Summer 2017

Newsletter Letter from Chair Katarzyna Dziwirek

promise to raise UW’s profile in designed to develop Americans' all areas of his expertise. We are knowledge of foreign cultures very happy to welcome Prof. and languages by supporting Senderovich to our department! teaching assistantships in over 30 languages at hundreds of U.S. In the fall we will also be institutions of higher education.” joined by a Polish Studies This is the first year that Fulbright Lecturer Dr. Justyna Ukrainian is offered through the Budzik. Dr. Budzik is an program and the decision is still Assistant Professor in the pending, but we are hopeful! Department of Film and Media Please check our website for Studies at the University of news regarding Ukrainian, and Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She again please help spread the will be with us during fall and word about this possibility. winter quarters of AY 2017/18. Dear Friends of the Slavic In the fall she will teach People, Department, Places and Actions: Poland and Eastern Europe in Contents We have some exciting Contemporary Polish personnel news to share. Starting Photography. Please help spread 1-2 Letter from the Chair on July 1, 2017 our faculty will the word about this unique, once be joined by a new Assistant in a lifetime opportunity: we Professor, Prof. Sasha have never before offered a 2-3 UW Polish Studies Senderovich. Sasha comes to us course on photography! 3-5 Student News from University of Colorado, We are also hoping that we Boulder. He is a literature 4-5 Ukrainian Studies specialist focusing on Russian- will be awarded an FLTA to Jewish issues and his teach Ukrainian language next 7-8 Faculty News appointment will be split academic year. To quote the 9-11 News from You between Slavic and Jewish Fulbright website: “The Fulbright Foreign Language Studies. Prof. Senderovich is an 12 Gifts innovative young scholar and a Teaching Assistant Program dynamic teacher, whose high (FLTA) is sponsored by the 13 Support public profile and lively United States Department of engagement with the community State’s Bureau of Educational in both talks and national and Cultural Affairs (ECA). The newspapers and magazines Fulbright FLTA Program is

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And in one last bit of personnel news, I agreed to serve UW POLISH another 5-year term as chair of the department, so you can STUDIES expect more letters from me!  -Krystyna Untersteiner In other news, we are still In February, the UW PSEC co-sponsored an Exhibit and a planning to celebrate the 50th Lecture/Panel Discussion, They anniversary of the department. Please mark the date: May 11 Risked Their Lives: Poles who 2018! Our plans had to be scaled Saved Jews During the Holocaust. The exhibit was on back somewhat, as we did not about what modern American display from February 4 to 27 at receive funding from the writers have found—and lost— the Allen Library North Lobby. Simpson Center for the in post-war Polish poetry in On February 15, guests gathered Humanities. Currently we are translation. at the Simpson Center for an thinking of a keynote speaker, informal reception which was reception, and tree planting As it is the end of the year, we followed by a panel discussion ceremony, where consuls or have some awards to announce: with Lila Cohen, Regional community leaders from Slavic Alison Knight and Nathan Director of the American Jewish countries would plant trees Marks received Best Student of Committee and Mariusz representing their countries. By Polish Awards from the Polish Brymora, Consul General of the the way, during the original 1932 Women’s Club. This year Republic of Poland in LA. International Grove planting, Russian General Consul Nicolas Bogoiavlensky (appointed before the Russian Revolution and thus representing tsarist Russia!) planted a birch tree and the consul for Czecho-Slovakia, Otto Strizek, planted a linden. Neither of these trees survived. marked the twentieth After the panel discussion, anniversary of the Award. We Thanks to Guntis Schmidchens attendees moved to the Library for these fun facts! We will keep congratulate Alison and Nathan for the official opening of the and thank the Ladies for you posted as the plans Exhibit. At the ceremony, we crystalize. continuing this tradition of were honored by the presence of rewarding our students for their I hope everyone reading this Richard Parasol, a Holocaust has a relaxing and restful hard work and achievements. survivor who shared his personal summer. Please stay in touch story of rescue by a Polish family with us, as always. The UW PSEC awarded a in Czestochowa, Poland. Student Scholarship to Kevin

In May, Prof. Clare Cavanagh, an acclaimed translator of contemporary Polish poetry, gave a fascinating and engaging lecture entitled The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation, talking

