Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration is a free, online, interactive Open Educational Resource that explores the diversity of Russian-speaking people and communities throughout the world. The textbook’s authors are Shannon …
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Announcing 2024 Madison Polish Film Festival
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 10 and November 17 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All …
April 26 Symposium “Lessons from the Revolutions of 1989”
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 …
Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2024
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 …
Announcing 2023/2024 Polish Language, Literature, and Culture Awards
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 …
Polish Poetry Meeting with Jerzy Jarniewicz and Piotr Florczyk
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 …
SEEJ Symposium on Rethinking Pedagogical Practices
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 …
President’s AATSEEL 2024 Roundtable on Representation in Slavic Studies
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 …
ACTR Elects New Board Members
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. …
Professor Wodzyński Receives Prestigious Award
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 …