Recent News
On Friday, June 9th the Slavic department held our convocation ceremony in Parrington Hall, Room 309. We wish to extend our most heartful congratulations to the graduating class of 2017.
BA: Alexandra Yacalis Rachel Bryan James Land Natasha Ghias Iryna Serhiychuk Yuxi Wei
MA: Alison Knight Nathan Marks
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On June 1 and 2, Eugene Lemcio (Лемцьо), Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University and Co-Founder of the UW Ukrainian Endowment, participated in a workshop organized by the UW’s International Policy Institute in the Jackson School of International Studies and co-sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Its aim was to begin instructing foreign policy practitioners from the State Department in Washington, DC about the interface between religion and politics in... Read more
Congrats to Ph.D. student Veronica Muskheli who was selected as the Arts and Humanities candidate to recieve the 2017-18 Graduate School Presidential Fellowship. This award provides support for one quarter to assist Ph.D. candidates in the final stages of writing and completing their dissertation. Veronica's dissertation presents research and the new and little studied theme of mother daughter relationships in post-Soviet Russian literature from the point of view of feminist narratology.... Read more
The Consulate General of Russia in Seattle is pleased to inform thatOmsk State Technical University welcomes international students to attend the Russian Language Country Studies Summer School. The University provides a unique opportunity for students to study the Russian language and learn more about Siberian life and culture during their summer vacations. the University provides 50... Read more
The Seagull Project Ensemble will be performing a staged reading of the play Sweet Lika at ACT in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, June 6th. Sweet Lika is a two-act play based on the correspondence between Anton Chekhov and Lidia (“Lika”) Mizinova. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased online from ACT: http://www.acttheatre.org/Tickets/... Read more
The Russian Architecture event that was held at the Odegaard Library on May 6th received a nice write up in Russia Behind the Headlines, an English-language news website in Russia.
https://www.rbth.com/special_projects/discovering_russia_1/2017/05/12/russian-architecture-at-the-end-of-the-earth-draws-american-... Read more
We are please to announce that we will be offering a new course this Fall. Incoming Fulbright Scholar, Justyna Budzik will be teaching POLSH 320. "People Places and Events: Images of Poland in Comtemporary Polish Photography". This course will be offered Mondays and Wednesdays in Padeford A216 from 2:30-4:20. This is a great opportunity to explore the culture of modern Poland through breathtaking images.
The Russian Film club will be screening and discussing the movie "20 Days Without War" today at 5pm in Savery 130. Hope you can join us
The Slavic Department is thrilled to announce a new class to be offered in fall 2017. "Russian Revolutions: Film" will be offered T & Th from 2:30-4:20. The class will be taught by our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich. https://slavic.washington.edu/people/sasha-senderovich Registration begins May 5th
The UW Slavic Languages and Literatures department is pleased to announce that Sasha Senderovich will be joining the ranks of our faculty in Autumn 2017. His appointment will be split between the Slavic Department and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
Before joining the University of Washington, Sasha was an Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, a Mellon... Read more