Eugene Avrutin, professor of history with an affiliate appointment in the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, has been named the Tobor Family Professor in Jewish History. The Tobor Professorship was created in 2005 to support excellence in the study of Jewish European history. Avrutin is a renowned scholar of Eastern European Jewish history and the history of Russia, an innovative teacher...
REEEC Director John Randolph was Interviewed in BBC Article, "What will today's data tell future historians?"
Call for Applications: Spring 2022 Open Research Laboratory at Illinois (Priority Application Deadline: Dec. 3, 2021)
Spring 2022 Courses with Russia, East Europe, and Eurasian Content
Apply for MA/REEES (Deadline: Jan.1, 2022) and Joint MA/REEES and MS/LIS (Deadline: Dec.1, 2021) at University of Illinois
Traveling the World from Home: Virtual Outreach Programming for Local Pre-Schoolers
FLAS Fellowship Information Sessions
- Spring 2022 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Please note: The courses below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the REEE region. Please see course explorer for additional classes. Area Studies Courses ARTH 443: The Russian Avant-Garde: Revolutionary Forms and Socialist Norms...
Professor Valleri Robinson recently wrote an article for UPI, "Even in exile, Belarus' Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fights authoritarianism". Professor Robinson is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. A repost of the article is below, and the original article (with images) can be found...
Alumni Spotlight: REEEC FLAS Fellow Alumni Profile: Sarah Phillips
By Jamie Hendrickson (MA, REEES) We would like to highlight Sarah Phillips, a former FLAS fellow in Russian and Ukrainian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1994 to 1996. While a student at Illinois, Sarah earned her M.A. in Anthropology in 1997 and completed...
More Department News
- By Felix Cowan (PhD Candidate, History) On September 30, 2021, REEEC faculty, students, and staff gathered online for a talk by Dr. Amanda Gregg (Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College) titled “Beyond ‘Backwardness’: New Research on Firms in Imperial Russia.” Dr....
- Recently, Valleri Robinson, Associate Professor of Theatre at UIUC, has published two articles related to the political situation in Belarus. The first article was a review of a performance of Insulted. Belarus. that occurred over Zoom in November 2020. The performance was a part of an...
- REEEC Associate Director Maureen Marshall joined with other educational and non-profit organizations in an event announcing the creation of a Georgian Studies program at Harvard. “As some of our University of Illinois students have learned in recent years, it has been a real challenge to study...
Calendar
REES 201 - Spring 2022REES 201 is designed to be an introductory, interdisciplinary course for students interested in the regions of Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe. The course will focus on central issues in Eastern Europe in the modern era, offering a beginning view of the region’s history, politics, culture...
SLAV 525, Section G - Spring 2022Since its discovery in the late eighteenth century, the Slovo o polku Igoreve (the Igor Tale) has occupied a central but isolated place in Russian literary history. Received as a secular national epic, Slovo stood out as unique in the canon of medieval Russian literature and as...
ARTH 443 - Spring 2022What happens to art’s forms and institutions in a socialist society? What kind of patron is the working class, the public, or the state? Can art be revolutionary? If so, what does it look like, and where does it exert its power? In this course, we will look at the ways that artists strove to answer...
SLAV 525 - Fall 2021This course will begin with the Golden Age of Soviet cinema: the period 1924-1929 during which Soviet filmmakers produced some of the greatest films in the history of cinema. Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Dziga Vertov, Esfir Shub, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko became known the world over for...
TURK 270/ANTH 272/GLBL 272/SAME 272 - Fall 2021As a country located at the crossroads of Asia, Europe and Africa, Turkey has always been under the spotlight. In this course, we will study the dynamic relationship between language and culture in Ottoman and modern Turkey through a timely analysis of its transition from a long-lasting empire to a...
BCS 115 - Fall 2021Exploration of South Slavic cultures in the historically rich and complex region sometimes referred to as "the Balkans," focusing particularly on those groups found within the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Critical look at the traditional view of the region as the crossroads or the...
SLAV 505 - Spring 2021This class is designed to give you a foundation in the development of Russian from its genesis in Proto-Slavic up to the modern-day language. The focus of the developmental period will be the 9th to 11th centuries, though the course touches on aspects of Slavic grammar and stylistics that occurred...
RUSS 122 - Spring 2021A survey of the interactions between key African American figures and Russian culture, in a historical and socio-political context. The course explores the Russian-sourced cultural transfers that influenced the Black American experience; and examines its impact on people and events in the Russian...
REES 201 - Spring 2021Interdisciplinary survey of Eastern Europe focusing mostly on the 20th century to the present, exploring issues of nationalism, socialism, post socialism and EU accession. Focuses on Central Europe and the Balkans, but also references the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Students will...
IS 461 - Spring 2021This course is intended to provide all necessary tools for the conduct of effective research in the field of Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies for both scholars and librarians. Relying on the rich bibliographic tradition of Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, the...
