Eastern Europe

MEDLI: the Middle Eastern & Mediterranean Language Institute at UW-Madison. For Summer 2023, we have additional FLAS funding opportunities and spaces available on our Turkish programs at all levels, in case any of your students are in need of funding or summer Turkish language options at a specific level. 

Also, if you have any students interested in learning Modern Hebrew at the Elementary Level this summer, we are offering students an automatic 50% tuition remission for that program.

Apply Here:

https://medli.wisc.edu/application/
For more information contact us at medli@lpo.wisc.edu

April 21, 12-2pm

Digital Humanities in Theory, Practice, and Emergency: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online

Quinn Dombrowski, Academic Technology Specialist in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research, Stanford University

Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 152
Smart Museum at the University of Chicago
5540 S. Greenwood Ave.

The Department of Germanic Studies and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies present a Romberg Memorial Lecture "Glimpses into Kafka’s Workshop" a conversation on translating a new unabridged English edition of Kafka’s Diaries with Ross Benjamin.

Monday, April 17th 4:30–6:00 p.m. CST

Social Science Tea Room

(Social Science Research Building Room 201)

Executive Director - Armenian Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03913

Sunday, May 7, 2023 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Ania Aizman and Anna Elena Torres will discuss With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism. They will be joined in conversation by Anne Eakin Moss.

Event Location: 

Seminary Co-Op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60615

REGISTER HERE

ROUNDTABLE EVENT WITH ARROWSMITH PRESS, Thursday, April 6, 1:30pm EST / 20:30 Kyiv

"With Open Eyes: Artists Respond to Russia's War on Ukraine." The Dept. of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures in collaboration with the Robert F. Byrnes REEI and Arrowsmith Press, invites you to a roundtable discussion focusing on how art and language respond to and influence war.

This is a virtual event on zoom. Register here - https://iu.zoom.us/.../tZIkdOmgqjopEtXHSlhObkBOB-OhXDiH_19j

Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop is looking forward to seeing you all for our first workshop session of Spring Quarter. We will be discussing Tahel Goldsmith's dissertation chapter “Preserved for Eternity”: Defining Authenticity and Struggling for It, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1947-1964. Elena Hoffenberg will serve as discussant.

Please join us next Thursday, March 23rd, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm. Location: Harper 145.

Ukraine: Fighting Corruption During a War and Beyond WEBINAR
April 5, 2023
Time: 12:00pm-1:15pm CT Chicago time

Join the Stigler Center for a conversation on these topics and more with Roger Myerson (University of Chicago), Tymofiy Mylovanov (Kyiv School of Economics) and Olga Rudenko (Kyiv Independent), moderated by Stephen Carroll (Bloomberg).

Register Here: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/events/ukraine-fighting-corruption-during-a-war-and-beyond