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 …
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Congratulations to Marsel Khamitov on TA Award!
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] …
Award-Winning Polish Poet Julia Fiedorczuk Comes to UW–Madison
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 …
Václav Havel’s Meanings: His Key Words and Their Legacy
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 …
Marsel Khamitov Defends His Dissertation Proposal
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 …
Victoria Buyanovskaya Defends Her Dissertation Proposal
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 …
The Pushkin Summer Institute (PSI)
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 …
Announcing 2023 Madison Polish Film Festival
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 …
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 …
Sara Karpukhin Writes about Nabokov’s Theory of Literary Evolution
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 …