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Slavic Studies congratulates second-year graduate student Viktoria Buyanovskaya on winning the Grand Prize in Cultural Studies for her essay “Paralysis of Complicity in Dmitri Prigov and Beyond: How to Do Things with Metaphors Now?”. The …

Slavic Studies Undergraduate Awards for Spring 2022 Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the following winners of undergraduate awards in Polish Studies and Russian Studies.   Polish Awards  Lapinski Fellowships for AY 2022-23 Victoria Chowaniak …

­­­­You’ve studied widely in Slavic Studies during your four years here. What drew you to the field as a first-year student? It was interesting — I thoroughly liked learning languages and initially came to UW-Madison …

Three books from PhD alums nominated for awards! Slavic Studies congratulates three recent PhD alums—Molly Thomasy Blasing, Colleen Lucey, and José Vergara—whose first books, all published by Cornell University Press in 2021, have been nominated …

Wisconsin Slavic Conference 2022 Organized by Assel Almuratova, Jesse Kruschke, and Isabella Palange, this year’s Wisconsin Slavic Conference was held on March 25-26. We thank Prof. Joanna Niżyńska (Indiana University), who gave an inspiring keynote …

Slavic Studies to offer Ukrainian language and culture in Fall 2022 Slavic Studies is delighted to announce that Dr. Oksana Stoychuk, a native of Lviv in Ukraine, will be teaching Ukrainian language and culture in …

Humanities Now: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Andrey Ivanov, Anna Tumarkin, Francine Hirsch, and Kirill Ospovat Hosted by the Center for Humanities For over a month, we’ve witnessed the brutal attack by Russian forces on the people …