 'Music of Eastern Europe and Eurasia'! They will be holding their inaugural conference ‘Music on the Move in Communist Europe’ in the Department of Music, University of Bristol, 28-29 May 2025 rmameee.wordpress.com/music-on-the...
Music on the Move in Communist Europe
27-28 May 2025, Victoria Rooms, Department of Music, University of Bristol Convenors: Pauline Fairclough and Mariia Romanets Invited speakers including: Leah Batstone (University of Vienna) Gabriel…
rmameee.wordpress.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We have a new Study Group, 'Music of Eastern Europe and Eurasia'! They will be holding their inaugural conference ‘Music on the Move in Communist Europe’ in the Department of Music, University of Bristol, 28-29 May 2025 rmameee.wordpress.com/music-on-the...
Reposted by Connor Doak
In our latest post, you can learn more about the development of LGBT studies and the normalisation of queerness in Estonia. Check out Rasa Kamarauskaitė's (@balticbasees.bsky.social) interview with Estonian sexualities scholar Rebeka Põldsam www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...
Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Estonia – a conversation with Rebeka Põldsam
As part of the series that discusses ‘peripheries’ in the Baltic states, Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK) of the BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States interviewed Estonian sexuality scholar Rebeka Põldsam (R...
www.peripheralhistories.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In our latest post, you can learn more about the development of LGBT studies and the normalisation of queerness in Estonia. Check out Rasa Kamarauskaitė's (@balticbasees.bsky.social) interview with Estonian sexualities scholar Rebeka Põldsam www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...
Our Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School will take place 7-11 July 2025! Check it out -- this annual event gets great reviews every year. Russian-English is taught this year by the wonderful @annagunin.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...
www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...
Bristol Translates | School of Modern Languages | University of Bristol
Summer School – Bristol Translates
www.bristol.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School will take place 7-11 July 2025! Check it out -- this annual event gets great reviews every year. Russian-English is taught this year by the wonderful @annagunin.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...
www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat...
My colleague Irina Roldugina has written a blog piece, 'Trans Visibility in the Late Soviet Union', based on her current research uncovering the surprising history of trans people in the perestroika-era USSR
artsmatter.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/
artsmatter.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/
February 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My colleague Irina Roldugina has written a blog piece, 'Trans Visibility in the Late Soviet Union', based on her current research uncovering the surprising history of trans people in the perestroika-era USSR
artsmatter.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/
artsmatter.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/01/
My review of Global Russian Cultures, ed. Kevin M.F. Platt, is in this month's Slavic Review:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 3, 2023 at 9:24 AM
My review of Global Russian Cultures, ed. Kevin M.F. Platt, is in this month's Slavic Review:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
PhD Scholarships at Bristol -- September 2024 entry
Bristol is offering fully-funded scholarships for PhDs in the Arts & Humanities, September 2024 entry:
shorturl.at/aePT3
Anyone interested in doing a PhD based in Russian or Czech studies should check out our department:
bristol.ac.uk/russian/
Bristol is offering fully-funded scholarships for PhDs in the Arts & Humanities, September 2024 entry:
shorturl.at/aePT3
Anyone interested in doing a PhD based in Russian or Czech studies should check out our department:
bristol.ac.uk/russian/
October 8, 2023 at 12:38 PM
PhD Scholarships at Bristol -- September 2024 entry
Bristol is offering fully-funded scholarships for PhDs in the Arts & Humanities, September 2024 entry:
shorturl.at/aePT3
Anyone interested in doing a PhD based in Russian or Czech studies should check out our department:
bristol.ac.uk/russian/
Bristol is offering fully-funded scholarships for PhDs in the Arts & Humanities, September 2024 entry:
shorturl.at/aePT3
Anyone interested in doing a PhD based in Russian or Czech studies should check out our department:
bristol.ac.uk/russian/
Poet Iryna Shuvalova and her translator Uilleam Blacker will be giving a reading in Swedenborg House, London on 13 October.
I heard Iryna reading via Zoom a couple of weeks ago at an event in New York -- her poetry is powerful yet often intimate and playful.
ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/
I heard Iryna reading via Zoom a couple of weeks ago at an event in New York -- her poetry is powerful yet often intimate and playful.
ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/
October 3, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Poet Iryna Shuvalova and her translator Uilleam Blacker will be giving a reading in Swedenborg House, London on 13 October.
I heard Iryna reading via Zoom a couple of weeks ago at an event in New York -- her poetry is powerful yet often intimate and playful.
ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/
I heard Iryna reading via Zoom a couple of weeks ago at an event in New York -- her poetry is powerful yet often intimate and playful.
ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/
Thought-provoking intervention by Ilya Kukulin (Translated by Ainsley Morse and Maria Vassileva) on the fraught question of Russian culture and its relationship to politics
therussianreader.com/2023/09/22/2...
therussianreader.com/2023/09/22/2...
Ilya Kukulin: Dostoyevsky, Kundera, and the Culpability of Russian Culture
Does Russian culture contain an alternative to the "expansionist universalism" (as embodied in landmark works by Tyutchev, Dostoyevsky, and Blok, among others) that has seemed to work hand in glove wi...
therussianreader.com
September 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Thought-provoking intervention by Ilya Kukulin (Translated by Ainsley Morse and Maria Vassileva) on the fraught question of Russian culture and its relationship to politics
therussianreader.com/2023/09/22/2...
therussianreader.com/2023/09/22/2...
The special issue of /AvtobiografiЯ/ on 'Queer Life Writing in Russia and Beyond' has now been published and is available open access:
tinyurl.com/avtobiografija
tinyurl.com/avtobiografija
September 22, 2023 at 1:58 PM
The special issue of /AvtobiografiЯ/ on 'Queer Life Writing in Russia and Beyond' has now been published and is available open access:
tinyurl.com/avtobiografija
tinyurl.com/avtobiografija