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class="long-border-grey"> </div></div><div class="feature-three-col"><article class="feature-box no-button"><img alt="" src="russian_club.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Russian Club runs Movie Nights and Conversation Tables</h4><span>Please join the NU Russian Club each Thursday for Movie Nights or Conversation Tables.  Whether you’re just starting on your language journey or have been speaking Russian for years, everyone is welcome! Snacks and pizza provided!</span></div></article><article class="feature-box"><img alt="" src="news-events/news/2025/img_3150.jpeg"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Slavic 328 (City of Cultures, City of Conflict: Prague)聽explored authentic Czech cuisine </h4>Students in Prof. Kerlova's Slavic 328 (City of Cultures, City of Conflict: Prague) explored authentic Czech cuisine recently.</div><a class="button" href="news-events/news/2025/index.html">Click here to read more</a></article><article class="feature-box"><img alt="" src="467a3350.jpeg"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>NU launches Russian Philosophy, Literature and Culture research journal</h4><em><em>14 January 2024 —</em></em> <p>Yesterday’s <span data-markjs="true">journal</span> <span data-markjs="true">launch</span> was a well-attended success, and we invite you to read The Daily Northwestern’s <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/01/13/campus/nu-launches-russian-philosophy-literature-and-culture-research-journal/">coverage on the event.  </a></p> <p><span>The first issue includes articles by Saul Morson, Mikhail Epstein, Caryl Emerson, Rowan Williams, our graduate students Jillian Pignataro and Brad Underwood among others.  The </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight" data-markjs="true">Journal</span><span> is the result of collaboration with the Libraries and with Media and Design and will be distributed around the world.<br/></span></p> <p><em>photo L-R: <span>Aerith Netzer (of NU Libraries), Brad Underwood, Susan McReynolds, Randall Poole, and Sergei Kalugin (of NU Media and Design). photo </span></em><em>credit: Liz Cassidy</em></p> <p> </p></div><a class="button" href="news-events/news/2025/index.html">Read more about the inaugural issue here</a></article></div><div class="feature-three-col"><article class="feature-box no-button"><img alt="" src="polish-club.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Polish Conversation Tables</h4>Polish Conversation tables run each Tuesday at 5pm in our Slavic lounge this Winter quarter.  Students with all levels of proficiency are welcome!</div></article><article class="feature-box"><img alt="" src="news-events/news/2023/cavanagh-zagajewski.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Cavanagh in the Washington Post</h4><span><em>February 26, 2023 —</em> Professor </span><strong>Clare Cavanagh</strong><span>'s article on her collaboration with the poet Adam Zagajewski will appear in the Sunday Book World section of the </span><em>Washington Post</em><span>. Congratulations, Clare!</span></div><a class="button" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/02/23/adam-zagajewski-translation-true-life/">Read Clare's piece</a></article><article class="feature-box"><img alt="" src="images/polish-360x200.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Study Polish with Professor Wilczewski</h4><span>Now is the perfect time to take Polish Studies courses at Northwestern! Between the Slavic Department’s rich course offerings in Polish language, literature, culture, film, and history, and Chicago's deep Polish cultural heritage, there are so many opportunities to embrace and connect with Polish culture. </span></div><a class="button" href="news-events/news/2022/study-polish.html">Polish Course Info</a></article></div><div class="feature-three-col"><article class="feature-box"><img alt="" src="news-events/news/2023/pysanky-demo---mar-3,-2023---close-up-.jpeg"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Pysanky demo held</h4><p><em>March 3, 2023</em> — Ukrainian <em>pysanky </em>artist <strong>Janet Hundrieser </strong>organized a <em>pysanky </em>event this past Friday, March 3 on the ground floor of Kresge Hall. The event, a demonstration for <a href="https://forms.office.com/r/15bfThhsBY">the day-long workshop April 1</a>, was widely attended and a great success!</p></div><a class="button" href="news-events/news/2023/pysanky-painting-demonstration-held-march-3.html">Read More</a></article><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Message from the Chair</h4><p><span><em>The entire world is focused on the horrific war on civilians Russia is waging in Ukraine. As  scholars in Slavic, we feel a special obligation to serve as a resource in this difficult time. One of our highest obligations is to education:  we are committed to supporting all students, scholars, and institutions in Ukraine and Russia who oppose and are suffering the consequences of Putin's aggression and repression. Ani Kokobobo, a Tolstoy scholar and immigrant from eastern Europe, offers a helpful perspective on the devastating impact of war on education. </em></span></p> <p> </p></div><a class="button" href="news-events/news/2021/war-is-the-enemy-of-education.html">Read Full Article</a></article><article class="feature-box no-button"><img alt="" src="images/home-page/opera-360x200.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>King Roger聽at the Chicago Opera Theater</h4>20 students in Professor <strong>Michał Wilczewski</strong>'s "Intermediate Polish" and "Sex in the Slavic World" courses, as well as others from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, attended Karol Szymanowski’s 1924 opera<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">King Roger</i> at the Chicago Opera Theater.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">King Roger</i>, which is sung entirely in Polish, is one of Szymanowski’s most important works, and arguably one of Poland’s most important operas. This performance was its Chicago debut.