Alaina Lemon, associate professor of anthropology, has traveled to Moscow with a dozen U-M students for a two-week study tour of Russia’s capital city.
The group was to fly to Moscow May 9.
Organized by the Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) in collaboration with the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), this new U-M study abroad program will introduce students to the culture and history of Russia. The for-credit program includes lectures by RSUH faculty on topics ranging from art, history, literature, music, and religion to education, politics, and Russian-American relations.
Guided tours to some of Moscow’s most famous sites (such as the Kremlin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Novodevichy Monastery and Gorky Park) will complement this interdisciplinary set of lectures. Participants also will have dinner with Russian families; roundtable discussions with Russian students, journalists and politicians; as well as opportunities to attend evening performances.
Lemon is a linguistic and socio-cultural anthropologist who specializes on Russia. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Moscow, including work on Romani and Russian theater/performance and the Moscow Metro. In Spring 2004 and 2006, Lemon led CREES study tours in St. Petersburg, Russia.
For more information about CREES and its academic and other programs, go to www.ii.umich.edu/crees.
