PRLS students participated in a folk art workshop delivered by a local artist, Grace Bazylewski. She taught them the traditional paper cutting technique known as wycinanki. Students made beautiful and colorful wycinanki, and…
The 600-page, 1st volume of the three-volume collection of The Collected Texts 1988-2023, which gathers all texts related to the issue of interpretation that Professor Markowski did not include in his already published…
Professor Markowski directed the International Joseph Conrad Literary Festival, one of the major literary events in Europe, for the 15th time! He also chaired the jury of The Conrad Award for the best…
The city of Kraków has honored Michał Paweł Markowski, Professor and Head of Polish Studies, with a dedicated bench in the city park surrounding the center of Krakow, to emphasize his contributions to…
Please join us in congratulating our own Karen Underhill who has just been awarded by the European Union Center (through Title VI) for her curriculum innovation project (“Development of a Multilingual Polish/Jewish Studies…
Dear All, following our students’ request from the last year’s seminar, Professor Michal Markowski is proposing a new course, which he will also open for students from other departments. If you know anybody…
Hello all, Our Professor and Head, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, Michal Makowski recently recorded a long material and has partnered with The Polish Cultural Institute in New York City for…
Giedrius Subačius, Professor and Endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies, has published his second volume on Simonas Daukantas’s orthography. Simon Daukanto: Sankt Peterburgo ortografija (1834-1846) (2022, Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian History) represents a continuation…
UIC’s Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature, Michał Markowski, contributed an essay “Indomitable Boredom Above the Entire World: Gombrowicz (and Other Polish Writers) on Existential Predicament” to the…
The journal Archivum Lithuanicum, edited by Giedrius Subačius, endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies at UIC, has received a grant of $57,000.00 from the Scientific Council of Lithuania. This grant is to cover expenses…
