GNS+ professor and Folklore Program head Christine Garlough’s book Desi Divas was recently featured on NBC New’s article “Books that show Asian Americans have never been silent.” The book focuses on the political uses of folk performance by South Asian American feminists. Read more about this book and many others in the NBC News article …
How Humor Helped Us Survive Communist Reality in Poland A native Pole and former UW-Madison instructor gives a first-person account of life under communism in Poland. Irena Frączek, a longtime instructor and lecturer in the UW–Madison Department of Continuing Studies, was a guest in Krzysztof Borowski’s new Slavic Studies course on politics and comedy in …
Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, has recently published an article in the prestigious Slavic Review titled “Resurrection by Surrogation: Spectral Performance in Putin’s Russia.” Hanukai investigates the growing importance in Russia of practices that ask the living to act as surrogates for the dead, and he focuses specifically on the Immortal Regiment initiative. …
The UW-Madison Slavic Graduate Student Organization presents the 2021 Wisconsin Slavic Conference on April 9 and 10, 2021! Friday, April 9 The Keynote Lecture by Professor Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton University), titled “Fake Tolstoy as a Cultural Problem: The Case of ‘Tolstoy Prophecy of WWI,” will take place at 4:00pm -5:30pm on Friday, April 9 …
Molly Thomasy Blasing (PhD, Slavic Studies, 2014) Slavic Studies PhD alum Molly Thomasy Blasing is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky in Lexington where she teaches courses on Russian language, literature, culture, and cinema. Supervised by Professor (Emeritus) …
Karen Evans-Romaine Recognized by AATSEEL Slavic Studies Professor and Co-Director of UW-Madison’s Russian Flagship Program has received the 2020 AATSEEL award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages was founded in the 1940s and has as its mission to “advance the study and promote the …
Lost in Transition: Can Inclusivity Cross a Language Barrier? By: S.A. Karpukhin “Compared to their American counterparts, Russian inclusive terms are not meant to represent or empower; they are meant, ultimately, to be tokens of mercy on the part of the detached majority… In a glaring absence of conversations where the defined can claim the …
This week GNS+ professor Nâlân Erbil was featured in Turkish language newspaper Önce Vatan Gazetesi. This interview, originally conducted in Turkish, is part of a series of interviews with influential Turkish-Americans for the Turkish speaking audience living in Turkey and the US. Topics ranged from: history of the Turkish program in the department and university; …