</div></article></div><div class="feature-three-col"><article class="feature-box no-button"><img alt="" src="images/home-page/pysankysmall.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Pysanky Workshop Reception</h4>Thank you to all who joined us as students showcased the <em>pysanky</em> art they created during a three day workshop with Ukrainian <em>pysanky</em> artist <strong>Janet Hundrieser</strong> and Professor <span><strong>Michał Wilczewski</strong>. Made possible by the generosity of the Irwin & Vivian M. Weil Foundation, the Council on Language Instruction, SelfReliance Federal Credit Union, and the Ukrainian Gift Shop.</span></div></article><article class="feature-box no-button"><img alt="" src="images/home-page/homepage-story-pic.png"/><div class="feature-copy"><h4>New books by two NU Slavic PhDs</h4><div class="elementToProof"><strong>Katia Bowers</strong> has published <em><a href="https://utorontopress.com/9781487526924/writing-fear/"><u>Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic</u></a></em> at U. of Toronto Press, and <strong>Jenny Kaminer</strong>'s book <em><a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762192/haunted-dreams/"><u>Haunted Dreams: Fantasies of Adolescence in Post-Soviet Culture</u></a></em> recently came out from Cornell. Congratulations, Katia and Jenny!</div></div></article></div></section><section class="contain-1120"><div class="section-top"><h3>Our Programs</h3><div class="long-border-grey"> </div></div><div class="feature-two-col"><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Undergraduate</h4><p>We offer beginning, intermediate and advanced Russian and Polish (and, less often, beginning and intermediate Czech), in addition to Russian and East European literature and film courses.  Many of our students are double majors, or are pursuing a minor in Russian and East European Studies to complement their studies.  Many of our majors and minors have studied abroad in Russia, Poland or the Czech Republic.</p></div><a class="button" href="undergraduate/index.html">Get Details</a></article><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Graduate</h4><p>Our PhD program ranks among the best in the country.  We offer individual attention and the opportunity to pursue a personalized program by way of coursework taken outside the department.  Students specialize in Russian literature, but our faculty also includes specialists in Polish, Czech and South Slavic literatures and cultures.  Our greatest strengths are in Russian prose and poetry, literary theory, and in the social and intellectual context of literary works.</p></div><a class="button" href="graduate/index.html">Get Details</a></article></div><div class="feature-two-col"><article class="feature-box no-button"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Undergraduate Student Excellence </h4><h1 class="p1">Congratulations to our award winners for the 2023–24 academic year!</h1> <p class="p1"> </p> <h5 class="p1">KULTURA I LINGVISTIKA HONOR IN RUSSIAN WINNERS</h5> <p>Pete Wang, Aliyah Salihah Moad, Ernie Kaye, Julia Marshall, Graham Yarden, <em>and </em>Enrique Sheils</p> <h5 class="p1">KULTURA I LINGWISTYKA HONOR IN POLISH WINNERS</h5> <p class="p1">Julian Jarmula</p> <h5 class="p1">IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ESSAYS IN SLAVIC LITERATURES AND CULTURES</h5> <p class="p1">Joanna Soltys <em>and</em> Austin Benedetto</p></div></article><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Graduate Student Excellence </h4><p>Congratulations to our outstanding graduate students</p> <h5 class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span><span class="JsGRdQ">Slavic Departmental Awards</span></span></h5> <h6><span class="JsGRdQ">IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING -</span><span class="JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap"><span> </span></span><span class="JsGRdQ">LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT</span></h6> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">Daniel Lee</span></p> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">Ryan Serrano</span></p> <h6 class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING</span><span class="JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap"></span></h6> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">Nadia Vinogradova</span></p> <h6 class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">IRWIN WEIL AWARD FOR FIRST TIME TEACHING ASSISTANT</span><span class="JsGRdQ white-space-prewrap"></span></h6> <p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">Elena Poiata</span></p> <p> </p> <h5 class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body"><span><span class="JsGRdQ">External Awards</span></span></h5> <p><span><span class="JsGRdQ"><strong>Jiwon Jung</strong> on her acceptance to the <a href="https://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/funding/fellowships-and-grants/internal-fellowships-grants/dissertation-proposal-development-program/">Dissertation Proposal Development Program</a>, for her project titled <em>Picturing beyond the Boundaries: The Question of Mental Illness Represented in A. Chekhov’s Literary Works</em>. In the Dissertation Proposal Program, faculty actively guide 18 humanities and social science PhD students, who are in their second and third years, in designing effective research questions, methodologies, contexts, and interventions. </span></span></p> <p><strong>Adam Willson</strong> on the receipt of a <span>scholarship to Middlebury's language program.</span></p> <h1><strong>Anastasiia Simferovska</strong> on the receipt of the <span>Crown Graduate fellowship and</span> the Northwestern Holocaust Educational Foundation Teaching Grant to teach her own course "Document-Image-Text:The Holocaust in East European Art and Literatures." She plans to teach this course at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) in the academic year 2022-2023.