In the wake of the Covid pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the study abroad landscape for Russian has been radically altered. Please join us for a roundtable in which a diverse group of highschool, undergraduate, and graduate students will share their experiences of studying Russian abroad after 2020.
Roundtable participants’ comments will be prompted by the following questions:
Where did you study and what was it like to speak Russian there in your host family and around the city?
To what degree did you feel immersed in the local culture? What did you or the program do to help you to learn about the local country and/or meet locals? Did you feel culturally prepared for your study abroad experience? If not, what might have helped?
What aspect of your study abroad experience had the greatest positive impact on you? What growth did you experience? Did you feel your worldview challenged or reshaped in any way?
Has study abroad played a role in building your commitment to study Russian and/or in promoting interest in the country where you have studied? If so, how?
What challenges did you experience during study abroad? How did you manage these challenges?
What do you wish someone had told you before you went? What advice would you give to those preparing students to study Russian abroad in post-Soviet space?
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