Come curious. Leave inspired. For those near and far, we invite you to end the year with us through a range of events, performances, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. As you begin to shape your December plans, dont miss the inspiring events still to come this November. In addition,sign up to receive a monthly notice when...Featured
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Richard Balthazar (M.A., Slavic Linguistics, 1966) writes:
After 5 years of research and artwork, in 2025 I completed a book on the Aztec ceremonial calendar entitled "Tonalpohualli, The Aztec Count of Days" available for free download. Presenting and comparing the 20 "trecenas" from 6 historical "tonalamatls" (books of days) along with divinatory, mythological, and iconographic commentaries, the book is the only comprehensive …
John Johnson (B.A., Russian, 1995) writes:
After 24 years as a diplomat in six different countries I have finally had the opportunity to use the Russian that I worked so hard to learn at UW. As the acting Russian language spokesperson for the State Department (based in Brussels) my team and I are responsible for in-language policy messaging to Russians in country and the diaspora around the world. It's been an interesting time to fill that role. …
Artur Rosman will publish his translation of Tischner's The Philosophy of Drama on September 1st through the University of Notre Dame Press.
Rosman is associate research professor at the University of Notre Dame and editor-in-chief of Church Life Journal. During both his grad and undergrad years at the UW (triple-dawg!), Rosman took multiple classes with Professors Crnkovic, Diment, and Dziwirek, graduating with a minor in Slavic in 2001. He also served on…
Peter Lippman, Seattle’s long-time peace activist and a graduate of our UW REECAS Program, published a book Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina Hardcover (2019). For more on this fascinating work see: https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/author/peter-lippman/.
Two UW academics now are on the selective advisory Editorial Committee of one of the most prominent Russian annuals in the Humanities. Prof. Emeritus Daniel Waugh (History, Slavic, and JSIS) has recently accepted an invitation to join the board of Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury (Works of the Division of Early Russian Literature), published by the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pushkin House in St. Petersburg.
Prof. Waugh's appointment follows…
Marina Dunaravich realized that "starting a scholarship in honor of my grandfather and brother would allow me not only a path to honor them, but also a way to foster some of the things they loved.“
Media credit: Corinne Thrash
When Marina Dunaravich (BA, 2009) left Russia at age 10 with her mother, she focused on acclimating to her new life in the United States. Her connection with her Russian language and culture was a casualty.
“It was an identity shift,” Marina…
This week at the UW, attend the first art graduation exhibition, a talk entitled Filming Ethnographic Textures: Representing the Atmospheric Politics of Peruvian Cultural Practices, and more.Featured on UW News
