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 …
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 …
After one year of Polish classes at UW–Madison (Slavic 111 & Slavic 112), Meghan Hall decided to fulfill her dream of visiting Poland by enrolling in the 2023 NAWA Summer Program in Polish language and culture. Once in Wrocław, Poland’s third-largest city, she dived into the local culture and food scenes while earning a certificate of completion …
In the Fall 2022 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal (66:3), Assistant Professor Łukasz Wodzyński published an analysis of Lovetown (Lubiewo in the original Polish), the breakthrough novel of the contemporary queer Polish author Michał Witkowski. We interviewed Professor Wodzyński to find out more about his article. What drew you to analyze …
Questions of family, happiness, and self-fulfillment dominated the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival as another selection of new Polish films reached the UW campus. As usual, the event attracted a significant crowd from the Polish-American, student, and the larger Madison communities to experience how Polish filmmakers—two female and two male directors—use cinema …
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 13 and 20 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 celebrate Poland’s vibrant and universally recognized cinematic tradition! The …
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 course completed a collaborative digital mapping project titled “Mapping Multiculturalism in Central Europe.” The project is now available for viewing …
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 to Victoria Chowaniak from Elmwood Park, Illinois, and Julia Paciorek, from Houston, Texas. Congratulations, Victoria and Julia! Gratulacje! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …
The Polish Review presents a special issue: “Writing Polish in America”: The Case of Anna Frajlich Professor Emerita of Polish Studies Halina Filipowicz, editor of The Polish Review, alerts everyone to a recent special issue devoted to Anna Frajlich. The March 2022 issue (vol. 67, no. 1), guest-edited by Ronald Meyer (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), …