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Interested in studying Estonian language?
We are offering Estonian courses this year. Please see our undergraduate offerings, here.
Read more about our Estonian classes, here! |
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Ukrainian Film Night
Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die
2017, dir. Akhtem Seitablayev
In Ukrainian with English subtitles
Depicting the battle of Donetsk Airport in 2014
Wednesday, Oct 23. 2019
Rm. 404, Alumni Hall. 5:00 PM
Introduced by Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky
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A Special 5-Part Lecture Series
Making and Remaking Central Europe: The Czech and Slovak Contribution?
"NOT IN OUR TOWN“– A CASE STUDY OF CIVIC/YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AGAINST INTOLERANCE AND RADICALISM IN SLOVAKIA
Friday, October 25, 2019
10:00-12:00
108N, North house, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Big day for Polish literature!
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, postponed from last year, has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, while the 2019 award was given to Austrian author Peter Handke.
Tokarczuk won “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The Judges’ statement also reads that Tokarczuk is “a writer preoccupied with local life but at the same time inspired by maps and speculative thought, looking at life on Earth from above. Her work is full of wit and cunning.” The committee also singled out for special commendation Tokarczuk’s 1,000-page historical novel, The Books of Jacob, about the 18th-century Jewish sectarian leader, Jacob Frank (Riverhead Books plans to publish the novel in English in 2021). Tokarczuk’s novel “Flights” (translated by Jennifer Croft) won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for translated fiction.
We hosted Olga Tokarczuk in the department on November 23, 2010. To read more about her, click here, or read a chapter on her writing in the recently published Being Poland. A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (UofT Press, 2018).
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Polish Program Events: Fall 2019
Click the image below to view a full PDF of the Polish program's Fall 2019 events.
You can also click here to view the events.
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Professors Kate Holland and Leonid Livak were each awarded a prestigious SSHRC Insight grant for their research projects. |
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Prof. Holland's project, "Digital Dostoevsky," which will create an open-access database of Dostoevsky’s works and then use methods of digital text analysis and mapping on those works. The project also includes a book co-authored by Prof. Holland and her co-applicant, Prof. Katherine Bowers (UBC) that shows how different techniques of digital reading can open up old questions about Dostoevsky’s novels in new ways. The grant runs from 2019-2025. Slavic Librarian Ksenya Kiebuzinski is a collaborator on the project. |
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In his project, "The Final Chapter of Russia Abroad," Prof. Livak, in collaboration with Prof. Siggy Frank of the University of Nottingham (UK), will research and write the cultural history of the disintegration of the anti-Soviet Russian emigre community in France during and after the Second World War. |
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