Summer 2018 featured a high-school teachers’ workshop on Czechoslovak history in the second half of the 20th century. The workshop was co-sponsored by CREECA and co-facilitated by Slavic professor David S. Danaher. Thirteen teachers from …
Carson Fish
What is or will (or might be) the focus of your dissertation research? I’d really love to explore queer themes in contemporary Russian literature, film, and/or drama. For now that’s still very broad, but that’s the …
Cecil Leigh Wilson
What is the focus of your dissertation research? My dissertation, still in early stages, is on disability and holy fools in Russian literature. I’m interested in using the familiar figure of the holy fool as …
Kirill Ospovat
What are your current and future research projects? I am currently developing two book projects. The first investigates the introduction of Western-type science to Russia under Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century. I …
Maksim Hanukai
What are your current and future research projects? My main research project right now is a book on Alexander Pushkin. Although I had been exposed to Pushkin’s works in one way or another from an …
Alice Volkov
What is the focus of your dissertation research? I’m in my first year here at UW-Madison, but hopefully my dissertation will be focused on translation of Russian poetry from Russian into English. One of my …
Our First Filmen Fredag
Norden House’s first official Filmen Fredag took place this past week in Adams. This week’s film was A Man Called Ove, a swedish dramatic comedy based on the worldwide best-selling novel. The story follows a …
Norway Summer Abroad Video Project
Bryce Gilder, a student of Peggy Hager, created this video diary of his adventures while studying abroad in Norway in the ISS Oslo Study Program. He filmed his experiences each day and used this project …
Meet Samantha
Hej hej! My name is Samantha Erickson, and I am a first-year student at UW-Madison. I am majoring in International Studies and Scandinavian studies and living in Norden House in Adams Residence Hall. I was …
Kokko and Aurinko: A Finnish-American Juhannus Festival
John Prusynski, Nordic Graduate Student of UW-Madison, wrote this feature for a photo essay in the summer fieldwork course: Folklore 490: Field Methods and the Public Presentation of Folklore in June of 2018. He talks …