Day East Europe Day Student Groups Slavic Club Central Asian Assoc . Graduate Student Assoc . Nawriz is a March event. A Day in East Europe, based on our long-standing Russia Day, introduces interdisciplinary topics centered around the various cultures of East Europe to high school students and their teachers. UW-Madison graduate students and professors lead lessons on topics such as Bulgarian music, contemporary Polish society, Czech language, and South Slavic folklore.
Funds are available for school districts to defray bus transportation costs.
Russia Day events include interactive language classes at beginning and intermediate levels, and a series of mini-lectures presented by UW faculty and graduate students on Russian language, history, culture, politics, and economics. Some funds are generally made available to help defray bus transportation costs. The course blended presentations by nationally recognized experts on topics related to the political, economic, and social transformations taking place in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. WIOC also seeks to pool efforts for teacher training workshops and other programs to benefit faculty training and research.