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Aslett, PhD student in Political Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Science, and a student of Polish, STUDENT NEWS and Serbian in U.S. College who is spending this summer in Classrooms". Poland gathering materials for The talk addressed results of his thesis. the online survey that they Winter and Spring Colloquia We are pleased to conducted among teachers of Summary by Nathan Marks announce that during Fall and Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Friday, May 19th Winter quarters of AY 2017/18, and Serbian in U.S. college Heekyoung Cho, an we will be hosting a Fulbright classrooms between December Assistant Professor in the Lecturer from Poland, 19, 2016, and January 16, 2017. Department of Asian Languages The results present a sketch of and Literatures and Adjunct exactly how the teachers – and Assistant Professor at the only to a certain extent their Department of Slavic Languages students, too – deal with the & Literatures at the University of situation of four-languages-in- Washington gave a talk titled one-class-period. "Literature as a Translational Friday, February 24th Process: Translation and the Katarzyna Dziwirek, Formation of Modern Dr. Joanna Budzik. Dr. Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures". Budzik’s stay at the UW is a Languages and Literatures gave This talk discussed the result of cooperation between a talk titled "Touching Matters: meanings and functions that US-Poland Fulbright Metaphorical Extensions of translation generated for modern Commission, UW PSEC and dotknąć and touch". national literatures during their REECAS. During the fall The talked addressed formative period to reconsider quarter, Dr. Budzik will be metaphorical extensions of the literature as part of a dynamic teaching a course “People, places Polish and English verbs dotknąć translational process of and events: Images of Poland and touch. These extensions negotiating foreign values. By and Eastern Europe in concern emotions and well-being examining the triadic literary and Contemporary Polish of people and places. They cultural relations among Russia, Photography”. instantiate the conceptual Japan, and colonial Korea, Cho Our Endowment Fund metaphor of affecting is highlights translation as a radical reached $265,000 this year. If touching, but ways in which they and ineradicable part—not you would like to make it richer, do so depend on the lexical merely a catalyst or please go to: semantics of the verbs in complement—of modern https://www.washington.edu/giv question and whether the agent is national literature. Cho also ing/make-a-gift/ and type human or not. Based on the data emphasizes a shared sensibility “Polish” in the Search. Thank presented in the paper Katarzyna and literary experience in East you! Dziękujemy! gave, the inclusion of hurting is Asia, which referred to Russia as touching in the list of “touch” a significant other in the metaphors seems warranted. formation of its own modern Friday, February 10th literatures, and thus rethinks the Slavic Ph.D. student Cyrus way modern literature developed Rogers gave a talk titled "Thy in Korea and East Asia. Private Leviathan: The Friday, April 21st Sanctification of Space in Bojan Belić gave a talk titled Dolene and Hemingway". "The Teachers Have Spoken:

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time.” Dr. Aoki reminded us all Friday, January 6th to take time to enjoy life and Slavic Masters student Nathan SLAVIC each other’s company. Don’t Marks gave a talked titled rush through experiences. The "Speaking Southern: Pride, CONVOCATION second path was decidedly older, Prejudice and Prestige". 2017 and was introduced with an Old Linguistic attituded on Church Slavonic quote: “I fell Eloise Boyle Southern Russian features was - into the hole I myself dug.” The discussed in this talk. The message here is to practice features that were searched and humility. Know yourself Bachelors of Arts examined for degree of prestige honestly. The third path was Rachel Bryan were: a) having a voiced velar actually a stroll down the korzo – Natasha (Sabzpari) Ghias fricative rather than the voiced in cities of the former James Land velar stop; b) exhibiting Yugoslavia it is customary to Iryna Serhiychuk shokanye. Based on the data stroll the main shopping area on Yuxi Wei collection and analysis, it can be a warm spring or summer’s Alexandra Yacalis demonstrated, that based on the night. Michele’s particular korzo forums, the linguistic features was in the middle of Skopje, Masters of Arts examined can be determined to Macedonia, and she recounted a Alison Knight carry low prestige as well as friend who was overjoyed with Nathan Marks cause a certain degree of success and was the embodiment linguistic discrimination leading of excellence. Doctor of Philosophy speakers to abandon these Matt Boyd features.

The annual Slavic Veronica Muskheli wins Department Convocation Graduate School award ceremony took place in the

Parrington Forum on Friday, In May Slavic Ph.D. student, June 9, where we celebrated the Veronica Muskheli was members of our Class of 2017. announced as the winner of the This year’s ceremony was “Graduate School Presidential notable for the warm, insightful Dissertation Fellowship”. This comments made by faculty about award provides a 3 month the award winners and graduates stipend for Ph.D. students to in attendance. Our chair, Prof. allow them time to work on Katarzyna Dziwirek, welcomed writing their dissertation. us as the Master of Ceremonies, Veronica plans to use the stipend and introduced our keynote The keynote address was this summer to make progress speaker, Doctor Michele followed by a presentation of her preliminary titled work Anciaux Aoki (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. departmental awards. “Matrilineal Narratives: Mother- Aoki’s remarks took the students Daughter Stories in and their guests down three Contemporary Russian Slavic paths. The first was Literatuere”. Please join the illuminated by the South Slavic department in congratulating her phrase, “ima vreme” – “there’s on this well-deserved honor!

