Year: 2023

[This article has been republished from the original May 24, 2023 publication date.] Assistant professor Maksim Hanukai’s Tragic Encounters is available now! “Lucidly written and energetically argued, Tragic Encounters attends to significant theoretical questions, compellingly reconstructs important historical moments in Alexander Pushkin’s poetic career, and, most importantly, carefully and brilliantly reinterprets four of Pushkin’s canonical …

On Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, Slavic Studies held its annual graduate-student led Wisconsin Slavic Conference. The winner of the J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Paper presented at this year’s conference was Marsel Khamitov for his “Performing/Preserving the Empire: Nationalism and Translation in Semyon Lipkin’s Dekada.” Honorable mention was given to …

Dr. Sara Karpukhin is teaching “Queer Russians” for the first time this semester. We interviewed her to find out more about the course.   What motivated you to offer this course?  Great question. Big question! I’ll try to answer it briefly. On the one hand, I was always interested in how people thought and spoke …

Slavic’s annual graduate-student run conference—with the theme of “On the Edge: Cultural Geographies of Resistance”—will take place this Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address titled “Memory on the Move: Narrating Refugee Experiences during the War” at 4pm on Friday in 104 Van Hise Hall, …

Aselle Almuratova, current PhD student in Slavic Studies, has won an award for graduate-student teaching sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). The ACTR Award for Excellence in Teaching Russian at the Post-Secondary Level for Graduate Student Instructors offers national recognition to graduate students who demonstrate excellence in teaching the Russian language, as well …

Russian Studies congratulates 2004 alum Kari Anderson on this Letters & Science profile , which is a must read. Kari was a speaker on a November 2022 panel organized by Anna Tumarkin about making a difference at the Polish-Ukraine border, and the L&S story picks up where the November panel left off. The story also …