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Prof. Leonid Livak has won this year’s prestigious Modern Language Association (MLA)’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, awarded biennially, for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Click here for more information.
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Czech and Slovak Culture Event and Czech Award Ceremony
On November 27th, our Department hosted the event in which students from Czech Language Course and Czech and Slovak Culture Course were presenting to our guests from Czech Community their class projects which included the interviews with some of the Czech community members. The Award Ceremony was a part of it - Nicolle Mitacek got the Ernest Tauber Award and Alex Bercik got the Tibor P. Gregor and Arthur J. Langley Sr. Award.
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Studying 'Ukrainian language and literature enriched my life': A&S alumnus Mark Strychar-Bodnar
Click here to read the article about an alumnus of the Slavic Department and how his Ukrainian studies enriched his life.
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The Successes of Our Class (2009-), or Why We Should
Continue to Translate Polish Contemporary Drama.
A Talk by Professor Knut Andreas Grimstad (University of Oslo)
When: December 4th, 2019, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Where: Alumni Hall 107, 120 St. Joseph St.
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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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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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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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