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 …
The Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal, just published, features a symposium titled “Rethinking Pedagogical Practices at the Nexus of Pandemic and War: Technology, Access, Equity, Inclusion, and Representation in Our Field.” The symposium was coordinated by UW-Madison Professor Karen Evans-Romaine and Slavic Studies PhD alum Shannon Donnally Quinn (Michigan State …
At the February 2024 national meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), which took place in Las Vegas, UW-Madison Professor Karen Evans-Romaine, who is the current president of the organization, convened a roundtable titled “Representation in Slavic Studies: What are teaching? Why? To whom?,” and a number of …
Congratulations to Aselle Almuratova, a current PhD student in our Slavic Studies program, who was recently elected to serve on the board of the American Council of Teachers of Russian as its graduate student representative. Also elected to serve on the board is José Vergara, a 2016 PhD alum of our graduate program who now …
Slavic Studies congratulates Assistant Professor Łukasz Wodzyński on winning the award for Best Article published in the Slavic and East European Journal for 2023. The article is titled “In Search of Wild Beaches: Adventure in Michał Witkowski’s Lovetown,” and we previously profiled it here. Congratulations, Łukasz!
Slavic Studies extends congratulations to Marsel Khamitov on winning the Letters & Science Early Excellence in Teaching Award. Mr. Khamitov was selected “from among a field of outstanding nominees” and the award “speaks to [his] impressive contribution to the educational mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.”