CREECA at UW-Madison

📣 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies has reopened its 2026 Internship Grant Program competition on a rolling basis.

The opportunity is open to incoming, current, and recent MA, PhD, and professional school students. The grants make it possible to accept unpaid or underpaid internships in areas broadly related to Russia, including Russia’s relations with other regions/countries. Follow the link below for more information and to apply.

ASEEES Internship Grant Program | Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies The Internship Grant Program provides MA, PhD, and professional school students and recent graduates with funds that make it possible for them to accept unpaid or underpaid internships in areas broadly related to Russia, including Russia’s relations with other regions/countries.

Did you miss out on celebrating Vyshyvanka Day on the third Thursday of May? Fear not, because community organization Friends of Ukraine - Madison is holding a special event to celebrate the vyshyvanka and Ukrainian culture on Saturday, May 30 from 2-5 pm at 326 S. Segoe Rd.

📣 K-14 educators are invited to apply for a Blavatnik Archive Curriculum Writing Teacher Fellowship. The theme of this fellowship is “Reading Visual Propaganda.”

In partnership with CREECA, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and other education outreach partners, this free, hands-on program invites educators to explore powerful visual propaganda from the twentieth century and transform what they learn into dynamic classroom curriculum. Participants will engage with a diverse set of primary sources drawn from the Blavatnik Archive, as well as guidance from subject-matter experts, to support the development of a unit plan tailored to their classroom needs.

⏰ Deadline: June 1, 2026
🔦 Learn more and apply: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/blavatnik-archive-curriculum-writing-teacher-fellowship

⏰ Save the dates for this free workshop series open to the public courtesy of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus - ARISC.

Join our workshop series!

Research Resources Workshops for the South Caucasus

Librarians and researchers will hold a series of online sessions presenting information on South Caucasus library collections, resources, and archival sources, with an emphasis on information that can be accessed remotely.

Register for each sessions separately. Links are in the first comment.

Armenia
Thursday, May 21, 2026, at 4pm eastern
Dr. Houri Berberian, Chancellor's Professor of History & Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, University of California, Irvine, Moderator
Dr. Aram Ghoogasian, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Liladhar Pendse, Librarian, the University of California at Berkeley Library

Azerbaijan
Friday, May 22, 2026, at 11am eastern
Dr. Heather DeHaan, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University
Dr. Michael Erdman, Head, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Collections, The British Library
Michael Ernst, PhD Candidate in Art History, Temple University
Dr. Irina Levin, Lecturer in Anthropology, Princeton University
Dr. Kelsey Rice, Assistant Professor of History, Berry College, Moderator

Georgia
Monday, June 8, 2026, at 1:30pm eastern
Dr. Görkem Aydemir-Kundakci, FWO Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, KU Leuven
Dr. Timothy Blauvelt, Research Professor of Russia and Eurasia Studies, U.S. Army War College
Dr. Kit Condill, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Molly Walker, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Harrison King, PhD Candidate, University of California at Berkeley, Moderator

The event is free and open to the public.

This semester’s Nauryz Eurasian Spring Festival provided a dynamic showcase of Kazakh culture. CREECA is grateful to the organizers and hosts including UW-Madison Kazakh senior lecturer Gulnara Glowacki, former Russian Flagship Coordinator Jacob Aehl, UW-Madison students Sam Ahlquist and Phillip Abramowitz, and Nursultan Azhimuratov. Рақмет to all involved!

Madison Commons has additional coverage here: https://madisoncommons.org/even-in-the-american-midwest-the-language-of-spring-still-arrives-in-kazakh/

Listen again to this panel of scholars speak on, "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In” from the March 5th CREECA Roundtable Discussion as part of the spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

CREECA Lecture: "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In," a Roundtable Discussion CREECA lecture, recorded on March 5, 2026: "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In," a Roundtable Discussion with speakers Mark Copelovitch (Professor of Pol...

Get ready for your summer at WISLI! Maryanna recommends immersing yourself in the language you’re learning as much as possible.



Listen again to Jesse Kruschke's lecture, "From Hughes to Baldwin: How Soviet Critics Read Black American Literature,” from the CREECA spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia CREECA Lecture: "From Hughes to Baldwin" by Jesse Kruschke

Listen again to Professor Kirill Ospovat's lecture, "A 'Total Revolution?' The Pugachev Rebellion: Between Indigenous Republicanism and the Radical Enlightenment” from the CREECA spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia 1 like. "CREECA Lecture: "A Total Revolution" by Kirill Ospovat"