Public lecture by Prof. Ilya Gerasimov
The Great Russian Imperial Revolution of 1917
News & events
“1917 and Today"
The Department is organizing an international conference “1917 and Today: Putin, Russia and the Legacy of Revolution”. October 25-27, 2017. The public is welcome to the round-table, art exhibit and all panels.
The first Russian Language Testing Centre in Canada
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies opens the first Russian Language Testing Centre in Canada
Read more: The first Russian Language Testing Centre in Canada
Kate Ehle - our first ever Master's graduate in Slavic Studies stream
Kate Ehle - our first ever Master's graduate in Slavic Studies stream
Read more: Kate Ehle - our first ever Master's graduate in Slavic Studies stream
New book by Charlotte Schallié
A heartfelt congratulation to Charlotte Schallié on the publication of her book "Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest", which just has come out on Monday. Please listen to her interview to the CFAX1070.
Chorong Kim is among UVic photo contest winners
Chorong Kim is among UVic photo contest winners
New film by Chorong Kim
Narratives of Memory, Migration, and Xenophobia
New European field school delves into urgent global issues
University of Victoria students are visiting historic sites in Europe in a new field school underway that examines urgent global issues, such as migration, the refugee crisis and the memorialization of the Holocaust.
Read more: New European field school delves into urgent global issues
Information sessions
Next I-witness Field School will take place in the Summer term of 2018.
- International Internship opportunity
- Grad Student receives a SSHRC grant
- Elena Pnevmonidou will present at the IdeaFest
- SLST 300 Sessional position for January 2018
- Double Denim night at Felicita's
- GMST 202 Sessional position for January 2018
- Germanic and Slavic Studies Graduate Conference
- Award winning Icelandic films at VFF sponsored by Beck Lecture Series
- Women Scholars Lecture by Anne Wizorek
- 2nd Annual Holocaust Awareness Week
- Lansdowne Lectures by Dr. Tamara Hundorova
- Ukrainian Studies newsletter
- Graduate summer field school
- Eastern and Southern Ukraine in Peace and War
- Peter Gölz' CBC interview on 15th anniversary of the history of vampires course
- Düzen Tekkal Lansdowne Lecture
- Book Launch and Lecture by Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk
- Rowan Meredith (Slavic Studies) graduates with highest GPA this fall
- Allison Wardle about her experience at the 2016 I-Witness Holocause Field School
- Presentation and book launch by Dr. Ulf Schuetze
- Richard and Margaret Beck Lecture Series. Dr. Torfi Tulinius.
- 2016 I-witness Field School on Polish TV
- DAAD Sessional
- "Paradise Lost: John Milton, Jón Þorláksson, and Richard Beck"
- Holocaust Studies MA
- Re-inventing the Greek anti-austerity movement
- Halloween Week Classic Horror Night
- The refugee crisis - the Canadian response
- Sessional positions for the Spring 2017 in Slavic Studies
- 2016 Newsletter
- Understanding the refugee crisis - the European response
- Jesse Bachmann published in Arbutus Review
- Holocaust Conference in The Ring
- Chorong Kim wins award at Montreal Student Film Festival
- Information sessions for the I-witness Field School
- Coming this September: Explore the World of Franz Kafka (GMST 480)
- DAAD Fortbildungsseminar
- Fundraiser was a great success!
- Serhy Yekelchyk wins book award!
- Global Connections: Critical Holocaust Education in a Time of Transition Conference
- Readers of the Holocaust
- New course in the Spring 2017
- Democarcy vs. Macroeconomics and the Problematic Legacy of European Integration
- Chasing Margaret
- Master of Arts in Germanic and Slavic Studies
- Alumna career path
- Staff Excellence Award
- A talk by Iceland's Ambassador to Canada
- SSHRC award
- Sessional positions for the Fall 2016 and Spring 2017
- New course: Island Literature
- International Poetry Day 2016
- Intensive Russian in the Summer 2016
- On the Edge graduate conference
- New Holocaust Remembrance book launch
- Who Killed the Soviet Union? Revisiting the Collapse of a Superpower
- Wired for Weirdness: How Fairy Tales Work Their Magic
- Dr. Schallie's interview with CBC's On the Island