Slavic Languages and Literatures

Gordana Crnković’s latest book, In Contrast: Croatian Film Today, a volume co-edited with Aida Vidan, is now out from Croatian Film Association and Cinephilia, UK.

A review of Professor Barbara Henry’s book, Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama, was published on April 30, 2012 in The Jewish Daily Forward.

Gordana Crnkovic’s latest book, Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes, has just been published in both the U.S. and Europe. More information may be found at http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=165864&SearchType=Basic

A review of Galya Diment’s latest book, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury, appeared in the March 23, 2012 edition to The Times Literary Supplement. UW readers have access to this review through UW Libraries (http://uwashington.worldcat.org/title/tls-the-times-literary-supplement/oclc/2241740&referer=brief_results).

During winter quarter Affiliate Faculty Claudia Jensen taught a class with people hungry for education: honors students and former prison inmates in what has become the Post-Prison Community Collaboration Project.

Friend of the Slavic Department Mary Sherhart was honored by the Ethnic Heritage Council on March 2, 2012 with the Aspasia Phoutrides Pulakis Award for her significant contributions to a Northwest ethnic community. Mary, organizer of the Slavic Fest, is one of America’s leading artists in Balkan singing, a rare non-native recognized and loved by ethnic audiences. Mary excels at building bridges through the shared joy of music, overcoming political differences in the Balkan community. Congratulations, Mary! Your award is richly deserved!

Check out the latest issue of the journal, Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema Articles, for articles by former grad student Emily Schuckman Matthews (PhD 2008) and current grad student Lena Doubivko. Congratulations to both!

Galya Diment will be giving readings of her latest book, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury, at Elliott Bay Book Store on January 24, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. and at University Book Store on January 30, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

José Alaniz has been elected chair of the International Comic Arts Forum, the leading comics studies conference in America.

The UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee is hosting an exhibit honoring the 100th anniversary of Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry through December 16 in the north lobby of the UW’s Allen Library. The exhibit is cosponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and created by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw.

Maria Skłodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, her husband Pierre, and Antoine Henri Becquerel in 1903 for their research on radiation phenomena. Her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, was awarded in 1911 for the discovery of polonium and radium.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.