Christine Garlough’s Book Desi Divas Featured on NBC News
GNS+ professor and Folklore Program head Christine Garlough’s book Desi Divas was recently featured on NBC New’s article “Books that show Asian Americans have never been silent.” The book focuses on the political uses of …
Can Inclusivity Cross a Language Barrier?
Lost in Transition: Can Inclusivity Cross a Language Barrier? By: S.A. Karpukhin “Compared to their American counterparts, Russian inclusive terms are not meant to represent or empower; they are meant, ultimately, to be tokens of …
Turkish Shows and Films Now Offered as a Course at an American University!
This week GNS+ professor Nâlân Erbil was featured in Turkish language newspaper Önce Vatan Gazetesi. This interview, originally conducted in Turkish, is part of a series of interviews with influential Turkish-Americans for the Turkish speaking …
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Q&A With New GNS+ Lecturer Melissa Sheedy
GNS+ welcomes one of our newest lecturers Melissa Sheedy. Melissa received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In and outside of the classroom, she is always ready to talk about Romanticism, fairytales, GDR and …
September 22, 2020Alumni Stories: Barbara Jedele
When did you graduate and with what degrees? I graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor’s Degree in German, French and International Studies and a Certificate in European Studies and in 2015 with a Masters in French …
June 15, 2020Emily Janicik Receives Research Fellowship and Grant
Emily Janicik is a rising senior majoring in Economics and German with Honors in the Liberal Arts. She is writing her senior thesis in collaboration with Professor B. Venkat Mani titled "Xenophobic Policies in the Name of Gratitude: Refugee Experiences with the German and Austrian Governments".
May 26, 2020Remembering Klaus L. Berghahn
Klaus L. Berghahn August 5, 1937 – November 1, 2019 Klaus Berghahn was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the youngest of five children of Wilhelm and Anna Berghahn. Klaus came of age in the aftermath of …
November 4, 2019Crossing Borders and Shattering Boundaries at the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere”
“With the global turn of societies, nations, and countries to adopt an inward gaze fueled by exclusionary policies and politics, our unique collaboration in Berlin—though small—in a non-competitive, friendly, supportive, and engaging atmosphere may indeed …
September 25, 2019Exploring The European Refugee Crisis: Q&A with Leighty Hanrahan
Leighty Hanrahan is not your average UW-Madison student. As a triple-majoring Honors student and recipient of multiple undergraduate fellowships, she has not only set her sights high, but is reaching those heights with her most …
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Nete Schmidt Retires
It is difficult to imagine Scandinavian Studies at UW–Madison without Nete Schmidt. But that, nevertheless, is what we have to do as she announced that she will retire at the end of this academic year. …
May 6, 2021Myths, Tales, and Poetry, a New Publication Involving GNS+ Chair Tom DuBois
Myths, Tales, and Poetry An anthology edited by Harald Gaski This anthology presents Sámi oral and written texts from the last four hundred years – Sámi narratives and poetry relating creation of the world, the …
July 7, 2020Heritage Repatriation and Educational Sovereignty at an Ojibwe Public School
Heritage Repatriation and Educational Sovereignty at an Ojibwe Public School explores ways in which folklorists can support or enhance educational sovereignty occurring in communities. In this article authors B. Marcus Cederström, Thomas A. DuBois, Tim …
July 2, 2020Things don’t turn out like you think they will — but it turns out OK.
The Corona pandemic has forced Swedish teachers around the world to work from home as all classroom teaching needed to be changed in record time. Online lessons became the daily learning platforms and other digital …
June 9, 2020Susan Brantly Interviewed in the Star Tribune
GNS Professor Susan Brantly was recently featured in the Star Tribune’s article “Two plays opening this weekend ask what’s next for Nora of ‘A Doll’s House’.” The article discusses two new plays being performed this …
February 3, 2020Dr. Scott Mellor Featured in Swedish Press
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Slavic Studies Congratulates Jesse Kruschke!
Slavic Studies congratulates Jesse Kruschke, who has recently defended her dissertation proposal! We interviewed Jesse to find out more about the topic. What are you planning on researching and writing about? Please give us the …
June 16, 2021Czech Studies in the Washington Post
Czech Studies in the Washington Post A recent article in the Washington Post about a proposed law in the Czech Republic to allow women to choose non-gendered last names features input by Professor David S. …
June 14, 2021How Humor Helped Us Survive Communist Reality in Poland
How Humor Helped Us Survive Communist Reality in Poland A native Pole and former UW-Madison instructor gives a first-person account of life under communism in Poland. Irena Frączek, a longtime instructor and lecturer in the …
April 12, 2021Maksim Hanukai on “Spectral Performance” in Putin’s Russia
Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, has recently published an article in the prestigious Slavic Review titled “Resurrection by Surrogation: Spectral Performance in Putin’s Russia.” Hanukai investigates the growing importance in Russia of practices …
April 7, 20212021 Wisconsin Slavic Conference: April 9-10
The UW-Madison Slavic Graduate Student Organization presents the 2021 Wisconsin Slavic Conference on April 9 and 10, 2021! Friday, April 9 The Keynote Lecture by Professor Ilya Vinitsky (Princeton University), titled “Fake Tolstoy as …
April 7, 2021GNS+ Alum Molly Thomasy Blasing Publishes New Book
Molly Thomasy Blasing (PhD, Slavic Studies, 2014) Slavic Studies PhD alum Molly Thomasy Blasing is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the …
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