Albert Einstein once said: “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” One of the things that most attracted me to UIUC in 2016 was its library. It was later that I would come to learn about its impressive Slavic collection and the outstanding Slavic Reference Service, and even later that I would graduate from the iSchool and learn by heart that the...
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Spring 2021 Virtual Open Research Laboratory (January 25 - May 5, 2021): Associates List & VORL Events Calendar
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REEEC New Directions Lecture: Holly Case, "The Noblesse Oblige of Megalomania: The Hungarian History of an Idea" on March 18 at 4:00 PM CST
Race in Focus: Spring 2021 Sessions
REEEC Director John Randolph (Associate Professor of History) and REEEC faculty affiliate Lilya Kaganovsky (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature) had contributed with their thought-provoking articles on Russian cultural performativity to the edited collection ...
REEEC faculty affiliate Richard Tempest (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) was recently interviewed by the University of Illinois News Bureau about Alexei Navalny's arrest and prison sentence, and the huge protests across Russia. To read the original article, please see...
Faculty Spotlight: REEEC Faculty Affiliate Eda Derhemi (Teaching Associate Professor of French and Italian) Recognized for Translating Albanian Novel into Italian
REEEC faculty affiliate Eda Derhemi (Teaching Associate Professor of French and Italian) and Francesco Ferrari (PhD candidate in French and Italian) were recognized for translating the Albanian novel “Miele sul Coltello" into Italian. They both won the competition for the Fund of the Translation...
More Department News
- By Tabitha Cochran (MA Student, REEES and LIS) On October 27th, REEEC hosted a virtual roundtable, co-sponsored by the European Union Center, entitled “Are European Human Rights and Rule of Law in Crisis?” This event was organized to kick off the Legal Studies facet of the REEEC...
- By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES) As a part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series in Area Studies Informatics, on October 15 Diana Kurkovsky West gave an online lecture entitled: “From ‘Big Data’ Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet past for the post-...
- REEEC faculty affiliate Valeria Sobol (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) has been selected as LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar for the academic year 2021-2022. Each year, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards those faculty that have shown ...
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SLAV 505This 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 122A 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 201Interdisciplinary 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 461This 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...
