Introducing our "Summer Adventures Series"! We have asked students and faculty to share with us their activities and escapades this summer. These stories show how we stay engaged and excited about the study and experience of the Slavic and East European world. 

Today's feature - Dr. Angela Brintlinger, Chair of the Department and Director of the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Check below for look at some of Dr. Brintlinger's adventures!

In May Prof. Brintlinger travelled to Warsaw, Poland for some meetings and to give a talk at the University of Warsaw on Chekhov and the Anglo-American short story. She met with all our Warsaw Fulbright alumni—Jarek Szczepański, Wojciech Lewandowski, and next year’s Fulbrighter Marko Babić—as well as the folks at the Polish Fulbright commission and other friends and colleagues across the city. A highlight was the fantastic special exhibit at Polin entitled "(post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt." The exhibit is on through the end of December so if anyone plans a trip to Warsaw this year, she highly recommends it. She also attended screenings at the DOCS Against Gravity Film Festival and scouted tours and locations for next year’s Global May Hungary study program (that despite its name goes to both Budapest AND Warsaw).

Prof. Brintlinger’s next stop was in Rome, where she checked in with the faculty of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs and presented her new book, Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature in a conversation with John Cabot University faculty on the JCU terrace, overlooking the Tiber River. Like other scholars of Russia who can no longer go to that country—it’s dangerous for Americans during this war and Prof. Brintlinger has also been personally banned by the Russian Federation—she next headed to Helsinki, where the Slavonic collections at the Finnish National Library satisfied her “archival appetite.”

Do you have any summer adventures you would like to share with us? Reach out to slavicdept@osu.edu or ernst.150@osu.edu for more info.

Keep tuned for more stories to be posted here and on our Socials!