The priority deadline for CESSI 2024 may have passed, but you still have until April 1 to finish your application and apply for funding – no fooling! In addition to eight weeks of intensive language learning, CESSI and its partners at the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) provide rich cultural and professional development programming, including a student conference and the LCTL Career Fair. Read on for more information!

The Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship deadline is February 14th. For additional information and application details, click here and here.

The WISLI Tuition Scholarship's (WTS) deadline is February 21. For more information and to apply, click here.

Save the date for the WISLI Student Conference on June 29, 2024! Take advantage of this great academic opportunity by showing off your research and networking with other scholars in various areas of study! This is a hybrid event, taking place in-person at the UW-Madison Pyle Center and via Zoom. In-person and distance learners are encouraged to participate. Attendance at the conference is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

 Interested in learning more about how you can continue your language learning after your intensive study at WISLI? Check out Dr. Adeola Agoke’s WISLI Student Workshop: Developing Strategies for Sustained Language Learning at the link below!

A variety of resources are available on our website, including language and cultural resources, CESSI policies and procedures, UW-Madison campus resources and housing information, and more!

For resource links, see the drop-down menu under Resources on our website.

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute was founded in 2011 by a consortium of international and area studies centers at major U.S. universities. We're grateful for the support of these current consortium member institutions: Columbia University's Harriman Institute, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Michigan State University's Asian Studies Center and Center for European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center and Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California-Berkeley's Institute of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, and Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, University of Kansas' Center for East Asian Studies and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Washington's Center for Global Studies and East Asia Center, and University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia and Center for East Asian Studies.