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Baumann Presents Workshop</h4><div class="news-date">December 11, 2018</div><div class="news-description">On December 11, 2018, The Council on Language Instruction at Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences offered a presentation by Dr. Catherine C. Baumann, Director of the University of Chicago Language Center.  This workshop, the first in a series, was called <em>Teaching for Proficiency -1</em>.  Dr. Baumann focused on implementing ACTFL Guidelines and using reverse design to achieve teaching outcomes.  More than 25 Northwestern faculty and graduate students participated in the workshop.</div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="baumann-workshop-3.jpg"/><h4>Upcoming Teaching for Proficiency Workshops</h4><div class="news-date">December 11, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Kinga Kosmala, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was a co-organizer of the December 11 workshop.  She states, "Thank you for attending the first workshop of the Teaching for Proficiency series with Dr. Catherine Baumann of the University of Chicago.  Stay tuned for more information on the Winter Workshop. We are looking forward to seeing you all there!"</div></article><h3 id="November">November</h3><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../../../images/firework-small.jpg"/><h4>NU Associated Student Government Honors Three Slavic Professors</h4><div class="news-date">November 12, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><span>Congratulations to Professors <a href="../../../people/faculty/elliott-elisabeth.html">Elisabeth Elliott</a>, <a href="../../../people/faculty/kerlova-martina.html">Martina Kerlova</a>, and <a href="../../../people/faculty/morson-gary-saul.html">Gary Saul Morson</a> for their nominations to the NU Associated Student Government Faculty and Administration Honor Roll!</span></div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../../../_digital-signage/pasa-run-news-square.jpg"/><h4>Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Polish Independence with a 10k Run/Walk</h4><div class="news-date">November 11, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Students from Professor <a href="/people/faculty/kosmala-kinga">Kinga Kosmala</a>'s class and the Polish American Students Association (PASA) and Pani Kinga celebrated the centennial of Polish Independence by participating in a 10k run/walk (Bieg Stulecia).  They proudly represented Northwestern, PASA, and their <span class="il">Polish</span> heritage.</div></article><h3 id="September">September</h3><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../fair-photo-2018-170x170.jpg"/><h4>Welcome, Freshmen!</h4><div class="news-date">September 25, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Welcome to all first-years/freshmen, including those our faculty and grad students had the pleasure of meeting at the Academic Directions Fair on September 24 and at our Open House on October 18!  See <a href="mailto:%20m-kerlova@northwestern.edu">Martina Kerlova</a>, our DUS, with any questions about Slavic courses or choosing a major or minor in Russian and East European Studies!</div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="fulbright-grantees.jpg"/><h4>Slavic Students Win Fulbright Awards</h4><div class="news-date">September 7, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Several Slavic majors, minors and students of Polish were Fulbright Award Finalists in spring 2018, including Rachel Moss (Theatre), Jordan Todes (Earth Science), and Anna Holubecki (Neuroscience).  All  three studied Polish with Slavic Department Professor Kinga Kosmala, and are now conducting research in Poland.  Rachel, Anna and Jordan are shown here in Warsaw during their Fulbright orientation.  Slavic major and Fulbright winner Aleks Kajmakoski is studying alternative medicine in Macedonia.  Congratulations!</div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../../../images/digital-sign-slides/cuisin-in-exile.jpg"/><h4>Slavic Department Grad Student Translates New Book</h4><div class="news-date">September 5, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><p>Slavic Graduate student Thomas Feerick co-translated<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Cuisine-Exile-Alexander-Genis/dp/1618117300"><strong><em>Russian Cuisine in Exile</em></strong></a>, which was released <span></span><span data-term="goog_337867117">November 18, 2018.</span></p> <p>The book shares the beloved essays of Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis, originally written in the mid-1980s, in English, with delightful commentaries.  The essays describe everyday life and the relationship of Russian immigrants with Russian cuisine.</p> <p>Congratulations, Thomas!</p></div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../../../images/tony-and-tom.jpg"/><h4>Slavic Grad Students Tony Topoleski and Thomas Feerick Complete Summer Studies in Russia</h4><div class="news-date">September 4, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Anthony Topoleski (4th year, right) was one of 24 PhD students from Northwestern, U of C and UIC to receive the 2018 Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development Program award.  