Thanks to funding from the Library Collections Enhancement Initiative (LCEI), online databases of three Soviet-era journals have been added to the collections of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. An LCEI proposal by Irina Shevelenko (CREECA director and Professor …
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Read “War Crimes: What Are They? How Can They Be Prosecuted?” by Dr. Francine Hirsch
In the months since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, we’ve seen mounting evidence of Russian war crimes including the rape, torture, and murder of civilians, the bombing of …
Donation Drive for Ukraine
Former CREECA PA Emily Gams (former Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine) is organizing a donation drive to support people in Ukraine. The CREECA office will serve as one of several donation drop-off locations. Please read …
Announcing Madison Polish Film Festival 2021
After an online edition in 2020, the Madison Polish Film Festival returns to its traditional, in-person format with an eclectic selection of the latest in Polish cinematography. This year, the festival will take place on …
Access to Nobel Prize-Winning Russian Journalism
In early October, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 was awarded in part to Novaia gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov and fellow journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2021/press-release/ UW-Madison library patrons can access Novaia gazeta …
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 & …
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 …