The UW-Madison Russian Folk Orchestra (RFO) is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a concert on April 8, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Concert Hall. Thanks to support from the Anonymous Fund of the College …
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Author Ruta Sepetys Visits Wisconsin
Internationally acclaimed Lithuanian-American author Ruta Sepetys visited Sun Prairie and Madison in January 2017 to discuss the role of historical fiction in fostering global understanding. Sepetys is the bestselling author of three works of historical …
Pushkin Summer Institute Receives STARTALK Grant
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has received $90,000 from STARTALK to support the Pushkin Summer Institute, a pre-college program that helps high school students from low-income and minority communities advance their study of Russian language and …
From Pyramiden with Love
The 2016 Wisconsin Triennial features a short film set in the Russian settlement of Pyramiden. Stephen Hilyard’s Катюша (Katyusha) combines footage from the abandoned settlement and footage shot in Wisconsin to tell the story of …
‘The Dragon’ Coming to Madison
A team of UW-Madison faculty and students is reviving Russian playwright Evgenii Shvarts’s 1943 play The Dragon. This staging, an English translation and adaptation of the Russian original, is the culmination of a longstanding vision …
The Wisconsin-Kazakhstan Bridge
In summer 2016, the University of Wisconsin-Madison once again hosted undergraduate students from Nazarbayev University (NU) in Astana, Kazakhstan as part of the ongoing partnership between the two universities. This year a program called WisKaz-BRIDGE …
Pushkin Summer Institute Launches Pushkin Scholars Program
The Pushkin Summer Institute (PSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the inaugural “Pushkin Scholars” program for prospective UW-Madison first-year students who will be applying for admission in fall 2017. Eligibility is limited to alumni …
Zolotoj Plyos Return to Wisconsin for a Weekend of Russian Folk Music
In April 2016, Russian folk ensemble Zolotoj Plyos visited Wisconsin for a series of student-centered performances and workshops. The group held a free concert on April 3 at the Sett in Union South, performed at …
Jenny Otting Talks with CREECA about Ed Policy and Working in Kosovo
Jennifer Otting is a doctoral student in Education Policy Studies with a concentration in Comparative & International Education. CREECA sat down with Jenny to discuss her work examining education policy in “fragile states,” a topic …
Remembering Al Senn
Alfred Erich Senn (April 12, 1932-March 8, 2016) began teaching in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961. During the following decades, Professor Senn rose to prominence as a scholar of Lithuanian …