What lessons might be drawn—for us in the here and now—from studying the cultural-historical space of pre-1989 (post-)totalitarian East Central Euope? How might dissidentism as practiced in that time and place help us better understand dissent as a general modern phenomenon? Please join us for a one-day symposium that explores these questions. The symposium takes …
The Wisconsin Slavic Conference, an annual event planned and implemented by PhD students in Slavic, took place on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13. The keynote speaker was Rossen Djagalov (New York University), who presented on “Multinational Soviet Literature: A World-Literature History.” Our returning program alum for this year’s event was Thomas Tabatowski, who …
The Polish Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Lapinski, Zawacki, and Gąsiorowska awards for the academic year 2023-2024. Among the awardees are undergraduate and graduate students who will receive financial support for their continued study of the Polish language, literature, and culture at UW–Madison and beyond. Congratulations! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …
One of the latest episodes of the BBC program In Our Time features Thomas Dubois on a panel of experts talking about the Kalevala. Listen to the episode here. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part …
Meetings with Polish poetry continue this month as the UW–Madison Polish Program is hosting Jerzy Jarniewicz (University of Łódź), a Polish poet, translator, and literary critic whose first poetic volume in English was published in 2023. The event will also feature Jarniewicz’s translator into English, scholar, essayist, and an award-winning poet Piotr Florczyk (University of …