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 …
“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 …
L&S Profile of Russian Undergraduate Alum Kari Anderson
Russian Studies congratulates 2004 alum Kari Anderson on this Letters & Science profile , which is a must read. Kari was a speaker on a November 2022 panel organized by Anna Tumarkin about making a …
Celebrating 2022 Madison Polish Film Festival
Questions of family, happiness, and self-fulfillment dominated the 2022 edition of the Madison Polish Film Festival as another selection of new Polish films reached the UW campus. As usual, the event attracted a significant crowd …
Two Slavic Studies PhD Alums Reimagine the Teaching of Nabokov
Slavic Studies congratulates 2015 and 2016 PhD alums Sara Karpukhin (UW-Madison) and José Vergara (Bryn Mawr) on the open-access (free!) publication of their co-edited volume Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century (Amherst College Press, …
Slavic PhD Alums’ Books on Shortlist for AATSEEL Prize
Slavic Studies congratulates PhD alums Colleen Lucey (2016) and José Vergara (2016) on their books being shortlisted for the 2022 AATSEEL Prize for Best First Book in the field of Slavic and East European Studies. …
Video interview with Dr. Oksana Stoychuk
Slavic Studies is delighted to share a video interview with Dr. Oksana Stoychuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies. The video was produced by Sydney Langille, a current student in Dr. Stoychuk’s course “Ukrainian Culture & Society,” …