DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Slavic News: Winter 2021 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR, Co jest w szczepionce? What is in the vaccine? KATARZYNA DZIWIREK Zapomniane pocałunki I uściski. Forgotten kisses and hugs. Wycieczki szkolne. Babcie School trips. Grandmas i dziadkowie przy świątecznym stole. and grandpas at the holiday table. Film w kinie z popcornem A movie in the theater with popcorn Dear Friends of the Slavic Department, i dużą colą. Wieczór w teatrze and a big cola. An evening in a full przy pełnej sali. Koncerty. theater. Concerts. Happy New Year! I certainly Kolacja w restauracji z przyjaciółmi, A dinner in a restaurant with friends, hope that it will be better podczas której próbujemy nawzajem during which we try each other’s than the last one for all of us. swoich przystawek. Weekendowy appetizers. A weekend trip wyjazd wymyślony w zeszłym tygodniu. thought up last week. Here at the department we Domówka, na którą każdy przynosi A house party to which everyone brings are soldiering on. This is our własnoręcznie zrobione przysmaki. homemade delicacies. fourth quarter of teaching Zawody sportowe. Uścisk dłoni Sports competitions. A handshake online and spring quarter na powitanie. Spokojny sen in greeting. Peaceful sleep looks to be the same. We are i otwarte granice. Nauczyciele spacerujący and open borders. Teachers walking looking forward to next fall między rzędami ławek, Odloty co kilka between rows of desks. Departures every minut i tłok na dworcu. Swoboda pozostania few minutes and a crowded station. when we hope classes can w domu, kiedy chcę,,,, Freedom to stay home when I want…. resume in person. Despite many challenges, especially to language Please take care during these difficult times and keep teachers, our remote mode of operation has allowed in touch. us to organize events which would not be possible otherwise. There were two lectures on Soviet cinema All the best, organized by Prof. Sasha Senderovich. Our Ukrainian FLTA Marta Tomakhiv organized two exciting and well attended events on modern Ukrainian literature and on the holiday of Malanka. Both included presenters from Ukraine and the latter had live performances as well. The Polish group organized lectures about the CONTENTS economic underpinnings of the fall of socialism in Poland and the writing of Polish-Jewish history in > 2 Announcements interwar Poland. Prof. Michael Biggins continues to > 2 Faculty News lead the Readings from the Heart of Europe book club monthly. Please make sure to check our website and > 3 Student News Facebook to learn about future events! > 4 Fulbright News > 5 Polish News I am keeping my fingers crossed that soon we will be > 6 Slovene News able to travel, see our loved ones and do all the things > 7 Ukrainian News we have missed so much over the course of the last year. I want to close by quoting an anonymous Polish > 8 News from You poem (in my translation) which has been circulating on > 10 Gifts & Support social media lately. ANNOUNCEMENTS Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; they were held remotely because of the Covid-19 pandemic and were attended by about 160 people both from the A message from the Slavic and East European Teachers Seattle area and other cities in the United States and Association of Washington (SEETAW) Europe. Please join us for the first Zoom meeting of the Slavic and East European Teachers Association of Creation of new scholarship for students Washington (SEETAW). We were recognized in February 2020 as an official chapter of AATSEEL and we Marina Dunaravich (BA 2009) has recently created a are represented on the Board of the Washington scholarship to honor the memory and legacy of her Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT). The late grandfather and brother. This scholarship, named meeting will take place on February 20, 2021 at 1pm, the Oleg Fomin Scholarship, is intended to encourage and will be a 30-minute introduction for everyone who and promote the exploration and study of the believes that we should support and expand the languages, cultures, and histories of the post-Soviet learning and teaching of languages spoken in Russia states. It will provide one student per year with $1,500 and Eastern and Central Europe. Register in advance to travel to the region for this purpose. Initially funded for the meeting, and you will receive a confirmation for a period of five years, Marina hopes this email with information about how to join. scholarship will provide undergraduate and graduate students in the Slavic Department with an opportunity Before the SEETAW meeting, join language teaching to conduct self-directed travel and to research and tell colleagues from the University of Washington and the stories that people have lived, but that have not around the state for the 2021 UW Heritage Language yet been told. We would like to wholeheartedly thank Symposium. The symposium will take place from Marina for her generous gift and establishing this 9:00am – 12:30pm on February 20th, and features a fund! keynote speech by Dr. Olesya Kisselev, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas San Antonio. For more information and to register, visit the 2021 UW Heritage Language Symposium website. Lecture Series on Stalinism and Russian Cinema In connection to his course "Russian Revolutions: Film," Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich organized a series of two public lectures during the Autumn 2020 quarter. Prof. Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) spoke on Oleg Vadimovich Fomin and Oleg Valerievich Fomin-Shakhov "The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1929-1935" on FACULTY NEWS October 26, and Prof. Joan Neuberger (University of Textas Austin) gave a talk Professor José Alaniz published a new essay on entitled "Sergei Eisenstein's disability representation in Russian superhero Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's comics. The essay, entitled "Allies and Disability Russia" on November 9. The Representation in Contemporary Russian Comics," is talks were co-sponsored by available to read at Comics Forum. He also the departments of History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the Ellison Center for DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES slavic.uw.edu reviewed the 2020 Russian horror/sci-fi film "Sputnik" Soviet Jew Was Made, which is scheduled to be in KinoKultura. published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2022. Affiliate Professor Michael Biggins has received the 2020 Trubar Award! This prestigious award is given only to the most highly regarded contributors in STUDENT NEWS the preservation and promotion of Slovene written language and/or written cultural heritage, and is an honor to receive. Be sure to check out the 40-minute Despite the pandemic we welcomed three new graduate interview with Dr. Biggins about the Trubar Award that students to the department this year. Even though we was broadcast over RTV-Slovenija, as well as the have not yet met in person, we are so happy they are here! interview on Radio Prvi and articles by the Slovenian Government, The National and University Library, RTV- Meet Taylor Eftimov, Ph.D. Student Slovenija, and Primorske Novice. Taylor is interested in former Yugoslav literature and Professor Galya Diment was a Peer Reviewer for both culture. She is originally from Pennsylvania, where she The Fulbright US Scholar Program and NEH (National did her undergrad at Delaware Valley University with a Endowment for Humanities) in the fall. She also served double major in as a member of the UW Fulbright Scholarship Wildlife Management Committee and published an article—"Katherine & Conservation and Mansfield and Russian Mystics"—in The Bloomsbury English Literature. Handbook to Katherine Mansfield. She then went to live in Florida and got a Affiliate Professor Gene Lemcio continues his Master's in English research post retirement. Last March he published a Literature from new book, entitled The Way of the Lord: Plotting St. Florida Atlantic Luke’s Itinerary. A Pedagogical Aid (Wipf and Stock, University where her 2020), in which he observes that Polish and Ukrainian concentration was in versions of Scripture are among translations that World and Multicultural Literature. While writing her render the Greek ΑΦΕΣΙΣ as “letting go” or “release” Master's thesis, she took an interest in a memoir (odpuszczenie and відпущення, respectively), and called Bluebird by Vesna Marić. That is how she notes that dynamics of “forgiveness” are more evident developed an interest in former Yugoslavia and why in them than in English Bibles. He also critically she finds herself at UW studying with “some really reviewed Andrii Danylenko's From the Bible to great professors.” Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kulish (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian. His review, which also Why did you choose to apply to the UW Slavic Dept? makes suggestions for further research, appears in Наукові Записки: Серія Богослов'я ["Academic Texts. I was really drawn to UW's Slavic department because Series Theology, The Ukrainian Catholic University]. 5 it is one of the only programs in the country that (Lviv: 2018) 209–13. doesn't just focus solely on Russian language and literature. I don't know Russian and that was a big Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich presented a requirement to attend other universities. I was very paper entitled "'We are Dead People: The Soviet Jew as impressed by the range of languages offered by the the Undead" at a conference on Jewish Zombies department (even rarely taught languages in organized by Pennsylvania State University and held universities, such as Slovene!) and it made me excited remotely. He received a competitive fellowship at the to expand my knowledge of different Slavic languages, Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies at the University of as well as focus on the literature aspect as well. Michigan Ann Arbor, to begin his new project on "Translating the Soviet Jew between Russia and America." He finished his first monograph, How the DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES slavic.uw.edu Have you ever been to Seattle before? Any “must see” conditions.