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    New Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

    Please join us for our next New Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture, "Public Opinion in Wartime Russia: Business as Usual or Crisis of Confidence," by Eli Feiman on Thursday, October 5 at 12:30 PM in 306 Coble Hall. For more details, click 'Learn More.' 

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    HIST 354 20th Century Europe in Prague

    History is best studied in the spaces where it was made. During the program, students will explore one of Europe’s major cities and examine the role of literature, opera, and art in society, the rise of mass ideologies, as well as the dissolution of empires, and the creation of nation-states. 

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    Noontime Scholars Lecture: Robert Collis

    Please join us for the Noontime Scholars Lecture, "Unorthodox Visions: Magnetic Somnambulism, Clairvoyance and Prophecy among the Petersburg Nobility, 1820s-1830s," by Robert Collis on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 12:00 pm in 306 Coble Hall. For more details, click 'Learn More.'

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    Our Master's Degree Programs

    Our two-year M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies is designed for students planning academic careers as well as for those who would like to pursue careers in government, NGOs, business, the media, international law, private foundations, or cultural exchange. We also offer a joint M.A./M.S. degree with the School of Information Sciences.

     

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    Russia's War on Ukraine: Educational and Humanitarian Resources
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  • REEEC Announces Yaro Skalnik Russian, East Europe, and Eurasian Center Endowment Fund

    The Yaro Skalnik Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Endowment Fund was established in 2022 through a generous gift by Professor Carol Leff (Emerita, Department of Political Science), in honor of her father.  It provides small research grants to undergraduate and graduate students, seeking to develop or present their original research in the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian...
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  • Griffin with an ancient burial marker during a research trip in Khentii province, eastern Mongolia, 2022

    Interview with the 2023 Fisher Fellow, Griffin Creech

    By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) Griffin Creech is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, and the 2023 recipient of the Fisher Fellow Award. The Fisher Fellow Award offers support to junior scholars to attend the Summer Research Lab (SRL) at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois in the spirit...
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    REEEC Outreach Spotlight: Orchard Downs Kid's Club

    By Laurel Tollison As an MA student in Russian, East European, and Eurasian, I had the opportunity to assist in several different outreach events as REEEC’s outreach graduate assistant. One of our regular programs included monthly visits to the Orchard Downs Community Center to bring multicultural outreach programming to their after-school enrichment program for elementary...
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    Student Spotlight: REEEC M.A. Student Profile: Eden Zorne

    Eden is a first-year REEES MA student originally from Northern California. She earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto (Canada), and majored in European Affairs and Slavic Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Russian. She has been studying Russian since high school, and began...
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  • REEEC Fisher Fellow Lecture: Griffin Creech, "Buriats Beyond Borders: Making and Unmaking Multi-Layered Citizens in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1890-1938"
    By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) How does citizenship function in an empire? How do different citizenship regimes shape populations in their borderlands? These were the questions that Griffin Creech—the recipient of the 2023...
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  • Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements | 2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements June 14 - 15, 2023 | 2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Co-organizers: Donna A. Buchanan (Professor, Music, Anthropology, Slavic Languages & Literatures); ...
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  • Games Studies and Design Program Receives Investment for Growth Program Funding
    The Games Studies and Design project “Playful by Design: Expanding the Transformative Potentials of Games@Illinois” has been selected as one of 11 proposals to be supported through the...
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    POL 245

    Survey of Polish Literature

    Critical survey, in translation, of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century; special attention given to the works in their cultural context. 11:00 am - 12:20 pm, 119 English Building Instructor: George Gasyna  
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    HIST 356

    The Modern Balkans through Literature and Film

    History of the creation and development of the independent Balkan states during the 19th and 20th centuries. Special attention is given to Balkan nationalism, its roots, evolution and various manifestations. Other topics cover the modernization of the rural societies, ethnic conflict and/or...
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    REES 550

    Seminar in REEE Studies

    Interdisciplinary seminar involving faculty in a number of disciplines. The course examines Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia and the methodologies of its study through questions of identities, cultural values, and change. Taught in conjunction with...
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Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Illinois Global Institute
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

104 Coble Hall
801 S. Wright Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820

Email: reec@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 333-1244
Fax: (217) 333-1582

 

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