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Faculty members then renditions of traditional introduced our attending Ukrainian carols (including the graduates, recounting their famous Shchedryk/Carol of the achievements within the Bells), Ukrainian versions of department. The Slavic American carols, as well as her Department congratulates the own original compositions. Class of 2017 on your Blessing also shared her remarkable achievements and experiences of Ukraine and its wishes you the best of luck in traditions. your future endeavors. Images of Putin in War Debris

Dr. Kat Dziwirek greeting students and UKRAINIAN their families STUDIES The award for Outstanding 1st-Year Russian Student was -Laada Bilakiuk presented by Dr. Valentina Ukrainian Christmas Zaitseva to Levi Sy. Our Traditions: Bria Blessing Outstanding 2nd-Year Russian Concert & Discussion Student, Huanchong “Aleksey” On Saturday, December 17, Wang, presented Dr. Zaitseva 2016, the University of with a beautiful hand drawn Washington hosted a print. The Outstanding Polish performance by Bria Blessing in students of the year, honored by Kane Hall, organized with the the Polish Women’s Club, are Ukrainian Association of Alison Knight and Nathan Washington State. Marks. Jake Hansen is doubly distinguished, as both our Outstanding Undergraduate On April 24, 2017, Ukrainian Student of the year and as a 2017 artists Daria Marchenko and ACTR Russian Scholar Daniel Green presented a Laureate. Roxanne Garcia and lecture on the “Five Primary Gautham Velchuru wrote this Elements of War or the year’s best Undergraduate Evolution of Dictatorship” at the papers. Roxanne’s was entitled Blessing was born in Texas, then UW Allen Library Auditorium. “Technology as an Underworld” moved with her family for Their talk was accompanied by and Gautham’s paper was missionary work to Ukraine in striking images of a series of “Terms of Address in Spanish.” 1992, when she was 13. She now artworks depicting Putin and Professor Dziwirek announced lives permanently in Lviv. She war, composed of gun shells that Sarah Skelec won this gained recognition as a singer from the war zone in Eastern year’s Vadim Pahn Scholarship. and musician through Ukraine's Ukraine, splinters of bombs and The best Graduate paper award The Voice competition (Holos rockets, gold, bronze, steel, was presented to Will Zuercher Kraiiny) in 2014. Blessing came banknotes, optical glasses, and for his paper, “Technology to UW as part of her North military shoulder boards, as well Loanwords and Assigned American Tour, “Christmas with as acrylic and oil paints. The Gender in Russian and Slovene” Bria,” and performed original

5 Slavic News Summer 2017 artists use this series of works as with the OSCE Project delivered a public lecture on the a vehicle for delving into Coordinator in Ukraine. sculptor Francesco Robba, who historical processes such as the created remarkable public and evolution of dictatorships and sacred art in the Slovene lands the causes of war. SLOVENIA & between 1720 and 1755. Graduate Degree in Ukrainian According to Prof. Klemenčič, Studies completed SLOVENE AT UW has one of North America’s Chris Collison received his UW strongest programs in Italian Master’s degree in International renaissance and baroque art, and Studies in June 2017, with a -Michael Biggins his work with his UW colleagues thesis has inspired him to pursue titled: further art history collaboration We have an endowment! involving Ljubljana and the UW The UW Endowment for Rome Center. Slovene Studies, based out of UW scholars visiting the Slavic Department and with Ljubljana on the exchange in an initial principal balance of 2017 include Prof. Ping Wang $140,000, is now producing (Asian Languages and almost $6,000 per year in usable Literatures), Dr. Katie revenue to go in perpetuity in Dobkowski (Biology) and Prof. “Ukraine’s Two Maidans: How support of UW's contribution to Bruce Burgett (UW Bothell Competition Between the the UW-University of Ljubljana Interdisciplinary Arts and Grassroots and the Political Scholars Exchange. As the Opposition During the Sciences). endowment's principal balance Euromaidan Revolution Paved As an added benefit of his grows with new contributions the Way for a New Civic visit to UW, Prof. Klemenčič from donors, we will be able to Culture.” His thesis was based also helped establish a conduit expand the UW-Ljubljana on his on-the-ground between the Slovene National exchange, support one or more observations of the Euromaidan Gallery and Modern Gallery and UW students per year attending protests as they unfolded, the UW Libraries to fill gaps in summer intensive Slovene coupled with interviews and UW’s holdings of Slovene art further research into civic language courses in Ljubljana or history albums, monographs and activism in Ukraine. Mr. conducting original research in journals. Keep an eye out as Collison argues that ultimately there, and support other aspects these and other UW Slavic the Euromaidan movement can of Slovene studies at UW. studies collections fill out in the be viewed as civil society’s Please consider contributing to months ahead. rejection of party politics and as the endowment! a roadmap for a new civic culture The 2016-2017 academic So far, this year's visitors to that seeks to redefine its year at UW included a full UW on the UW-Ljubljana relationship with the state. Mr. sequence of introductory and Scholars Exchange include Prof. Collison’s thesis was awarded intermediate Slovene language Matej Klemenčič (U. of the Daniel C. Waugh Prize for courses and saw outstanding Ljubljana Department of Art the best Ellison Center master’s achievement in language History), a specialist in Slovene thesis. Beginning this summer, learning by UW’s newest and Italian baroque art who Mr. Collison will be interning generation of young Slovenists. during his 3-week visit to UW

