The Wisconsin Russia Project received a 24-month grant renewal of $700,000 this fall from Carnegie Corporation of New York. UW-Madison was one of three U.S. universities awarded this competitive grant as part of Carnegie Corporation’s …
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CREECA’s Yoshiko Herrera takes the virtual stage this fall to discuss race and jazz in Russia, U.S.-Russian relations
While 2020 has been the year of social distancing, mask-wearing, and remote meetings, the necessity of moving lectures and seminars online has also opened up opportunities to reach new audiences. One of several CREECA faculty …
Winter Break Novel Recommendation: CREECA assistant director Sarah Linkert reviews The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated from Russian by Carol Apollonio
Looking to round out your reading list for winter break? CREECA has a “novel” recommendation just in time for the holiday season, and assistant director and outreach coordinator Sarah Linkert has reviewed The Mountain and …
Not your ‘Borat’ joke: UW-Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia charts a path to cultural understanding in the face of troublesome Hollywood stereotypes
Gulnara Glowacki, a UW-Madison senior lecturer in Kazakh Language and Culture, was recently featured in a College of Letters & Science news piece about teaching Kazakh language, literature, and culture. Read the full article here.
New CREECA associates talk outreach, interdisciplinarity, and language studies
Three new CREECA associates, Krzysztof Borowski, Melissa Sheedy, and Liina-Ly Roos, have joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic (GNS+) this fall and have settled into new academic appointments at the start of this …
REECAS alumna Caroline Savage’s storied career as a Foreign Service Officer and advice to future REECAS graduates
Since REECAS alumna Caroline Savage joined the Foreign Service 16 years ago, she has done work in DC and overseas in four of the five specialties of the Foreign Service within the State Department: Consular, …
NSLI-Y students maintain motivation to advance Russian proficiency in the digital classroom, imagine Russian as part of a career
As North Carolina high school student Graham Shunk was wrapping up a virtual Russian course in August 2020, a journalist from the Russian-language television channel NTV-America reached out to invite him to give an interview–in …
CESSI celebrates Title VIII grant renewal and successful record-breaking, virtual summer
As summer 2020 started to wind down, CESSI (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute) received the good news that it is once again the recipient of a Title VIII grant that will enable CREECA to award …
Free Professional Development Webinar for Educators on Digital Identity and Intellectual Property
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, European Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invite you to attend “Your Digital Personality” — a free professional development webinar …
Encore Presentations from the CREECA Lecture Series Available to Stream/Read
This spring, CREECA has been sharing some of the most memorable talks from the CREECA Lecture Series on Facebook and Twitter. Our selection of hand-picked favorites is available to stream via the CREECA Podcast. Follow …