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REECAS News

Wisconsin Russia Project receives grant renewal from Carnegie Corporation

Posted on December 16, 2020

The Wisconsin Russia Project received a 24-month grant renewal of $700,000 this fall from Carnegie Corporation of New York. UW-Madison was one of three U.S. universities awarded this competitive grant as part of Carnegie Corporation’s …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged REECAS News

CREECA’s Yoshiko Herrera takes the virtual stage this fall to discuss race and jazz in Russia, U.S.-Russian relations

Posted on December 14, 2020

While 2020 has been the year of social distancing, mask-wearing, and remote meetings, the necessity of moving lectures and seminars online has also opened up opportunities to reach new audiences. One of several CREECA faculty …

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, REECAS News

Not your ‘Borat’ joke: UW-Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia charts a path to cultural understanding in the face of troublesome Hollywood stereotypes

Posted on November 16, 2020

Gulnara Glowacki, a UW-Madison senior lecturer in Kazakh Language and Culture, was recently featured in a College of Letters & Science news piece about teaching Kazakh language, literature, and culture. Read the full article here.

Posted in December 2020 NewsletterTagged REECAS News

New CREECA associates talk outreach, interdisciplinarity, and language studies

Posted on November 2, 2020

Three new CREECA associates, Krzysztof Borowski, Melissa Sheedy, and Liina-Ly Roos, have joined the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic (GNS+) this fall and have settled into new academic appointments at the start of this …

Posted in November 2020 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, REECAS News

REECAS alumna Caroline Savage’s storied career as a Foreign Service Officer and advice to future REECAS graduates

Posted on October 29, 2020

Since REECAS alumna Caroline Savage joined the Foreign Service 16 years ago, she has done work in DC and overseas in four of the five specialties of the Foreign Service within the State Department: Consular, …

Posted in November 2020 NewsletterTagged Alumni Spotlights, Featured Stories, REECAS News

Grant awarded to UW–Madison to study language proficiency gains in virtual and in-person instruction

Posted on October 19, 2020

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 …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged REECAS News

NSLI-Y students maintain motivation to advance Russian proficiency in the digital classroom, imagine Russian as part of a career

Posted on September 29, 2020

As North Carolina high school student Graham Shunk was wrapping up a virtual Russian course in August 2020, a journalist from the Russian-language television channel NTV-America reached out to invite him to give an interview–in …

Posted in September 2020 NewsletterTagged Featured Stories, Pushkin Summer Institute, REECAS News

CESSI celebrates Title VIII grant renewal and successful record-breaking, virtual summer

Posted on September 23, 2020

As summer 2020 started to wind down, CESSI (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute) received the good news that it is once again the recipient of a Title VIII grant that will enable CREECA to award …

Posted in September 2020 NewsletterTagged CESSI, Featured Stories, REECAS News

CREECA director Professor Ted Gerber publishes in Problems of Post-Communism

Posted on September 21, 2020

Follow this link for information on Professor Ted Geber’s latest publication “Who Cares? Russian Public Opinion during Medvedev’s Presidency on the Importance and Politicization of History” that appears in Problems of Post-Communism.

Posted in UncategorizedTagged REECAS News

August Book Recommendations From CREECA Outreach Coordinator

Posted on August 27, 2020

August is “Women in Translation Month,” and reading Nobel Prize Winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a perfect way to mark the occasion. Antonia Lloyd-Jones has superbly translated …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Book Recommendations, REECAS News
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