The Slavic Department Lecture Series
Location: AH400
Time: 4:00 PM

Monday, October 2 - Anu Muhonen
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto
"Multilingual Research Practice and the Shifting Roles of the Ethnographer: Lived Experience from One Research Project"

Monday, October 23 - Klavdia Smola
Chair of Slavic Literatures at the Technology University of Dresden
"Speaking Outcast: Performing Masculinity in Soviet Underground Culture"

Monday, November 27 - Magdalena Cabaj
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto

Monday, January 22 - Alison Smith
Department of History, University of Toronto

Monday, February 26 - Dragana Obradovic
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto

Monday, March 25 - Edward Schatz
Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Political Science, University of Toronto

Important Program News

The Department's Estonian, Finnish, and Slavic undergraduate programs are changing!

To learn more about program changes in Estonian Studies, click here.

To learn more about program changes in Finnish Studies, click here.

To learn more about program changes in Slavic Studies, click here.

The Cyril and Methodius Review

The Cyril and Methodius Review – The University of Toronto’s Slavic Undergraduate Academic Journal – has published its first volume!

Click here to view.

The Cyril and Methodius Review is the first Undergraduate Slavic Academic Journal at the University of Toronto! Our goal for the journal is to create a space to preserve and circulate Slavic influenced writing, art, and other creative mediums.

The first volume was edited by Edited by Margaret Todoroska, Quinton Cheung Atkinson, Ava Mrmak, Arayamah Ocol, and Chloe Qin. With cover art by Sofija Stankovic. Prof. Zdenko Mandusic as the journal’s academic advisor.

Ukrainian Language Courses in 2023-24

Department News

Prof. Ann Komaromi was featured on the Faculty of Arts & Science news:

"Preserving history through dissent literature - Ann Komaromi explores Russia's underground publishing network."

Click here to read the article.

Department News

Prof. Kate Holland has written the introduction to a new volume of Gogol's short stories, translated by Michael Katz, in the Norton Library series.

Click here for more information.

Digital Dostoevsky

Prof. Kate Holland and her Digital Dostoevsky research team will be presented at the Critical Digital Humanities International Conference at U of T on October 1.

The roundtable is entitled “Digital Dostoevsky, or the Challenges of Doing Multilingual DH.”

Digital Dostoevsky is a computational text analysis project on a corpus of 5 novels and two novellas by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is a digital humanities project which emerges out of our long-standing interest in traditional philological analysis.

We are excited by how digital approaches such as TEI encoding, machine reading, and natural language processing can help to answer questions about the deep structure of Dostoevsky’s novels, questions about speech, character, space, temporality, affect, and fictionality, among other areas.

The project is hosted at the University of Toronto and supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Prof. Holland’s research team includes her co-PI, Dr. Katherine Bowers from UBC, three Slavic Department Graduate Student RAs, Braxton Boyer, Elena Vasileva and Elijah Sciborowski, and four U of T undergrad RAs: Dmytro Ishchenko, Nadia Ivanovna, Veronika Sizova, and Eden Zorne.  

For more information on the conference, click here. For more information on the Digital Dostoevsky Research Project, see their blog.

Department News

Department of Slavic Languages and Literature PhD student, Filipp Lekmanov, recently won the CAS Graduate Essay Prize!

Click here for more details.

Our alumnus, Ian Garner, who wrote his dissertation on Vasily Grossman’s accounts of the Stalingrad Battle, reflects on the Victory Day in today’s Russia.

Read his article here in The Globe and Mail.

Another article in Haaretz.

Recently Published

Prof. Ann Komaromi's new book, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" has recently been published!

You can read more about the book here.

Undergraduate Scholarship Competition!

Academic Year 2023-24

For General Scholarship Information, click here.

Kenneth Lantz Scholarship for Excellence
Click here to apply.
(Application Deadline September 20, 2023).

Upcoming Event

Vendulka: Flight to Freedom - exhibition and a talk with the photographer Ondrej Kudrna

September 26, 6pm
St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Ave. 

Click here for more details and registration.

Upcoming Event

Ondrej Kudrna - Russian invasion on Ukraine: How to report from a warzone

September 27, 1-3pm,
1 Devonshire Palace, 208N

Czech and Slovak Courses 2023-24

SLA214H1S - Slavic Languages Through Creative Writing

SLA225H1F - Czech and Slovak Cinema

SLA105Y1Y - Elementary Czech

News Article

Slavic Department Master's degree graduates, Isabel and Sophia Jewell, are featured in an article by the CBC.

Click here to read the article.

Recently Published

Prof. T. Allan Smith's new book - "Sergii Bulgakov, Philosophy of the Name" - has been published!

It is a volume in the NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies edited by Roy R. Robson.

You can read more about the book here.