Chicago is home to the largest concentration of Central East Europeans outside of Europe; and our Department is truly representative of this ethnic diversity in offering a unique range of language and literature courses in Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian.

News and Announcements

Slavic Modernism Workshop: Philosophy and Poetry on the Go: Osip Mandelstam's "Conversation about Dante"
On Saturday, April 21, the Department will host its first Workshop on Slavic Modernism in UH 1650 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Click here for a complete list of presenters and papers.

The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
The 23rd bi-annual conference of the AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies), will be held April 26-28, 2012 on the UIC campus. The conference will feature a plenary roundtable with the U.S. Ambassadors from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as a speech by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois titled "The Unbreakable U.S. Baltic Partnership".

Sunday, April 22-Thursday, April 26: Contemporary Polish Art Week
The Hejna Chair in Polish Language and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago is sponsoring one of the most extensive presentations of contemporary Polish art in Chicago. World-renowned artists and curators Maria Anna Potocka, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Piotr Krajewski will deliver a series of significant lectures.

Professor Magdalena Sroda, Warsaw University, Poland, will be the Keynote Speaker for the Symposium on the Study of Gender and Sexuality in East-Central European History. Her lecture, "Sex, Ethics, Gender," will take place THURSDAY, MARCH 29 at 5:00 p.m. in the Institute for the Humanities.

The Department is pround to announce the reactivation of its newly-revised MA and PhD Programs in Slavic Studies, with concentrations in Polish Literature and Culture and Russian Literature and Culture. The department is accepting applications for the Fall 2012 semester. Interested students should contact Roció Garcia (mexotic@uic.edu) for information about the application process.

Michal Pawel Markowski is named as the inaugural Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures. See the UIC News announcment.

Contact Information

Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics
601 South Morgan Street, 1722 University Hall(m/c 306)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7117
Telephone: (312) 996-5218
Fax: (312) 413-1044

FUNDS

Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literature encourages patrons to support its academic development under the new Headship. Our Department has recently re-opened its graduate program and wants to become a vivid place for international scholarship. We have already designed a series of guest lectures and are looking forward to establishing a Summer School in Krakow, Poland. Under the severe economical crisis we do our best to manage with a tight budget, but with no support from the outside we will obviously do less. In order to facilitate gathering money for our development we open our two funds, Karpowicz Fund and Norwid Fund, to public and encourage all our supporters to give small donations to SBLL in order to make Polish intellectual life in Chicago flourish.

1. Cyprian Kamil Norwid Cultural Fund
2. Tymoteusz Karpowicz Polish Cultural Fund