“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 & …
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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 …
CREECA Faculty Win 2021 Distinguished Teaching Awards
CREECA faculty members Yoshiko Herrera and Sunny Yudkoff have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. A virtual recognition event will …
CREECA at 2020 ASEEES Virtual Convention
Hey CREECA friends and alumni! Are you attending the 2020 ASEEES Virtual Convention? In lieu of both CREECA’s regular Thursday lecture series and ASEEES Annual Convention alumni reunion, we invite you to “drop in” for …
Grant awarded to UW–Madison to study language proficiency gains in virtual and in-person instruction
Among the many lessons highlighted by the current pandemic is the need to be able to understand and reimagine instruction, especially as many educators and students grapple with questions about the benefits and challenges of …