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Summer 2017 Newsletter 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 1 Slavic News Summer 2017 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 2 Slavic News Summer 2017 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: 3 Slavic News Summer 2017 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.
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