Dear Colleagues,
Well, here it is tomorrow! The new academic year is upon us, with an odd mixture of new and old. Walking around campus already feels so completely different from last year, even as it feels a lot like years before. But not quite, of course: the pandemic continues, there are a lot more masks than there used to be, and we all need to be careful. Still, I hope that this term...
Fall 2021 Courses with Russia, East Europe, and Eurasian Content
Intersectionality in Focus: Fall 2021 Sessions
Illinois Global Institute Has Moved to Coble Hall
We Support You During COVID-19
Congratulations to the IGI and Center Directors for receiving a LAS Impact Award for supporting the development of online courses during the pandemic!
REEEC Director John Randolph was interviewed in a recent BBC article, "What will today's data tell future historians?" A repost of the article is below, and the original article (with images) can be found at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210819-what-will-todays-data-tell-future-historians...
Jamie Hendrickson completed her degree program this Spring 2021 semester, earning an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also earned a B.A. from Illinois in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures with a minor in History in 2019, graduating cum laude with Departmental...
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
- Congratulations to Jacob Bell (PhD Candidate in History) for winning the Best Graduate Student Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his paper “Soul-Brothers, Androphiles, and Eunuchs by Nature: Homosociability and Same-Sex Desire in Byzantine...
- Open Research Lab and Summer Research Lab alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help to shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Take a look at these 2020 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs: Scott...
- The Center for Global Studies (CGS) featured an article on their Global Currents Blog about the Big History Project, which is a collaboration between the Spurlock Museum and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), the European Union Center (EUC), CGS, and REEEC. A repost of the...
Calendar
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...
