Agnieszka Holland’s Controversial Polish-Belarussian Border Drama Comes to Madison

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 …

Students’ Mapping Projects Explore Diverse Heritage of Poland, Central Europe

From Berlin to Białystok, from Vienna to Wolin—the map of Central Europe is full of places where multiple cultures, languages, religions, and traditions intersect. To document and promote this diversity, students in a new Slavic …

Announcing 2022/2023 Lapinski Scholarship Winners: Victoria Chowaniak and Julia Paciorek

Each year, the UW–Madison Polish Studies Program announces the recipients of the Lapinski scholarship, received as a generous endowment from the will of Mrs. Leona Lapinski Leute. In the academic year 2022/2023, the Lapinski awards went …