Congrats to Jenya Mironava (Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Natasha Kadlec (G-3) for organizing the first ever series of sessions dedicated to Belarus at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) held on March 7-10 in Boston!
 
Belarusian language, literature and culture are too often excluded from Slavic curricula and from discussions about the need to decolonize Slavic studies. The NeMLA sessions, titled “Diversifying Slavic Studies: Making Room for Belarusian Voices,” created an opportunity for scholars to reflect on the ways in which these issues can be addressed.
 
The interdisciplinary roundtable and panel brought together twelve Belarusists from New England, Chicago, California, Canada, Germany, and Poland. Topics included literature and translation studies, theater, linguistics, higher education and pedagogy, publishing and samizdat, library and archival studies.