University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: September 2023

Victoria Buyanovskaya Publishes Article in “The Polish Review”

Current Slavic PhD student Victoria Buyanovskaya’s article on Bruno Schulz, titled “Turning Back Time to Keep Writing: Melancholic Memory and the Making of the Modern(ist) Self in Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), has been published in the most recent edition of the academic journal The Polish Review. The article reads …

Russian Flagship Student Receives Prestigious Boren Scholarship

UW-Madison senior Madeline Rutherford is currently participating in the Russian Overseas Flagship Capstone Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A double major in Astrophysics and International Studies as well as a participant in the Russian Flagship Program, Rutherford’s year in Kazakhstan is partly funded by her receipt of a prestigious Boren Scholarship. David L. Boren Scholarships are …

Language, Culture, and Adventure: A UW–Madison Student’s Summer in Wrocław, Poland

After one year of Polish classes at UW–Madison (Slavic 111 & Slavic 112), Meghan Hall decided to fulfill her dream of visiting Poland by enrolling in the 2023 NAWA Summer Program in Polish language and culture. Once in Wrocław, Poland’s third-largest city, she dived into the local culture and food scenes while earning a certificate of completion …