2024-09-09 - This fall, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomes a distinguished cohort of Ukrainian scholars as part of the BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program (UAFP), an exchange initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and...

2024-08-19 - By Karina Povsteva (PhD student, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Tori Paige is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, The Ohio State University, and the 2024 recipient of the Fisher Fellow Award. The Fisher Fellow Award offers support to junior scholars to attend the Summer Research Lab at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of...

2024-07-16 - Under the auspices of the mobilization drive in the 1930s, Soviet media started actively encouraging women to participate in armed forces as civilian soldiers. As World War II raged, in April 1942 women could officially enlist in combat positions. As the war ended, the Soviet legislation prohibited women from future enlistment, the decree lasted until the breakdown of the USSR. The recipient of...

2024-07-11 - The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced a search for a new Associate Director. This position is the senior full-time staff position at REEEC.  The Associate Director provides academic leadership and staff supervision for the Center, acts as its chief grant and financial officer, directs our interdisciplinary BA...

2024-07-02 - The Illinois Global Institute is pleased to announce the IGI Summer 2024 Global Educators Workshop. This workshop features two days of round-table discussions and keynote addresses focused on the theme of “Critical Thinking in the Technological World.” Educators from across the globe are invited to engage in dynamic discussions, exploring the intersection of critical thinking and technology in...

2024-06-25 - We extend our congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Yaro Skalnik Essay Prizes and Grant. The recipients were presented with these awards at the REEEC Spring Reception on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.   Louise Shannon (BS Student, Mathematics) was the recipient of the Yaro Skalnik Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay in Russian, East European,...

2024-04-24 - We are pleased to announce that Meruyert (Mia) Alibi has joined our program as our new Title VIII Visiting Project Coordinator. Mia holds degrees in Finance and Management from the University of South Florida.  For the past two years, she served as a Project Manager at New Age Clinic, a medical firm in Astana, Kazakhstan, before moving to Champaign this past January. At REEEC...

2024-04-22 - Open Research Laboratory and Summer Research Laboratory alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Find below the 2023 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs:   Barbara Allen Allen, Barbara. 2023. “Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917.” In ...

2024-04-11 - Prof. Buchanan is one of fifteen talented scholars from Eastern Europe and North America convening for a two-week residency hosted by the American University in Bulgaria The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is proud to announce that Donna A. Buchanan will participate in the 2024 ...

2024-04-02 - On April 2, the Lyric Theatre @ Illinois presents the highly anticipated academic world premiere of Black Square. An absurdist fable commemorating the October Revolution, Black Square is, as described by its creators, “a tragicomic love story that mixes intellectual traditions of Russian avant-garde and the fast pacing of an action thriller.” Danielle Sekel, Outreach and...

2024-04-01 - 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 Studies   BCS 115: South Slavic Cultures Peter Wright 12:...

2024-01-22 - Call for Applications: 2024 Research Training Workshop At the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign June 14-15, 2024 Moderators: Professor Anna Whittington (Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Dr. Nataliia Laas (Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs) ...

2023-12-19 -   REEEC joins the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva and the United States government in expressing extreme concern about the dire humanitarian and human rights crisis impacting the Armenian residents of  Nagorno-Karabakh and those who have fled the region.  In its ...

2023-12-15 - REEEC faculty affiliate David Cooper (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Illinois) was recently featured by the University of Illinois News Bureau in an article by Jodi Heckel. Read more about Professor Cooper's recent book, "The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth" (Cornell University Press), and how it investigates the role of...

2023-09-01 - 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...