Administration Administrative & Office Assistant Columbus Council on World Affairs – Columbus, OH The Administrative & Office Assistant delivers efficient and professional administrative support to CCWA’s CEO and Vice President, as well as coordinate the …
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Fall Online Orientation for Court Interpreters
The Court Interpreter Program would like to invite your students to participate in the Fall 2021 Online Orientation for court interpreters. The Refugee Program from the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families is offering scholarships …
Event Recording of “The Voice Over: Poems and Essays – A Reading and Conversation” Now Available
On May 1, 2021, the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in partnership with A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, hosted “The Voice Over: Poems and Essays – A Reading …
Crimean Tatar Identity Event Series (April 2021)
“Displaced from Home: A Series on Crimea” – An event series concerning Crimean Tatar human rights and representations of the Crimean annexation in film. Sponsored by University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European & …
Fulbright US Student Program 2022-2023 information sessions: (March 31, 3 pm CDT and April 26, 5 pm CDT)
The 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition opens on March 31, 2021 and we have two online information sessions scheduled to kick off the application cycle on March 31 @ 3pm CDT and April 26 @ …
Karen Evans-Romaine Recognized by AATSEEL
Congratulations to CREECA’s Karen Evans-Romaine who received the award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession from the Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). The citation for the award from AATSEEL reads: …
Moscow, Mushrooms, & Mars: The research of one #ExchangeAlumni could change the future of space travel
Graham Shunk, a high school senior from North Carolina and exchange alumnus of the National Security Languages Initiative for Youth (NLSI-Y) program, is currently a finalist for NASA’s Grow Beyond Earth competition and has designed one …
Microfilm copies of Central Asian newspapers available to borrow
The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has preserved a large set of newspapers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. These newspapers were collected by Dr. William Fierman, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Central …
Peace Corps milestone to feature historic gathering on March 1
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps. That order has led to more than 240,000 Americans serving worldwide, including over 6,400 Wisconsinites, nearly 3,300 of …
CREECA Remembers Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, February 4 in Madison. She was 74. Born in Zabrze, Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with …