Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration Diverse Russian: A Multicultural Exploration is a free, online, interactive Open Educational Resource that explores the diversity of Russian-speaking people and communities throughout the world. The textbook’s authors are Shannon Donnally Quinn, an Associate Professor of Russian at Michigan State University and a PhD alum (2007) from Slavic Languages and …
The Madison Polish Film Festival is back! This year, the festival will take place on November 10 and November 17 at the Marquee Cinema (located in Union South) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. All screenings are FREE and OPEN to the public. Join us to again celebrate Poland’s vibrant and universally recognized cinematic tradition, …
The department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, where Turkish instruction is housed at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, extends our support to all our students, colleagues, and friends from Turkey and Syria. Our hearts break for the lives lost and for the grief you are experiencing. We ask all those on the campus community, …
GNS+ extends congratulations to Morgan Cacic for receiving the Graduate Student Service Scholarship! The Graduate Student Service Scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. While service can come in many different forms and all service to the university is …
What lessons might be drawn—for us in the here and now—from studying the cultural-historical space of pre-1989 (post-)totalitarian East Central Euope? How might dissidentism as practiced in that time and place help us better understand dissent as a general modern phenomenon? Please join us for a one-day symposium that explores these questions. The symposium takes …
The Wisconsin Slavic Conference, an annual event planned and implemented by PhD students in Slavic, took place on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13. The keynote speaker was Rossen Djagalov (New York University), who presented on “Multinational Soviet Literature: A World-Literature History.” Our returning program alum for this year’s event was Thomas Tabatowski, who …
The Polish Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Lapinski, Zawacki, and Gąsiorowska awards for the academic year 2023-2024. Among the awardees are undergraduate and graduate students who will receive financial support for their continued study of the Polish language, literature, and culture at UW–Madison and beyond. Congratulations! The Lapinski fund provides financial support …
One of the latest episodes of the BBC program In Our Time features Thomas Dubois on a panel of experts talking about the Kalevala. Listen to the episode here. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Finnish epic poem that first appeared in print in 1835 in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part …
Meetings with Polish poetry continue this month as the UW–Madison Polish Program is hosting Jerzy Jarniewicz (University of Łódź), a Polish poet, translator, and literary critic whose first poetic volume in English was published in 2023. The event will also feature Jarniewicz’s translator into English, scholar, essayist, and an award-winning poet Piotr Florczyk (University of …
The Winter 2023 issue of the Slavic and East European Journal, just published, features a symposium titled “Rethinking Pedagogical Practices at the Nexus of Pandemic and War: Technology, Access, Equity, Inclusion, and Representation in Our Field.” The symposium was coordinated by UW-Madison Professor Karen Evans-Romaine and Slavic Studies PhD alum Shannon Donnally Quinn (Michigan State …