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Finally, this past March the right across the street from the Department’s affiliate faculty Right now I am also starting Horse Track and the Crop Farm, member Michael Biggins was to edit a volume on ‘H.G. Wells then one has never fallen asleep and All Things Russian,’ which I elected president of the Society to the tune of the never‐ready‐ am hoping to complete by the for Slovene Studies (SSS), an to‐doze frogs; they hide in the association of nearly 300 end of next academic year. Still working on my book on bamboo springing from the scholars, students and members Marc Chagall and the Vitebsk canal bordering the farm. In of the interested public originally School of Jewish Painters, where 2016, I was honored to be founded in 1973 as an affiliate of much of the work is to be done invited by Hokkaido University’s the Association for Slavic, East during the sabbatical I am Slavic‐Eurasian Research Center European and Eurasian Studies anticipating in 2018-9. (SRC) to spend two months in (ASEEES). During the three- Sapporo as a foreign visiting year term of office (2017-2020), Principal Lecturer Bojan scholar, living and working there He looks forward to working Belić between June 15th and August with SSS colleagues to had an 15th. I saw the attacking crows, strengthen support for Slovene essay I heard the hidden frogs, and I studies in North America and at about his UW. loved it all. Before my 2016 trip summer to Sapporo, I had previously in visited the city in early February Faculty News Sapporo of 2015. I heard talks on Slovak published in “Slavic-Eurasian and Kashubian matters and

Research News” It is reprinted delivered a talk of my own at the Prof. Galya Diment shared below. the following news “I am SRC; I went to the Sapporo Snow chairing Crows, Frogs, and I: A Festival; and I dined in the the Summer in Sapporo Bojan famous Sapporo Biergarten committee Belić (University of restaurant. My second visit was for the Washington, USA/Foreign a chance to experience Sapporo USC Fellow, 2016) If one has never in the summer. On the first day I Book visited Sapporo in mid‐June, went to work, poplar fluff Prizes in welcomed me to a beautiful Slavic then one has never witnessed Studies, rows and piles of garbage bags campus. Those were the same with the prizes to be presented at left by orderly humans poplars that would, as much as the ASEEES conference in continuously being attacked by they could, protect me from Chicago in November, so am disorderly crows; they late‐June showers and July’s going through close to 40 books sometimes even turn their merciless sun. On that same day this summer. beaks and claws on the orderly I also walked by Ono Pond, The volume I guest edited on humans themselves. And if one covered in lotus, delightedly ‘Katherine Mansfield and has never had the chance to live inviting children with their Russia’ for Edinburgh grandparents, college students University Press is coming out in in mid‐June Sapporo early September, and almost all immediately to the north of the with their notebooks, and finishing touches are about done. Hokkaido University campus, random tourists with their cameras. And then eventually,

