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Cupcakes in the Quad will return for its second year at UW Dawg Daze on Tuesday, September 24th!
Incoming students will be able to learn more about course and program offerings at the Slavic Department, including the Global Literary Studies program and various language tracks, while mingling with other students and faculty. There will be imported candies and cupcakes for all to enjoy!… Read more
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington invites applications to its M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Slavic Literature and Slavic Linguistics starting in Fall, 2025.
We seek students who have had at least four years of Russian language training and other related coursework (although those with less will still be considered). Students who took the maximum number of years of any of the other Slavic languages offered at their undergraduate… Read more
RSVP is required. Register here.
Event date and location: Sunday, November 3rd at 5:00 p.m in the Allen Library Auditorium.
The Ukrainian Students United Club at the University of Washington, the Ukrainian Association of Washington State, and the Lovage Book Club invite you to a special presentation and discussion… Read more
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington condemns the shameless and brutal Russian invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine. As a department we teach and conduct research on both Russian and Ukrainian languages, literatures, and cultures, and have personal and professional ties to both nations. We express our solidarity with Ukraine and its democratically-elected government, and with people throughout eastern Europe, including Russia, who oppose the… Read more
The University of Washington – University of Ljubljana Scholars Exchange Committee invites applications from UW faculty, other academic personnel, and senior graduate students (PhD candidates) to visit the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) during the 2025 calendar year. Academic visitors are expected to give lectures, interact with Slovene students, and collaborate with Slovene faculty colleagues in their field of specialization. The visit must be… Read more
Happening September 18–27, 2024, Dawg Daze offers more than 500 events hosted by student organizations and UW departments. Kick off the fall quarter and celebrate a return to campus with these can’t-miss recommendations from the College of Arts & Sciences!
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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… Read more
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in Denny Hall 159.
Link to event details on the Slavic Department Calendar
From corpora available for purchase to natural language processing models, to out-of-the-box tools for text analysis, scholars working with English enjoy many advantages. The comparatively limited market for digitized corpora with reasonable metadata in languages… Read more
From the UW Daily article, "Landless no more: Polish poet Jerzy Jarniewicz comes to campus to discuss new book," published on April 12, 2024.
“The sun was fulfilling, the finger nails dug into the ground, and the river, in defiance, was no longer a border.”
This is one of the many thought provoking lines of Jerzy Jarniewicz’s poetry collection. The… Read more
The Global Literary Studies program was recently featured in a Perspectives article written by Nancy Joseph.
You can read the article here: Exploring Connections… Read more