In the last few years, global crises have disrupted the lives of millions of people, including a pandemic, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and the climate crisis. This month, the UW–Madison Polish Program is hosting a meeting with Julia Fiedorczuk, a contemporary Polish poet and author whose work deals with these issues. Please join us for …
This volume, co-edited by David S. Danaher in GNS+ and Kieran Williams from Drake University, has been published by Prague-based Karolinum Press with North American distribution through University of Chicago Press starting this May. The volume seeks to understand how certain words in Havel’s thought serve as intellectual touchstones around which his larger message takes …
Slavic Studies congratulates Marsel Khamitov, who recently defended his dissertation proposal, which is titled “Reimagining Friendship of Peoples: Visions of Multiethnic Polities in Late Soviet Literature.” We interviewed Mr. Khamitov to find out more about the research topic. What will your dissertation be about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation will …
Slavic Studies congratulates Victoria Buyanovskaya, who recently defended her dissertation proposal, which is titled “Re-Writing Revolution: Anarchism, Resistance, and Utopia in Kronstadt, Ukraine, and Siberia after 1917.” We interviewed Ms. Buyanovskaya to find out more about the research topic. What will your dissertation be about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation …
PSI is an intensive pre-college Russian language and culture experience for outstanding high-school students with two distinct but related programs: PSI Madison and PSI Abroad. The former is a five-week residential program on UW-Madison’s campus while the latter offers students a six-week Russian immersion experience in Daugavpils, Latvia. PSI Madison aims to: build and improve …
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 19 and December 3 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All screenings are FREE and OPEN to the public. Join us to again celebrate Poland’s vibrant and universally recognized cinematic tradition. …
In a prelude to the 2023 Madison Polish Film Festival, Agnieszka Holland’s newest—and perhaps most controversial yet—feature film Green Border (Pol. Zielona granica, 2023) is coming to Madison. A fictionalized version of real-life events, the film explores the drama of African and Middle Eastern refugees stuck at the Polish-Belarussian border. Green Border will screen on Sunday, November 5, in …
Ten years after it first cut through Lake Mendota, a traditional birchbark canoe returned to the water, paddled by its maker, Wayne Valliere. On Oct. 4, 2023, Thomas DuBois, professor in the Department of German, Nordi, and Slavic+, Valliere, Tim Frandy, assistant professor of Nordic studies at the University of British Columbia, and Marcus Cederström, …
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the dramatists and novelist Jon Fosse, who write sin the version of Norwegian known as Nynorsk. GNS+ Professor Dean Krouk, a specialist in Norwegian literature, recommends Fosse’s “Trilogy” as a good place to start exploring this mesmerizing author.
Sara Karpukhin’s article “Looking for the Human in the Humanities: Vladimir Nabokov’s Theory of Literary Evolution” was published in the Slavic and East European Journal’s Spring 2023 issue. We interviewed Dr. Karpukhin to find out more about her research. What aspects of Nabokov’s literary evolution do you focus on in this article- and why these? …