7 Slavic News Summer 2017 as I entered the SRC, I ran into— able to accomplish in those two Kyoto University under the title of all people—Osuga‐san, with months at the SRC, I became of “Where Once There Was whom I had previously been convinced that the Foreign Serbo‐Croatian: A proliferation communicating by mail and Visitors Fellowship Program is of language names in what used email. Her helping me with an extremely Almost like on top to be the Socialist Federal everything continued, only now of the world. My friend’s bicycle Republic of Yugoslavia.” The in person. In a few short days, I is now mine! No.24 April 2017 time spent in Japan also allowed met most of the SRC faculty, as 16 well‐conceived arrangement me once again to enjoy the well as the SRC General Office for foreign scholars interested in company of Dr. Nagayo of personnel. In addition to being studies of the former Soviet and Tokyo’s Waseda University, with ready to accommodate all of my East European countries to whom I have been in close whims, Tagata‐san and spend time in Sapporo, enabling contact ever since I first visited Nakajima‐san were also so kind them to dedicate their attention Japan in 2014. His wise, as to accompany Dr. Nomachi to various research projects, as boundless, generous advice is and me to the July 30th well as avail themselves of the something I appreciate most Hokkaido Nippon‐Ham Fighters close proximity of Japanese sincerely. I similarly reconnected baseball game. Already, after scholars with similar interests. with Dr. Mitani of the University those few short days, I knew Within the SRC’s comfortable of Tokyo and Dr. Hashimoto of that leaving it all behind in mid‐ confines, I enjoyed my Hokkaido University. All of this August would not be easy, as continuing work on language‐ was indeed possible thanks to indeed it wasn’t. I came to the related issues of the Bunyev the SRC’s Foreign Visitors SRC with the plan of continuing ethnolinguistic community of Fellowship Program. If one has to collaborate even more closely northern Serbia. This resulted in not had a chance to experience with my colleague, Dr. Nomachi, my delivering a paper entitled Sapporo in the summer, then on various issues related to both “Bunyev among Bunyevs: The one has not seen the attacking Slavic majority and Slavic 5W1H of the Bunyev Language crows and heard the hidden minority languages. During my Question” at the Symposium. At frogs the way I have. If one has two‐month tenure, Dr. Nomachi the same event, I also delivered never come to the oh‐so‐vibrant and I were honored to visit the a paper, “Standard Language Sapporo, the way I did in the esteemed Dr. Nagayo at Waseda Ideology without a Standard? summer of 2016, then one has University in Tokyo, deliver talks The Varying Views of the not had the pleasure of getting at Kyoto University on the latest Standard (Serbian) Language in to know many Sapporoans; they developments regarding what Present‐Day Serbia,” which accept with open minds. My used to be the Serbo‐Croatian came out of my ongoing friendships with Koji‐san, Shun‐ language, and welcome to examination of the general san, and Yusuke‐san continue to Sapporo renowned scholars notion of standard language and grow. If one has not yet from Europe, North America, the particular notion of standard considered the possibilities that New Zealand, and Japan, who Serbian language. I was also able the SRC’s Foreign Visitors participated in the international to expand on my Fellowship Program has to offer, symposium, “Standard anthropophilosophical notion of then one should certainly Language Ideology in the Slavic glottocommunicability as I consider them soon. Lands.” With all the work I was prepared to deliver a talk at

