Russian major Jillian Pignataro received a Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award from the American Council of Teacher’s of Russian. The PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for outstanding junior and senior university-level students — those students who best…
In this year’s American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, there were 1,415 essays submitted from 79 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation. Congratulations to UIC’s three award winners! Diana Helwink:…
Russian major John Stachelski won First Place in the “Art/Design/Humanities” category at UIC’s 2016 Student Research Forum. John heads to graduate school at Yale in Fall 2016. His research project is entitled “The Meek…
The Conrad Festival in Kraków, organized by Professor Michał Paweł Markowski, has been shortlisted for the prestigious International Excellence Award at the London Book Fair in the category “literary festival”.
We invite all students of Polish language and heritage to participate in the second annual Polish poetry translation contest. Translation is of utmost importance for minor literatures such as that of Poland and…
Anna Szawara, Lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, has been appointed as a Teaching Scholar for UIC’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities. She will be part of…
Congratulations to UIC Graduate Students selected to participate in the 2016 Humanities Without Walls Consortium Pre-Doctoral Summer Workshop. Pre-Doctoral Fellows Tetyana Dzyadevych, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, and Alyssa Greenberg,…
Dr. Michal Markowski will be representing Polish literature at the biggest book fair in Asia, which is taking place in January in New Delhi, India. He was invited by the Polish Institute in…
Professor Markowski (Hejna Chair in Polish Language and Literature at UIC) has been directing the International Joseph Conrad Literary Festival in Kraków, Poland, the most important literary festival in Central Europe, since 2008.…