Workshop on 'Using Your Lang./Lit. Degree in the Business World

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A visiting scholar professor Katherine Hill, a former professor of Russian at Princeton and Stanford, will give a workshop from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in J.B. Hunt 207. The workshop titled "Using Your Lang./Lit. Degree in the Business World" will focus on how students can use their language and literature skills in the business world, providing guidance on how to leverage their knowledge to succeed in a global marketplace.

Lunch will be served.

Hill will also give a lecture from 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in Kimpel Hall 102. Titled "The Problem of Real Time in Realtime: Looking at Images of the Ukrainian War," the lecture explores ways of reading contemporary photographs of the war in Ukraine with particular focus on the complex relationships between nationalism, media and technology in the former Soviet Union.  

In 2017, Hill published the book  Photographic Memory: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors (Cornell University Press). She is also a creator of the Digital Humanities project on "Playing Soviet" on Soviet children's books. Hill taught Russian literature at Princeton and Stanford. 

Visit the Russian Eurasian Student Organization for more information about the group. Interested in reading Russian literature? Learn more about the Russian Studies Minor.