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NEWS FROM YOU Roy Chan (BA 2002) writes “I love, fringed jackets, Op art, lava beyond grateful to have landed this continue to put my Russian lamps, light shows, 45 RPMs, awesome position. I have been on language skills to good use. sparklers, brownies topped with the job for a month now and I have Recently, I presented a work in green stuff (that looked ‘rural’ part of my rural advocacy progress at the Association for suspiciously like dyed coconut)— work. I am making connections in Asian Studies annual convention in and hair! Oh, the hair! "Long, the community and actively Toronto in March on the reading, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, looking for referrals. So far, so reception, and interpretation of shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, good.” 19th-century Russian realist fleecy, shining, gleaming, Bob Ewen (Ph.D. 1979) has aesthetics in the People’s Republic streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, this to say.”It has been some time of China. I am making progress, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, since I contributed information to albeit slow, on my second book, a braided, powered, flowered, and this newsletter, so I have quite a bit comparative study of confettied, bangled, tangled, to tell. First, last year several Russian/Soviet and Chinese spangled, and spaghettied." Even alumni, including Kit Adams, John literatures. Just recently, I was dudes who had been bald that Mitchell, and me, Professor named Associate Professor at my morning once again had glorious Emeritus Jam Augerot, and our university (U of Oregon), and will hair for one magical night! If you respective spouses, cruised down be joining the program faculty of missed it—You snooze, you the Danube from Budapest to Comparative Literature starting lose. Like a true Nature’s child, we Bucharest. For us, old friends next fall in addition to my current were born, born to be wild. Stay since the 70s, it was the trip of a duties as a professor in East Asian Cool and Don't Trust Anyone lifetime. The only language along Languages and Literatures. I look Under 40. the river that at least one of us do forward to catching up on much After nearly ten years in the not speak is Hungarian. (Sorry, needed sleep this Summer.” travel and tourism industry Devin Imre!) It was a psychedelic love-in, Connolly (B.A. 2006) accepted a More recently in late Spring, Jim the likes of which may never be job a month ago at a nonprofit in Hoath and I, with spouses, traveled seen again. On April 1, 2017, Bellingham called Domestic to Asia, visiting China, Malaysia, peace-loving flower children from Violence and Sexual Assault and Indonesia. Since Jim’s Father all over the country communed at Services. “My title is Rural taught Economics with the USAID the summit of Rancho Iglesias Advocacy Coordinator and I am on Java in the 60s the days we grapefruit farm to experience Gray responsible for raising awareness spend in Indonesia was a trip down Carpenter Church's (B.A. '77) of DVSAS and improving access to memory lane for Jim. one-and-only, far-out, 60s-themed their services among the rural Other than traveling I am still 60th birthday party. The whole residents of Whatcom County, enjoying serving on the board of groovy scene got down with the where there is a sizeable Russian- the Bulgarian Cultural Heritage sound of Really Classic, a Southern speaking population. I provide Center in Seattle (BCHCS), and California SoCal live band that advocacy-based counseling, legal shamelessly urge any of you still in beat feet to play the gig, and Jack support and assistance with safety the Seattle area to attend any or all and Jackie Kennedy made a guest planning to rural residents of the of our upcoming events.” appearance. Everything there was a county who are affected by In June Sara Garibova (B.A. mind-blower: neon, paisley, peace domestic violence and sexual 2009) completed her Ph.D. in signs, black lights and glow-in-the- assault. Cultural bridge-building is Russian Jewish history at the dark posters, In-N-Out burgers, something I have always loved University of Michigan. In August granny glasses, tie-dye, maxi doing, and now I get to do it once she will begin an appointment as the dresses, IPAs on tap, mini skirts, again as part of my profession. Geoffrey H. Hartman Postdoctoral munchies, love beads, incense, This is exactly the kind of vocation Fellow at ’s strobe lights, go-go boots, free I have been holding out for and I’m

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Fortunoff Vidoe Archive for the old days over beer and returned to now "Russia" and was Holocaust Testimonies. dumplings. surprised at how quickly they had Serge Gregory’s (PhD, 1977) Dieter Schambach has certainly caught on to capitalism. When play Sweet Lika, based on the been a busy alum. He writes to us crossing the Nevskij Prospect in St. correspondence between Anton from Rumson, N.J. “I graduated in Petersburg, once need to take care Chekhov and Lika Mizinova, 1974. I had initially opted for a not to be run down by a Bentley, performed by The Seagull degree in Russian language and Rolls Royce or Jaguar. And yes, Ensemble, premiered at ACT literature to enhance my caviar costs now 90 Euro for shto Theatre in downtown Seattle on professional experience in grammov at my favorite watering June 6th. international shipping. Upon hole - the sidewalk bar of the Corey Krzan has some graduation, I returned to my native gostiniza Evropa.” exciting news. “In May, I Germany after 15 years in the US It’s been a good year for commissioned as an officer in the and immediately got involved in Michael Seraphinoff (Ph.D. 1993) U.S. Navy. I will be serving in the organizing shipment of electronic “I presented a paper at the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) communication equipment for the REECAS Conference at Reed Corps after graduating from exhibition "svijaz" in Sokolniki College this spring on human rights Georgetown Law and passing the Park. Later in 1975, I accepted a violations at the infamous Goli bar next year. This summer, I am totally unexpected offer to Otok island prison camp in the interning with the Military represent an international ocean former Yugoslavia. Then I attended Commissions Defense carrier in Brasil. At the time Brasil an academic workshop with my Organization, where I assist the (I spell it that way deliberately) employer, the International defense team for a detainee conducted large scale bartering Baccalaureate Organization, in currently being held at business with the then USSR. In Cardiff, Wales. This was an Guantanamo Bay detention center. December (!) 1978 I travelled to opportunity to improve my My dog and I will be making the Moscow and then Leningrad, to examiner work in their long drive back to Washington negotiate shipping details with our Macedonian literature program for State to visit family for a few contacts at Morflot. Two weeks of high school seniors and juniors. I weeks in August, then another long 'molosol, beluga' 'krimskoje have worked for them in this drive back to DC, visiting National shampanskoje' and "ocobaja' and program for 20 years now and the Parks all along the way.” 'stolitchnaja' vodka were program has grown from some 20 Sarah Peyton (BA 1984) has a interrupted by tough shipping students to almost 60 today. I enjoy book coming out from Norton negotiations. Back in Rio, I the work, and, as many of you Publishing in September called developed a personal friendship probably know, those Macedonian Your Resonant Self: Guided with two Uranian professors who teenagers can be quite precocious, Meditations and Exercises to lectured at the University of Rio de if not always so well versed in Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Janeiro. Playing chess, drinking ethical considerations.(Given their Healing She will be teaching this vodka at my home allowed me to hand in the results of the recent US materian in St. Petersburg Russia, keep my proficiency in Russian. presidential race.) also in September. Then, the CCCP collapsed and Now I intend to spend most of the Chair of the Russian both my friends were recalled to summer hiking the mountains and Department at Sewanee University their Alma Mater Kiev. The elder, working in my garden here on Mark Preslar (Ph.D. 1993) was in Vladislav sent me a hat for my Whidbey Island.“ St. Petersburg this summer where military hat collection. Under the After graduating from the UW he ran into fellow alum, Tony sweatband it bore his name, and the in 1971 Walter Skya traveled to Qualin (Ph.D. 1995). Both had rank "polkovnik KGB" Japan to further pursue another of brought students to Russia on study 1996 I left Brasil and returned to his passions, Japanese studies. “I abroad programs, mostly in the US. I continue practicing spent the next 10 years in Tokyo, downtown St. Petersburg but also Russian by reading 'Pravda' and studying at the University of Tokyo with side trips to Novgorod and swearing at and getting in for 6 years and also worked in Moscow. The two reminisced about arguments with cab drivers in the Tokyo Head Office of Manhattan. Meanwhile I had Mitsubishi Corporation as a

