The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the School of Music hosted "For Ukraine: An Artistic Tribute" on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022. This event showcased several performances and exhibits across campus related to the arts, culture, and music of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian melodies...
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REEEC hosts "For Ukraine: An Artistic Tribute" with School of Music
On May 3, 2022, the American Research Institute of South Caucasus (ARISC) and REEEC hosted an event entitled, “The State of South Caucasus Language Instruction in the U.S.: A Virtual Workshop.” This virtual panel brought together instructors of Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian with researchers, educators, and administrators to discuss the state of South Caucasus language instruction in the U.S...
On Tuesday, April 26th, 2022, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the School of Music hosted the event “For Ukraine: An Artistic Tribute.” This event showcased several performances and exhibits across campus related to the arts, culture, and music of Ukraine. Those present were able to visit exhibits on display at both the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and the Music and...
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...
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- 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 2021 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs: Barbara C....
- 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. Areas...
- REEES alumnus Terrell Jermaine Starr has been reporting on the war in Ukraine from Kyiv. Starr travelled to Ukraine to work on a tourism business and started covering the Russian invasion. He has appeared on...
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REES 200Eurasia, geographically between the East and the West, encompasses 11 time zones and over 100 different ethnic groups. Its multicultural complexity and political diversity over recent centuries have made it a rich source for the study of political, economic, and social change. This...
MUS 418/518This interdisciplinary course explores the implication of music in politics, nation-building, regime change, conflict, and resistance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, with particular attention to the Maidan revolutions and current war in Ukraine. Course topics...
REES 495/550This course introduces students to important concepts and approaches of area studies research, interdisciplinarity, and theoretical frameworks in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES). Interdisciplinary seminar involving faculty in a number of disciplines. The course examines the...
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...