His topic is <em>Developing Reality: Nature, Technology, and the Soviet State in Russian Metarealist Poetry</em>.  For this project, Tony spent time doing research this summer in Berlin and St. Petersburg. Thomas Feerick (2nd year, left) attended <span>Moscow University in the American Councils for International Education Summer 2018 Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP). He received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in addition to a Travel and Language Study Grant from the Irwin and Vivian M. Weil Fund.</span></div></article><article class="news"><img alt="" src="dostoevskii-book-image.jpg"/><h4>NU PhDs Publish Dostoevskii Book</h4><div class="news-date">September 1, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Katia Bowers and Connor Doak (Northwestern Slavic Department PhDs) joined with Kate Holland as editors of the new book, <a href="https://www.academicstudiespress.com/forthcoming/a-dostoevsky-companion?rq=Holland"><em>A Dostoevskii Companion</em></a>.  The book features contributions from our own faculty members Susan McReynolds and Gary Saul Morson!   Academic Studies Press notes that this work "contains a collection of documents from Dostoevskii’s own time (excerpts from his letters, his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevskii from the contemporary academy.  [It] equips readers with a deeper understanding of Dostoevskii’s world and his writing, offering new paths and directions for interpreting his writing."</div></article><h3 id="June">June</h3><article class="news"><img alt="" src="../../../images/people/john-and-david-redo.jpg"/><h4>Presentation by Former Ambassador to Georgia and Georgian Ambassador</h4><div class="news-date">June 7, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><p>On May 14th, Northwestern's Ambassador in Residence, former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly, and Georgian Ambassador to the U.S., David Bakradze, dicussed Russian interference in Georgia and neighboring countries.  U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) shared her perspective via video.  Jordan Gans-Morse, Assistant Professor in Political Science, moderated the panel.  This event was cosponsored by Political Science (2018 Barry Farrell Lecture), and Slavic Languages and Literatures.</p> <p>A recording of the panel can be viewed <a href="https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=879ac43f-9718-4db1-8184-a8e0015a96ff">here</a>.</p></div></article><h3 id="May">May</h3><article class="news"><h4>NU Ph.D. Alum Wins Man Booker Prize for her Translation</h4><div class="news-date">May 22, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><h1>Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (left) and her translator, Jennifer Croft (right), won the <a href="https://publishingperspectives.com/2018/05/interview-man-booker-international-winners-olga-tokarczuk-jennifer-croft-flights/">Man Booker International Prize for “Flights,”</a> a philosophical rumination on modern-day travel. Jennifer received her PhD in Comp Lit/Slavic at Northwestern. Congratulations, Jennifer!</h1></div></article><h3 id="April">April</h3><article class="news"><h4>Congratulations to Clare Cavanagh and Saul Morson on Recent Awards</h4><div class="news-date">April 30, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><p>In March 2018, Professor Clare Cavanagh received the prestigious <a href="../../../documents/literature-awards-press-release.pdf">Arts and Letters Award in Literature</a> from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which honors established and emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  Cavanagh was one of eight authors selected this year.  As noted on the Northwestern University website, Cavanagh has translated, or co-translated, 17 volumes of poetry and prose by Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, Ryszard Krynicki and other poets.  She is now working on an authorized biography of another Nobel Prize winner, poet Czesław Miłosz.  <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/april/northwestern-professor-and-renowned-translator-wins-prestigious-literary-award/">Read the whole story</a> on the Northwestern website!</p> <p>Professor Saul Morson recently won the <a href="http://dkef.org/kep.html">Kohl Education Prize</a> jointly with NU President Morty Schapiro.  Also he won the Sidney Award for Best Long-Form Essays of 2017 for his article, <a href="https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/10/solzhenitsyns-cathedrals-8955">"Solzhenitsyn's Cathedrals."</a></p> <p>In the NY Times (12.25.17), David Brooks writes:  Gary Saul Morson’s essay “<a href="https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/10/solzhenitsyns-cathedrals-8955">Solzhenitsyn’s Cathedrals</a>” in The New Criterion takes us back to one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Morson shows how spiritually ambitious Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was. “Once you give up survival at any price, ‘then imprisonment begins to transform your former character in astonishing ways,’” Morson writes, quoting Solzhenitsyn. It teaches friendship. You learn the most valuable thing is “the development of the soul.” And so Solzhenitsyn concluded, “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life.”