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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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  • 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 …

  • Emily 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".

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  • Maksim Hanukai’s TRAGIC ENCOUNTERS: PUSHKIN AND EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM is out now

    Assistant professor Maksim Hanukai’s Tragic Encounters is available now! “Lucidly written and energetically argued, Tragic Encounters attends to significant theoretical questions, compellingly reconstructs important historical moments in Alexander Pushkin’s poetic career, and, most importantly, carefully and brilliantly reinterprets …

  • J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Paper

    On Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, Slavic Studies held its annual graduate-student led Wisconsin Slavic Conference. The winner of the J. Thomas Shaw Prize for Outstanding Graduate Paper presented at this year’s conference …

  • “Queer Russians”: A New Course in Slavic Studies

    Dr. Sara Karpukhin is teaching “Queer Russians” for the first time this semester. We interviewed her to find out more about the course.   What motivated you to offer this course?  Great question. Big question! …

  • The Wisconsin Slavic Conference

    Slavic’s annual graduate-student run conference—with the theme of “On the Edge: Cultural Geographies of Resistance”—will take place this Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. Dr. Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address …

  • Professor Łukasz Wodzyński Publishes in SEEJ

    In the Fall 2022 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal (66:3), Assistant Professor Łukasz Wodzyński published an analysis of Lovetown (Lubiewo in the original Polish), the breakthrough novel of the contemporary queer Polish …

  • Aselle Almuratova Wins ACTR Teaching Award

    Aselle Almuratova, current PhD student in Slavic Studies, has won an award for graduate-student teaching sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). The ACTR Award for Excellence in Teaching Russian at the …

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