</h1> <div></div> <p> </p></div><a class="button" href="graduate/grad-accomplishments.html">Read More </a></article></div></section><section class=""><div class="section-top"><h3>News and Events</h3><div class="long-border-grey"> </div></div><div class="home-news-events contain-1120"><section class="highlight"><h4>Joint Statement of Opposition to Banning Scholars Based on Citizenship</h4><div class="short-border-black"> </div><div class="description"><div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <p class="m_6463394375010455113main-content-text"><span><em>The statement below, along with its translation in Ukrainian and Russian, can found on the</em> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fwww.aseees.org*2Fadvocacy*2Fjoint-statement-opposition-banning-scholars-based-citizenship&data=04*7C01*7Caseees*40list.pitt.edu*7C15f4ddca94bf44c1851708da023c0589*7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d*7C1*7C0*7C637824754048581755*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=vCUtrZPTTJfN46CbdRL7e9PI0Bl0iXBeKYBRkILOlgI*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!GQTrl28guUZHPTUHIaB-FUgt-3IWCPrCuFi-sltmvyqbuTrJhd5ts9E8VoSnq3iGCYL7K951FA$" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fwww.aseees.org*2Fadvocacy*2Fjoint-statement-opposition-banning-scholars-based-citizenship&data=04*7C01*7Caseees*40list.pitt.edu*7C15f4ddca94bf44c1851708da023c0589*7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d*7C1*7C0*7C637824754048581755*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=vCUtrZPTTJfN46CbdRL7e9PI0Bl0iXBeKYBRkILOlgI*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!GQTrl28guUZHPTUHIaB-FUgt-3IWCPrCuFi-sltmvyqbuTrJhd5ts9E8VoSnq3iGCYL7K951FA$">ASEEES website</a>.</span></p> <p class="m_6463394375010455113main-content-text"><span>As international professional associations that foster the study of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian peoples and cultures, ASEEES, BASEES, and AATSEEL* are committed to promoting international communication among scholars of all countries and identities across the humanities and social sciences. 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The Russian Club Conve...</p></div></article><article class="event"><div class="event-date"><div class="month">Mar</div><div class="day">4</div><div class="year">2025</div></div><div class="event-description"><h5><a href="https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/625418" onclick="window.open('https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/625418','event','width=575,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes').focus(); return false;" target="_blank">Polish Conversation Table</a></h5><p class="event-time-location">5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston</p><p>Polish Conversation Tables are held every Tuesday at 5pm in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department lobby, adjacent to Kresge 3...</p></div></article></section><section class="news"><h4>Latest News</h4><div class="short-border-black"> </div><h5><a href="news-events/news/2025/index.html">NU launches new journal</a></h5><p class="button"><a href="news-events/news/2025/index.html">2025 News</a></p></section></div></section> </main> </div> <footer> <div class="contain-970"> <div class="footer-content"><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu"><img alt="Northwestern University" src="https://common.northwestern.edu/v8/css/images/northwestern-university.svg"/></a> <ul> <li>© <script>// <![CDATA[ document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) // ]]></script> Northwestern University</li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/facilities/building-campus-access/building-access/">Building Access</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency/index.html">Campus Emergency Information</a></li> <li><a href="https://hr.northwestern.edu/careers/">Careers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/contact.html">Contact Northwestern University</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/privacy/index.html">Privacy Statement</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/accessibility/about/report-accessibility-issue.html">Report an Accessibility Issue</a></li> <li><a href="https://policies.northwestern.edu/">University Policies</a></li> </ul></div> <div class="footer-content contact"><ul><li class="footer-pin-icon"><span class="hide-label">Address</span></li><li><strong>Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures</strong></li><li>Kresge Centennial Hall, Room 3-305, 1880 Campus Drive</li><li>Evanston, IL 60208-2204</li></ul><ul><li class="footer-phone-icon"><span class="hide-label">Phone number</span></li><li><strong>Phone</strong></li><li>847.491.5636</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Fax</strong></li><li>847.467.2596</li></ul><ul><li class="footer-email-icon"><span class="hide-label">Email Address</span></li><li><a href="mailto:slavic@northwestern.edu">slavic@northwestern.edu</a></li></ul></div> <div class="footer-content"><p><strong>Social Media</strong></p><a class="social facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Department-of-Slavic-Languages-and-Literatures/872914956087858">Facebook</a><div id="subscribe-box"><h2>Facebook for Polish Language Program</h2><p><a class="button" href="https://www.facebook.com/northwesternpolishprogram/">Sign Up Now</a></p></div></div> <div class="footer-content"><ul> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/norris/services/bookstore.html">Bookstore</a></li> <li><a href="https://offices.northwestern.edu/">Directory</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.library.northwestern.edu/">Library</a></li> <li><a href="https://maps.northwestern.edu/">Maps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/">Parking</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/shuttles/routes/">Shuttles</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </footer> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/scripts.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/swiper.jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/content-slider.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>