Two upcoming information sessions for students interested in applying for Summer 2023 and AY 2023-2024 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships:
Virtual Session I will be Monday, November 28, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.
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Noontime Scholars Lecture: Ailuna UtegenovaJoin us for our next Noontime Scholars Lecture "Eurasian Integration After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Kazakhstan's Policy," by Ailuna Utegenova (Assistant Professor, Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan) on Tuesday, November 29 at 12:00 PM in 306 Coble. For more details, click 'Learn More.'
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information SessionsLearn about foreign language study opportunities through FLAS at the virtual information session on Monday, November 28th at 4:00 PM CST, or through an in-person session on Tuesday, December 6 at 4:00 PM CST.
New Directions Lecture: Scott GehlbachPlease join us for a New Directions Lecture "Contact, Threat, and Violence During Political Upheaval: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution," by Scott Gehlbach (Professor, Department of Political Science and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago) on Friday, December 2 at 3:00 PM in Room 404, David Kinley Hall. Click 'learn more' for full details.
Open Research Laboratory Call for ApplicationsPriority application deadline: December 7, 2022
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) and the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) at the University of Illinois are happy to announce a new call for applications to the Open Research Laboratory (ORL) program. The ORL provides research support for graduate and post-graduate level research on Central and East Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union. We will provide support for both in-person and virtual associateships for scholars to conduct short-term research concerning all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
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Spring 2023 Courses with Russia, East Europe, and Eurasian Content
Russia's War on Ukraine: Educational and Humanitarian Resources
Spring 2023 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Note: The courses listed below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the REEE region. Please see course explorer for additional classes. *Check with Advisor or FLAS Coordinator whether the course will fulfill area studies course requirements Area...
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center would like to extend a warm welcome Dr. Anna Whittington, who has joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor of history. Her research specializes in the history of citizenship and inequality across Soviet Eurasia. Dr. Whittington holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan (2018), an MA from Stanford...
Student Spotlight: REEEC Graduating Student Profile: Cassie Ward (MA, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; MS, Library and Information Science)
Cassie Ward completed her degree programs this Spring 2022 semester, earning an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She earned her B.A.s in History and Psychology from Southern Illinois...
More Department News
- Richard Byington is a first-year graduate student in the joint Master of Arts in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies/Master of Science in Library and Information Science program and a 2022-2023 REEEC FLAS fellow, studying Russian. Before coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-...
- The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center extends a warm welcome to visiting scholar Dr. Joanna Kula, who will be affiliated with REEEC as a visiting scholar for the 2022 Fall semester. Dr. Kula is a scholar of Russian literature working in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University...
- Fall 2022 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Note: The courses listed below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the REEE region. Please see course explorer for additional classes. ...
Calendar
HIST 260What is Russia? This survey course explores this question through the history of the peoples and territories of medieval Rus’, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, from ninth century to the present. Key themes include how “Russia” has been understood and defined, both...
SOC 366Examines the sociological realities of state socialism and postsocialism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. 01:00PM - 01:50PM, MWF, 259 English Building Instructor: Zsuzsa Gille Image source: Instructor's photograph
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...
SLAV 417Historical grammar, origin, and development of the East Slavic/Russian literary language, survey of literary genres of Old Russian Literature. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; for undergraduates, completion of or placement beyond RUSS 301-RUSS 302; or, consent of instructor. Instructor: ...
