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  • GNS+ Statement Regarding the War in Ukraine

    We are teachers of Russian language and culture as well as other languages and cultures of Europe. Vladimir Putin’s launching of war on Ukraine, which has been condemned by the United Nations as a flagrant violation of the UN …

  • Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran

    Former GNS+ German program graduate student Mark Kloiber recently had an excellent article published in the Army University Press titled  “Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran”. You can read the full article on: Army …

  • Defining the Discipline – Vilas Research Professor of German Dead at 91

    On Saturday, October 9, 2021, Vilas Research Professor of German emeritus Jost Hermand died unexpectedly. Hermand joined the then Department of German (now in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+) in 1958 and helped put the Department – and the UW-Madison – on the map nationally and internationally.

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  • New Scholarship: The Karpat Turkish Language Scholarship

    The Karpat Scholarship provides awards to selected students who take Turkish Language courses. The scholarship offers $500 to each recipient in their first year of Turkish Language instruction at UW-Madison, and $1,000 to each recipient …

  • KEMAL H. KARPAT CENTER FOR TURKISH STUDIES: Small Grants Program for UW Graduate Students

    DESCRIPTION: The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies welcomes small grant applications from UW-Madison graduate students working in any area of Turkish Studies, broadly construed. The Karpat Center promotes excellence in the study of …

  • Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran

    Former GNS+ German program graduate student Mark Kloiber recently had an excellent article published in the Army University Press titled  “Principled Empathy: Perspectives of an Afghanistan Veteran”. You can read the full article on: Army …

  • Defining the Discipline – Vilas Research Professor of German Dead at 91

    On Saturday, October 9, 2021, Vilas Research Professor of German emeritus Jost Hermand died unexpectedly. Hermand joined the then Department of German (now in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+) in 1958 and helped put the Department – and the UW-Madison – on the map nationally and internationally.

  • 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 …

  • Alumni 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 …

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  • 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, …

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