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.…
Polish Professor and Department Head Michal Pawel Markowski, directs, for the seventh time, the major European literary event The Conrad Festival in Kraków, Poland. The festival takes place October 19-25. Over 150 eminent guests from…
Five UIC students win medals in the ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest. In this year’s contest, there were 1,087 essays submitted from 68 universities, colleges, and institutions across the nation. Three judges…
Russian major John Stachelski and Russian minor Sarah Lee have won LASURI awards to assist faculty members Julia Vaingurt and Colleen McQuillen, respectively, with their research in 2015-16. The mission of the LAS Undergraduate…
Michał Paweł Markowski has been nominated to the Central Europe Literary Award “Angelus”, for his latest book Day on Earth. Traveling Prose (Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2014). The Award is given to the best original…