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Spring 2015

Spring 2015

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2015 Midwest Slavic Conference
Written by Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator and Megan Kupka, CSEES intern The Midwest Slavic Conference (MWSC), held at The Ohio State University March 13-15, was organized by the Midwest…
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Director’s Notes
Dear Colleagues, Students, Alumni and Friends of Slavic, Now that the euphoria of the successful Title VI competition is over, the hard work has begun. Our first year of the cycle was dedicated to…
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Teaching Uzbek across State Lines
By Maureen Miller, director of communications, Office of International Affairs A collaborative effort between The Ohio State University; the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC); and the…
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Internship Spotlight: Lauren Post
By Lauren Post, graduate student, Center for Slavic and East European Studies During the summer of 2014, I interned at the Kino Lab at the Center for Contemporary Arts, located at Ujazdow Castle in…
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Internship Spotlight: Karolina Chimchenko
By Karolina Chimchenko, graduate student, Center for Slavic and East European Studies In September 2014, I had the honor of interning at the Lech Walesa Institute, a human rights nongovernmental…
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Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program
By Eric Connelly, Ohio State alumnus 2014 Since graduating from The Ohio State University last year, my life has been somewhat of a whirlwind. I am…
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2015 Master of Arts in Slavic and East European Studies Graduates
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies is proud to announce that five students are graduating spring semester with a Masters of Arts in Slavic and…
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Graduate Student Choice Lecture: Alaina Lemon
By Will Bezbatchenko and Carrie Ann Morgan, graduate students, Center for Slavic and East European Studies Each year, the Center for Slavic and East…
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Summer 2015 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Recipients
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for summer 2015 to the following three students: Rebecca Bostock-Holtzman will be…
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Guest Lectures at Community Colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions
By Eileen Kunkler, assistant director, Center for Slavic and East European Studies In March, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) staff…
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CSEES Welcomes New Outreach Coordinator, Anthony Adame
Anthony Adame joined the Center for Slavic and East European Studies as its outreach coordinator in early February. Anthony graduated with a Masters of Arts…
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2015 Annual K-12 Teacher Training Workshop
By Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies In March, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) organized one of its largest teacher training…
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Undergraduate Olympiada of Spoken Russian
By Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies On Saturday, February 28, ten Ohio State undergraduates made the…
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Ohio K-12 Russian Language Olympiada
By Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies High school students from Toledo and Cincinnati visited The Ohio State University on Saturday, March 21 to…
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Film Library Additions
By Maryann Walther-Keisel, office coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies The Center for Slavic and East European Studies has purchased several films since December and two films…
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Faculty Updates
Nick Breyfogle published “At the Watershed: 1958 and the Beginnings of Lake Baikal Environmentalism” in Slavonic and East European Review 93, no. 1 (2015) and “‘Another Voice from God’: An Orthodox…
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Student Updates
Marta Kolczynska, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, published “Representation of Southeast European Countries in International Survey Projects: Assessing Data Quality,” in Ask: Research…
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An Update from Kodiak, Alaska
By Daria Safronova-Simeonoff, PhD candidate, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Blessed are those rare people who have a happy…
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Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Exchange Program
The College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ (CFAES) Office of International Programs in Agriculture (IPA), in collaboration with…
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Fulbright-Hays Postcard: Experiences in Poland, Winter 2015
By Peter Jan Tunkis, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science and visiting Fulbright-Hays Scholar at IFiS-PAN As a Fulbright-Hays fellow this year, I…
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Polish Studies Initiative Grant and Scholarship Announcements
By Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies The Polish Studies Initiative (PSI) is pleased to announce its winners of the 2015 PSI Grant and Scholarship…
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The Polish Way: Martin Scorsese’s Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
By Daniel Pratt, visiting assistant professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures In January, we were fortunate enough to hold a…
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PSI Lecture: Visiting Scholar Tomas Pudlocki
By Anthony A. Adame, outreach coordinator, Center for Slavic and East European Studies On Thursday, April 9, the Polish Studies Initiative (PSI) coordinated a lecture by visiting scholar Tomasz…