Questions of family, happiness, and self-fulfillment dominated the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival as another selection of new Polish films reached the UW campus. As usual, the event attracted a significant crowd from the Polish-American, student, and the larger Madison communities to experience how Polish filmmakers—two female and two male directors—use cinema …
Slavic Studies congratulates 2015 and 2016 PhD alums Sara Karpukhin (UW-Madison) and José Vergara (Bryn Mawr) on the open-access (free!) publication of their co-edited volume Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century (Amherst College Press, 2022). The volume features contributions by 11 teachers of Nabokov who describe how and why they teach a notoriously difficult—if …
Slavic Studies congratulates PhD alums Colleen Lucey (2016) and José Vergara (2016) on their books being shortlisted for the 2022 AATSEEL Prize for Best First Book in the field of Slavic and East European Studies. Dr. Lucey’s book, published by Cornell University Press in 2021, is titled Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia, …
Slavic Studies is delighted to share a video interview with Dr. Oksana Stoychuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies. The video was produced by Sydney Langille, a current student in Dr. Stoychuk’s course “Ukrainian Culture & Society,” working with Maya Elvira Salleh, a classmate in a course on media production. In the short video, Dr. Stoychuk discusses …
A panel organized by Anna Tumarkin and devoted to the topic of providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians displaced by the war who have crossed the border into Poland was held on the afternoon of November 1, 2022. Two panelists, who both spent part of their summer volunteering at the Center for Humanitarian Aid in Przemyśl, …
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 13 and 20 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All screenings are FREE and OPEN to the public. Join us to celebrate Poland’s vibrant and universally recognized cinematic tradition! The …
From Berlin to Białystok, from Vienna to Wolin—the map of Central Europe is full of places where multiple cultures, languages, religions, and traditions intersect. To document and promote this diversity, students in a new Slavic course completed a collaborative digital mapping project titled “Mapping Multiculturalism in Central Europe.” The project is now available for viewing …
Despite (or perhaps because of?) the gloomy weather, we had a spectacularly spooky and intellectually stimulating supernatural UW tour last Wednesday evening, led by Madison Ghost Walks. Over 30 students showed up to prowl the campus hearing memorates, legends, FOAF tales, rumors, and other occult narratives, followed by a very illuminating presentation and Q&A by …
Melissa Miller received her PhD from Slavic Studies (with a minor in Second Language Acquisition) in 2016. Her dissertation was titled Anton Chekhov and the Modernization of Sexuality in Late Imperial Russia. She taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Macalester College, and the University of Notre Dame before beginning a tenure-track Assistant Professor position this fall …
Each year, the UW–Madison Polish Studies Program announces the recipients of the Lapinski scholarship, received as a generous endowment from the will of Mrs. Leona Lapinski Leute. In the academic year 2022/2023, the Lapinski awards went to Victoria Chowaniak from Elmwood Park, Illinois, and Julia Paciorek, from Houston, Texas. Congratulations, Victoria and Julia! Gratulacje! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …