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 …
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Allen Centennial’s 2022 Harvest Festival: Bountiful and Diverse Celebration
by Ryan J Dostal On October 8th, Allen Centennial’s Harvest Festival celebrated their Wyman Kitchen garden project, which featured Afro-Diasporic, Indigenous, and Hmong crops and gardening styles, with plenty of music, song, and dance. Specific …
Congratulations to AWSS 2022 Heldt Prize Winners! Listen to Their CREECA Lectures Here!
Congratulations to Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda for winning the 2022 AWSS Heldt prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies for their book, Routledge Handbook of …
Join the UW Russian Folk Orchestra!
The UW Russian Folk Orchestra (RFO), now in its 25th year, is an official UW-sponsored ensemble performing Russian and other Slavic and East-European music on authentic instruments such as balalaikas, domras, and bayans. The RFO …
Read the New Introduction to Fran Hirsch’s “Nuremberg and Russia’s War Against Ukraine”
Dr. Fran Hirsch reflects on the article she wrote in March 2022 about the importance of Nuremberg and Russia’s continued war on Ukraine, which has since been cited by international lawyers in a model criminal …
Community Updates – May 2022
In Memoriam Sandra Arfa, Director of the UW-Madison English as a Second Language program, died on May 5, 2022. Sandy was a core member of the UW-Madison Partnership with Nazarbayev University, lending her expertise to …
Congratulations and Appreciation for Bob Kaiser at His Retirement
Bob Kaiser (Geography) retired from UW-Madison in spring 2022 after 26 years of service to the university. Professor Kaiser’s research has explored the intersection of cultural and political geographies, including nationalism, borderlands, and cyberwar. He …
UW Students Continue Fundraising, Awareness Campaigns in Response to War in Ukraine
As the estimates of refugees and displaced persons in Ukraine continue to grow, humanitarian organizations have increasingly needed more supplies to respond to the crisis. Across Western Ukraine, strangers have welcomed fellow Ukrainians fleeing violence …
Claudia Torres Giraldo—A Multilingual Journey Toward Professional Russian Proficiency and Latinx Identity in Russia and Central Asia
Just as UW-Madison senior Claudia Torres Giraldo was wrapping up a year of Russian-language study in Kyrgyzstan this spring to head to Kazakhstan for a Russian-language internship, she received the Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award …
Commemorating the 1791 Ratification of Poland’s Constitution
At a May 2 event commemorating the 231st anniversary of the 1791 ratification of Poland’s Constitution at the Polish Center of Wisconsin, Don Pienkos (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UW-Milwaukee) gave remarks on the historical …