WashU Students Present Russian & Eurasian Research at Central Slavic Conference

Five WashU students (all Class of 2025) gave presentations at the Central Slavic Conference held at St. Louis University on November 1, 2024. Leila El-Badry (major in Economics, minors in Russian Language & Literature and Finance) presented on "Onward to the Apocalypse: The Railway's Role in Shaping Dostoevsky's The Idiot." Nikita Bobrusev (major in Biology: Neuroscience, minor in Russian Language & Literature) presented "A Pilgrimage from Life to Death." Mason Letteau Stallings (Class of 2025, major in Comparative Literature & Thought, minors in French and Russian Language & Literature) presented on "Solzhenitsyn on Russia & the West: An Heir to the Slavophiles and the Counter-Enlightenment." Anna Gorman (double major in Anthropology and Global Studies: Development, minor in Russian Language & Literature) presented on "Language Politics in Central Asian States." Eva Yakushev (double major in Film & Media Studies and Global Studies: Eurasian Studies, minor in Russian Language & Literature) presented on "Hope and Disillusionment: Black Writers in the Soviet Union."