The Polish Review presents a special issue: “Writing Polish in America”: The Case of Anna Frajlich Professor Emerita of Polish Studies Halina Filipowicz, editor of The Polish Review, alerts everyone to a recent special issue devoted to Anna Frajlich. The March 2022 issue (vol. 67, no. 1), guest-edited by Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), …
News from Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz Recent publications by Professor Emerita Halina Filipowicz include a chapter titled “Is Simply Saying ‘We’ Enough? Feminism, Transgression, and the Challenge of the Transnational Turn” in the volume Wheels of Change: Feminist Transgressions in Polish Culture and Society, ed. Jolanta Wróbel-Best (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2021): She has also …
Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2022 Organized by Assel Almuratova, Jesse Kruschke, and Isabella Palange, this year’s Wisconsin Slavic Conference was held on March 25-26. We thank Prof. Joanna Niżyńska (Indiana University), who gave an inspiring keynote talk titled “Polish-Jewish Memory Fifty Years after March ’68: A Challenge Map,” and Prof. José Vergara (Bryn Mawr), our returning …
Slavic Studies to offer Ukrainian language and culture in Fall 2022 Slavic Studies is delighted to announce that Dr. Oksana Stoychuk, a native of Lviv in Ukraine, will be teaching Ukrainian language and culture in Fall 2022. First-Semester Ukrainian language for three credits will be offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels (GNS 270/370); it …
Humanities Now: Russia’s Invasion of UkraineAndrey Ivanov, Anna Tumarkin, Francine Hirsch, and Kirill Ospovat Hosted by the Center for Humanities For over a month, we’ve witnessed the brutal attack by Russian forces on the people of Ukraine. The war of aggression changes daily, as defiant Ukrainian leaders and citizens defend homes and cities alongside a mass …