The University of Wisconsin–Madison, home to one of the largest and strongest Russian programs in the nation, has received a four-year grant of $1.3 million from the National Security Education Program in the U.S. Department of Defense to support the UW-Madison Russian Flagship Program through 2024. This award recognizes the Russian Flagship’s decade-long record of providing an …
GNS Professor B. Venkat Mani’s recent article “Fighting the Shadow Pandemic” looks at xenophobia, racism, and discrimination in the time of the pandemic and calls for the urgent need of inclusive teaching. Read more at Inside Higher Ed’s website. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/05/14/inclusive-teaching-needed-help-combat-xenophobia-racism-and-discrimination-brought
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 month in Minneapolis. One, written as sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House and aptly titled A Doll’s House, …
Are you making the most out of your winter? GNS professor Claus E. Andersen talked to NBC15 News about the idea of “hygge” and what it means to embrace the winter months instead of fighting them. Check out the full story at https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Making-the-most-of-winter-566742801.html
On December 7th Scott Mellor presented his paper titled Oral-Formula and Formulaic Syntax in The Poetic Edda revisited at The Formula in Oral Poetry and Prose Conference in Tartu, Estonia. The symposium’s aim was to discuss new approaches, models, and interpretations of formulas in traditional poetry and prose. The symposium had a special focus on Old …
By Michelle Peterson University of Wisconsin–Madison Published in 1969, Freezing Down introduces readers to the unique and futuristic life of a fiction editor named Bruno. Living in a time with technological advancements, individuals can choose to be “frozen down,” a process in which their lives are essentially frozen in time, stopped, and later awoken at …
By Kourtney Juhl Minnesota State University, Mankato After finally gaining independence in 1905,[1] Norway had been a nation intent on building a national identity and relishing their freedom. The Norwegian Kingdom had successfully lived in peace, maintained neutrality through World War I, and hoped to remain neutral from the great conflict that was World War …
By Jonathan Chang University of California, Los Angeles Heroes are subjective. According to scholar of epics Dean Miller, “the word ‘hero’ projects to us a kind of spurious solidity, so that we use it, and hear it used, as if it actually referred to a single cognitive image.”[1] In this manner, the commonly accepted image …
By Jennifer Lien University of Wisconsin–Madison The immigration of the Viking pioneers to the North Atlantic islands was a period of expansive exploration, settlement, and colonization. Primary sources such as the King’s Mirror and Erik the Red’s Saga inform us about the lifestyles and the journeys of the Norse into the western part of the …