From Leonid Brezhnev's pharmacological bids for corporeal immortality, to the continued display of Lenin's (un)dead body in the Mausoleum, official culture in the late Soviet period was at pains to demonstrate its own permanence. Yet novels like the Strugatsky brothers' … Read more
Welcome to the 2023-24 lunch & learn series for DEIA in the world language and content classroom at UNC. Through this series, we will engage with language departments, faculty, area studies centers, and visiting scholars to discuss challenges to and … Read more
Kimberly St. Julian Varnon is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work examines how Black experiences in the Soviet Union shaped modes of Black identity and how the presence of people of color shaped ideas … Read more
Global history has come late to Habsburg Central Europe, and when it has, it often tends to bypass the Habsburg Empire and its successor states. The newest nationalism that currently permeates politics, governmental policies, and official history writing may highlight … Read more
Nothing says love like poetry! Join us in the Toy Lounge on February 15 for an evening of love poems and chocolate. Sign up to read a poem in a Slavic language of your choosing and stick around to enjoy … Read more
Join us for a talk and discussion with Ainsley Morse – scholar, literary translator, and UNC alumna – on her newly published book Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature (Northwestern UP, 2021). The book traces the history of the … Read more
Join us for a special screening and discussion of Mila Turajlić's award-winning documentary “Druga Strana Svega” (eng. The Other Side of Everything). A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 … Read more
Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. This one event was linked to so many others: an election in Poland, a dismantled electrified fence in Hungary, candlelit marches, and a human chain of people joining hands up and down the … Read more
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer received the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award. Her book Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working … Read more
East European scholars have only recently begun investigating the tragic history of the Roma people under the Nazi regime during World War II. In addition to analyzing the road to the commemoration of the Romani Holocaust, this lecture will also … Read more