</p></div></article><article class="news"><h4>Dead Souls Club Meets on Tuesday Evenings</h4><div class="news-date">April 5, 2018</div><div class="news-description">Fans of Russian Literature: The "Dead Souls Society" meets on Tuesdays at 6pm in the foyer just outside Kresge Hall 3305 (Slavic Department). The club is open to all students interested in meeting with Professor Saul Morson to discuss short works of Russian Literature. For more information, contact: deadsoulsnu@gmail.com</div></article><h3 id="March">March</h3><article class="news"><h4>Congratulations to Clare Cavanagh on New Translations</h4><div class="news-date">March 1, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Slavic Department Chair Clare Cavanagh received praise for her translation of </span><span class="s2">Slight Exaggeration</span><span class="s1"> by Adam Zagajewski.  The book was reviewed  in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/books/review/slight-exaggeration-adam-zagajewski.html"><span class="s3">The New York Times on July 19, 2017</span></a>.  Zagajewski's book was first published in Polish in 2011.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In the review, Daisy Fried quotes Zagajewski: “A good definition of poetry … a slight exaggeration, until we make ourselves at home in it. Then it becomes the truth. But when we leave it again — since permanent residence is impossible  — it becomes once more a slight exaggeration.”  Fried notes that readers of the poems will recognize Zagajewski's preoccupation with Lvov, "a city lost to his parents and their friends after Poland ceded it to the Soviet Ukraine after WWII."  </span><span class="s2">Slight Exaggeration</span><span class="s1"> was also featured in the Briefly Noted section of the June 5 and 12 issues of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-trouble-with-reality-slight-exaggeration-the-impossible-fairy-tale-and-there-are-more-beautiful-things-than-beyonce"><span class="s3">The New Yorker.</span></a></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Professor Cavanagh's other new book of translated Polish poems is <a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/author/clare-cavanagh/"><span class="s3">Magnetic Point: Selected Poems, 1968-2014. Poetry by Ryszard Krynicki</span></a>.  Born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp in Austria, Krynicki is one of the greatest poets of postwar Poland.</span></p></div></article><h3 id="January">January</h3><article class="news"><h4>Thank you, Irwin Weil!</h4><div class="news-date">January 10, 2018</div><div class="news-description"><p>We thank Professor Emeritus Irwin Weil for his recent generous gift to the Irwin Weil Fund for Russian and Slavic Studies, which he established in 2000.  The new name of the Fund will be The Irwin and Vivian M. Weil Fund, which supports a wide range of activities designed to enhance undergraduate and graduate education in Slavic at Northwestern. </p> <p>We are pleased to announce a new grant, the<span> </span><strong>Irwin and Vivian M. Weil Travel and Language Study Grant for undergraduate and graduate studies</strong>.  To apply for this grant, students should complete and submit<span> </span><a href="http://www.slavic.northwestern.edu/documents/weil-application.pdf">this application</a><span> </span>to the department, along with a budget and proof of acceptance into a language study program (or presentation at a conference).  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.</p> <p>Professor Weil is a founder of the American Council of Teachers of Russian.  He earned his PhD at Harvard, where he taught before coming to teach at Northwestern University in 1966.  By then, he had already been travelling and working in the USSR for six years, laying a foundation for his future work in USA-USSR/Russia relations. He participated in many Soviet, later Russian, projects to bring public attention to Russian culture and its relations with American culture, including a TV competition in knowledge of world literature, between Soviet and American high school students.  In 2004, with his Russian counterpart, Professor Marina Kaul, Weil established an American Studies Center at the Russian State University for the Humanities, which he continues to visit, meeting with colleagues and students.  Professor Weil also studied Russian music in the context of Russian culture, and for many years taught a unique course in the Slavic Department—Folklore, Music, Poetry—with Dr. Natalia Lyashenko of the Northwestern University Music School. </p> <p>Weil's book,<span> </span><em>From the Cincinnati Reds to the Moscow Reds: The Memoirs of Irwin Weil</em>, earned a positive review in Russian via the<span> </span><a href="http://www.ng.ru/non-fiction/2016-10-27/7_862_russians.html" title="book link">Independent Newspaper</a>, written by Vladimir Kataev.  The book was published in English in May 2015.</p></div></article> </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> </body> </html>