A panel organized by Anna Tumarkin and devoted to the topic of providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians displaced by the war who have crossed the border into Poland was held on the afternoon of November 1, 2022. Two panelists, who both spent part of their summer volunteering at the Center for Humanitarian Aid in Przemyśl, …
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 13 and 20 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 celebrate Poland’s vibrant and universally recognized cinematic tradition! The …
From Berlin to Białystok, from Vienna to Wolin—the map of Central Europe is full of places where multiple cultures, languages, religions, and traditions intersect. To document and promote this diversity, students in a new Slavic course completed a collaborative digital mapping project titled “Mapping Multiculturalism in Central Europe.” The project is now available for viewing …
Melissa Miller received her PhD from Slavic Studies (with a minor in Second Language Acquisition) in 2016. Her dissertation was titled Anton Chekhov and the Modernization of Sexuality in Late Imperial Russia. She taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Macalester College, and the University of Notre Dame before beginning a tenure-track Assistant Professor position this fall …
Each year, the UW–Madison Polish Studies Program announces the recipients of the Lapinski scholarship, received as a generous endowment from the will of Mrs. Leona Lapinski Leute. In the academic year 2022/2023, the Lapinski awards went to Victoria Chowaniak from Elmwood Park, Illinois, and Julia Paciorek, from Houston, Texas. Congratulations, Victoria and Julia! Gratulacje! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …
Slavic Studies PhD alum (2016) Colleen Lucey returned to campus on Thursday, September 22 to give a CREECA talk drawn from her recent book Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (Cornell University Press, 2021). The book is a reworked and expanded version of her dissertation, Figures of Desires and Disgrace: Woman as Commodity …
Just as UW-Madison senior Claudia Torres Giraldo was wrapping up a year of Russian-language study in Kyrgyzstan this spring to head to Kazakhstan for a Russian-language internship, she received the Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award from the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), a recognition of her excellence in and commitment to Russian-language studies. Indeed, Torres …
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 competition for graduate students was sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russian at New York University. …
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 2022-23Victoria ChowaniakJulia Paciorek Zawacki FellowshipMonika Juras Russian Awards J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Undergraduate ExcellenceGrace Johnson J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding …
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 expecting to major in linguistics and journalism. Having moved from Poland to America in 2006, I started out somewhat familiar …