News


Wed, 03/06/2024

An evening with Nadya Tolokonnikova of protest-art movement Pussy Riot

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies is hosting Russian musician, conceptual artist, political activist and founder of Pussy Riot, Nadya Tolokonnikova, at 6 p.m. April 4. ...

Mon, 02/26/2024

KU welcomes Ukrainian food anthropologist, historian as visiting professor

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Tue, 08/08/2023

"THOMAS MANN: DEMOCRACY WILL WIN" Exhibition to be hosted at the Max Kade Center

The Max Kade Center for German-American Studies at the University of Kansas will host the touring exhibition “THOMAS MANN: DEMOCRACY WILL WIN” from August 14th to September 15th. This exhibition is organized by Literaturhaus München and VATMH and is realized with the generous support of the German Federal Foreign Office.
Wed, 12/07/2022

KU community mourns death of faculty member Lorie Vanchena

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas community is mourning the death of professor Lorie A. Vanchena, who died Dec. 2 at the age of 61. ...

Tue, 11/22/2022

KU Welcomes Ukrainian Scholars Following Fundraising Efforts

Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the University of Kansas began working on several initiatives to support academic peers in Ukraine. One such endeavor, led by the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies, sought funding to support graduate students and faculty whose education and work were disrupted by the invasion.
Mon, 10/31/2022

Translator brings Ukrainian writers’ meditations on vulnerability, strength to West

Tue, 09/20/2022

What’s in a name? Magic, in author’s Birdverse

Thu, 07/14/2022

GRANT WILL EXPAND RUSSIAN STUDIES PROGRAM FOR KANSAS HIGH SCHOOLS

A University of Kansas researcher has received a grant from the U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) for $220,000 to provide opportunities and access to Russian studies to Kansas high school students, primarily through the offering of free, online elementary Russian language courses.
Fri, 06/17/2022

KU language center that trains select military personnel receives funding through 2025

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas’ designation as a Department of Defense (DoD) Language Training Center has been renewed through 2025. ...

Tue, 05/24/2022

KU units work together to assist Ukrainian students, scholars

LAWRENCE — Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, units across the University of Kansas have come together to support Ukrainian students on the Lawrence campus and assist students and scholars displaced by the war. ...

Tue, 05/03/2022

KU student Aylar Atadurdyyeva named a Key into Public Service Scholar

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas student Aylar Atadurdyyeva, from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, is one of 20 students selected as a Key into Public Service Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated interest in working in the public...

Tue, 04/12/2022

EVENING OF STORIES, PERFORMANCES WILL OFFER SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE

Featuring personal stories, poetry, theatre performance and music, several University of Kansas partners will host a night in support of Ukrainians on April 18.
Tue, 04/05/2022

TWO LANGUAGE DEPARTMENTS IN THE COLLEGE TO MERGE

The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages & Literatures and the Department of German Studies at the University of Kansas will merge and become the Department of Slavic, German & Eurasian Studies.
Mon, 12/20/2021

Conservative or queer-friendly? Russian writer reassessed

Mon, 08/30/2021

Spatial analysis reveals new dimensions of 'War and Peace'

Tue, 12/08/2020

Grant will support KU's Russian studies outreach in Kansas schools

LAWRENCE — A $120,000 grant from the U.S.-Russia Foundation will support University of Kansas outreach efforts to create a series of academic programs that will expand Russian language and Russian studies opportunities for Kansas high school students. ...

Mon, 05/18/2020

The critic who decried ‘fake news’ a century ago

Mon, 05/11/2020

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures announces name change

LAWRENCE – The Kansas Board of Regents recently approved a name change for a University of Kansas languages department in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. ...

Thu, 04/30/2020

PROFESSORS LEAD DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE SLAVIC LANGUAGES ENCYCLOPEDIA

If there are dictionaries of the Slavic languages, why do we need the new Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages & Linguistics Online?
Wed, 04/29/2020

BOOK EXPLAINS HOW UKRAINIAN WOMEN WRITERS GAINED PUBLIC VOICE

LAWRENCE – Centuries of ongoing Russian repression of its neighbor, Ukraine, was the backdrop to headlines just weeks ago, during the impeachment of President Donald Trump. It is a foreground issue in the first book to critically examine the reemergence of Ukrainian women’s writing in the post-Soviet era. ...

Wed, 02/26/2020

EXPERT SEES RUSSIAN HAND IN MONTENEGRO CONFLICT

What’s heating up the Balkans? And what do street protests over church property in Montenegro have to do with Russia’s strategic military aims? ...

Thu, 11/21/2019

PROFESSOR BRINGING IMPORTANT UKRAINIAN NOVEL TO WESTERN AUDIENCES

As the locus of the current impeachment drama, Ukraine is in all the headlines these days. A University of Kansas professor hopes that makes the ground more fertile for his native country’s most celebrated recent novel, which he is translating into English and otherwise working to popularize in the West.
Wed, 08/01/2018

Making Albania’s leading writer accessible in English

Mon, 06/04/2018

Book looks at global significance of German Anna Seghers' authorship

LAWRENCE — After being forced to flee Germany during World War II due to her anti-fascist stances, author Anna Seghers returned in 1947, eventually moving to East Berlin. ...

Tue, 02/06/2018

'Grotesque Realism' in Russian literature reflected social turmoil

LAWRENCE — Historians agree that the failure of Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms of 1861-1874 put into motion events that set the stage for the Russian Revolution years later. Now a new book attempts to quantify the effect of this national, political and social disappointment on Russian literature. ...

Mon, 03/13/2017

Reading 'Anna Karenina' in the age of social media

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Fri, 02/12/2016

Great 19th century Russian writers and Y2K scare influenced by same anxiety, scholar says

LAWRENCE – The same anxiety that drove the Y2K computer bug panic at the turn of the millennium can be found in “Anna Karenina,” the Russian novel that Leo Tolstoy wrote more than a century earlier, a KU professor argues. ...

Thu, 10/29/2015

From Slavic folklore to Sookie Stackhouse, new course will study vampire depiction in the East and West

LAWRENCE – A University of Kansas professor hopes the allure of vampires will tempt students to learn more about the region of the world from which Dracula hails. ...