10 Slavic News Summer 2017 translator for 3 years. I graduated knowledge about the origins and He is the author of Society, from the University of Chicago development of Angkor, died June Economics and Politics in Pre- (Ph.D. in the History Department) 29 in Battambang, . He Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th in 1994. My major publication is was 86. Centuries and the Introduction to Japan's Holy War: The Ideology Bayon: New Perspectives, as well of Radical Shinto Mr. Vickery was born in Billings, as more than 20 chapters in other Ultranationalism” His works are Montana, the son of William T. books, and numerous scholarly now being translated into Russian (Ted) Vickery and Margaret and journalistic articles. including the title above and his Sandilands Vickery. He grew up in essay "The Great European War Maine and graduated Magna Cum Mr. Vickery had held research and the Rise of Radical Laude from the University of positions in Southeast Asian Shinto Ultranationalism in Japan," Washington in Seattle in 1952. He studies at the Australian National which appeared as a chapter in the also attended the Université Paris- University and the University of book The New Nationalism and the Sorbonne and the , and had been on the First World War. Walter is the Helsinki, Finland. faculty of the Universiti Sains director of the Asian Studies Malaysia, Penang, and the Royal program at the University of During the 1950s, he traveled University of Fine Arts, Phnom Alaska Fairbanks. widely in Europe, combining Penh. language studies with a variety of This summer the Slavic jobs ranging from laborer on a He also published books and Department was saddened to learn seismographic survey project in articles on contemporary issues, of the passing of Michael Vickery Switzerland to administrative including Cambodia 1975-1982; (B.A. 1952). Michael graduated assistant at an import/export Kampuchea, Politics, Economics from the UW majoring in Russian company in Macedonia, and and Society; and Cambodia: A studies and while at the university, ultimately English teacher at a Political Survey. he participated in a Scandinavian private school in Istanbul, Turkey. Folk Dance group that went on tour Michael Vickery is survived by his in Sweden and Norway in 1950 or He came to Southeast Asia in 1960 longtime companion Otome Klein 1951. He often recalled that to teach English, first in Cambodia of Chiangmai, ; their experience as a highlight of his and later Laos. He became fluent in foster daughter Amema Saeju, of undergraduate career, and he Khmer and Lao, and later mastered Chiangmai; his daughter, stayed in touch with several of the Thai and Bahasa Melayu. Anchalina Thurlow and husband members of the group for many Gregg, of Portland, Maine; years. His obituary is posted In 1967, he returned to the US to granddaughter, Michaela Thurlow, below. enter the PhD program in of Los Angeles, California; sister, Southeast Asian Studies at Yale Kathleen, of Berkeley, California; MICHAEL THEODORE University. His dissertation, and nephew, Yvan Iturriaga, of VICKERY PhD, 1931-2017 Cambodia After Angkor, the Oakland, California. Mr. Vickery Michael Vickery, a historian whose Chronicular Evidence for the was divorced from Anchina Chea, work challenged established Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, of Portland, Maine. assumptions about the history and initiated the rigorous scholarship historiography of Cambodia and he pursued until shortly before his the Cambodian people, and who death. made significant contributions to

