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 volume seeks to understand how certain words in Havel’s thought serve as intellectual touchstones around which his larger message takes …
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 the research topic. What will your dissertation be about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation will …
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 about the research topic. What will your dissertation be about? Please give us the elevator pitch. My dissertation …
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 while the latter offers students a six-week Russian immersion experience in Daugavpils, Latvia. PSI Madison aims to: build and improve …
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 …
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 more about her research. What aspects of Nabokov’s literary evolution do you focus on in this article- and why these? …
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 Hourglass (1937), has been published in the most recent edition of the academic journal The Polish Review. The article reads …
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, Rutherford’s year in Kazakhstan is partly funded by her receipt of a prestigious Boren Scholarship. David L. Boren Scholarships are …
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 …