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 …
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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 …
Victoria Buyanovskaya Publishes Article in “The Polish Review”
Current Slavic PhD student Victoria Buyanovskaya’s article on Bruno Schulz, titled “Turning Back Time to Keep Writing: Melancholic Memory and the Making of the Modern(ist) Self in Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the …
Russian Flagship Student Receives Prestigious Boren Scholarship
UW-Madison senior Madeline Rutherford is currently participating in the Russian Overseas Flagship Capstone Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A double major in Astrophysics and International Studies as well as a participant in the Russian Flagship Program, …
Language, Culture, and Adventure: A UW–Madison Student’s Summer in Wrocław, Poland
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 …