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GIFTS

The following is a list of gifts made to departmental funds since July 1, 2016. Donors to the Friends of Slavic Languages and Literatures Fund: James E. Chapin Allison Elice Cloud Robert Michael Croskey Mickey Stewart Eisenberg M.D. Joanna L. Gormly Marija Horoszowski Mark Even Kiken Ph.D. Brunhilda Lugo de Fabritz Ph.D. Cheryl L. Lundgren National Philanthropic Trust James D. West

Donors to the Vadim Pahn Fund: David Carl Andresen Burton E. Bard Jr. Mark Evan Kiken Ph.D.

Donors to the Lew R. Micklesen Graduate Fund: Joanna L. Gormley Jewish Community Foundation of Central New York

Donors to the Harold M. Swayze Fund: Mary Alyc Frisque

Donors to the Czech Studies Endowment Fund: Lisa Ann Frumkes Ph.D.

Donors to the Polish Studies Endowment Fund: Marija Horoszowski Teresa Malinowski Maciej M. Mrugala M.D. Krystyna Anna Untersteiner Polish Home Foundation Polish Women’s Club

Donors to the Friends of Polish Studies Fund: Benevity Stanley J. Ciuba Sr. Marija Horoszowski. Ryszard K. Kott Laurie A. Riley Roman Rogalski Elaine R. Tipton The Seattle Polish Foundation Krystyna Anna Untersteiner Linda Diane Wishkoski Polish Women’s Club

Donors to the Roma Boniecka-Anna Cienciala Endowment for Slovene Studies: Michael Biggins Marija Horoszowski Norman J. McCormick The IFS Family Foundation

Donors to the Friends of Ukrainian Studies Fund: Benevity Fidelity Investments Charitable Fund James D. West

Donors to the Endowed Fund for Ukrainian Studies: Laada Myroslava Bilaniuk Ph.D. Benevity Fidelity Investments Charitable Fund

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SUPPORT

The Slavic Department is very grateful to alumni and friends for their generous support. Please help the department continue its efforts by giving generously whenever possible. You may send a check made out to the Foundation with one of the funds designated on the memo line of your check. Please send your check and this form to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, Box 354335, Seattle, WA 98195-4335. If you would like to contribute with your credit card please go the “Support Us” page on our departmental website: https://slavic.washington.edu/support-us

( ) SEEURO Balkan Fund – Ensure the continued teaching of Balkan languages

( ) CZECHS Czech Studies Endowment Fund – Support for students studying Czech

( ) POLISS Friends of Polish Studies Fund – General support for Polish studies

( ) SLADIS Friends of Slavic Languages & Literatures – Gifts may be expended at the discretion of the Chair

( ) SLAVIC Institutional Allowance – General support for the department, including undergraduate and graduate student awards

( ) MICKLE Micklesen Graduate Fund – General support for graduate program

( ) POLDIS Polish Distinguished Speakers Fund – Showcase achievements of Poles by bringing speakers to campus

( ) POLFUL Polish Fulbright Fund – Increase Polish-specific course offerings by bringing Polish Fulbright scholars to the UW

( ) POLEND Polish Studies Endowment Fund – Promote permanence and expansion of program to include more levels of Polish language, history and culture

( ) ROMANI Romanian Studies Fund – Support Romanian Studies, including but not limited to support for a Romanian Fulbright

( ) RBCEND Slovene Studies Endowment Fund – Provide Support for Slovene Studies

( ) SWAYZE Swayze Fellowship Fund – Fellowship support for graduate students

( ) UKRANI Ukrainian Endowment Fund – Provide Ukrainian language and culture instruction

( ) PAHNSC Vadim Pahn Scholarship Fund – Russian language scholarship for undergraduates

( ) VGROSS Vladimir Gross Memorial Endowment Fund

Gifts are tax deductible in accordance with the law. If you are associated with a company which will match your gift, please include the appropriate form. Pursuant to RCW 10.09, the University of Washington is registered as a charitable organization with the Secretary of State, State of Washington. For information, call the Office of the Secretary of State, 1-800-332-4483.

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