Spring 2021 Events
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Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?) Film ScreeningDate: Jan 27, 2021 The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies is honored to host three incredible speakers and one incredible film on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. |
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ASEEES - Pitt Race in Focus Series (Spring 2021): "New Directions in Research: Russian Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries" SeminarDate: Feb 5, 2021 This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or on communities of color to the center stage. |
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Emily Roche (Brown University), “The Uncultivated Garden: Architecture, Architects, and the State in Interwar Poland" LectureDate: Feb 9, 2021 In this talk, Emily Roche examines the relationship between architecture, architects, and the state in interwar Poland. She focuses specifically on the relationship between the modernist idea and the concept of the nation state, modernism's contribution to national modernization, biographical studies of Polish architects, and the role of anti-Semitism in shaping interwar architecture. |
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“Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Rule of Law in Europe" LectureDate: Feb 11, 2021 Professor Jessica Greenberg will facilitate the discussion based on selected readings. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are all welcome. |
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"New Directions in Research: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in the American Arctic and Siberia" SeminarDate: Feb 12, 2021 This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or on communities of color to the center stage. |
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International Dissertation Research During the Pandemic: A ForumDate: Feb 18, 2021 What pressures have graduate students faced while trying to conduct their international research in the past year? How can universities respond, and what lessons can we save for the future? Join us as graduate students and faculty reflect on these important questions, based on their experiences in the past year. |
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REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies Lecture: Kim Lane Scheppele, “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland"Date: Feb 18, 2021 Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Scheppele's work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. |
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A Brave New World? Discussing the EU and the U.S. after the Rise of Nativist Populism, COVID, and Brexit with Kostas Kourtikakis, Carol Leff, and Brian GainesDate: Feb 19, 2021 This panel takes stock of relations between the EU and the U.S. at a pivotal moment in transatlantic relations, as well as in the work of those in the U of I scholarly community who study the role of ongoing dynamics of institutions under pressure and identities in contact, two research and teaching programs of the EU Center’s current Jean Monnet Center of Excellence grant. |
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ASEEES - Pitt Race in Focus Series (Spring 2021): "Talking About Whiteness: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia" SymposiumDate: Feb 19, 2021 This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
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Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships Information SessionDate: Feb 19, 2021 The Graduate College Office of External Fellowships will hold a Fulbright-Hays information session over Zoom on Friday, February 19 from 3:30 to 5:00. |
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REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Lauren McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Citizen Oversight of the Legal System in Russia”Date: Feb 23, 2021 This project examines the various ways that Russian citizens are involved in oversight, including monitoring police, protests, and courts; educating ordinary citizens to provide legal representation for people or themselves in administrative and criminal cases; and encouraging exposure of misconduct with cell phone videos and social media. |
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Doctoral Dissertation WorkshopDate: Feb 25, 2021 Topics include: Conducting a literature review, publishing, information management, writing in REEES, research support, peer mentoring, and research trips. |
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ASEEES - Pitt Race in Focus Series (Spring 2021): "#BLM: Reception in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia"Date: Feb 26th, 2021 This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or on communities of color to the center stage. |
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Spurlock Sunday Family Program: Eastern European International Women's Day CelebrationDate: Feb 28, 2021 There will be crafts and short lessons on the Russian language, along with highlights from the Museum’s collection and a Russian story told by Spurlock's resident storyteller and assistant director of education, Kim Sheahan Sanford. |
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REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Felix Cowan, "Narratives of Backwardness and Modernization in the Late Imperial Russian Penny Press" LectureDate: Mar 2, 2021 This talk explores how late imperial Russia's kopeck newspapers constructed images of Russian backwardness and Western modernity, and how they instrumentalized those images to argue that Russia's future lay in imitating the West. |
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International Women's Day 2021: "13 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories"Date: Mar 8, 2021 The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in collaboration with Humanities Research Institute hosts an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. |
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Race, Human Rights, and Populism in Poland: A SymposiumDate: Mar 9, 2021 This symposium brings together a set of cross-disciplinary experts prepared to explore this contradiction in Poland as an erstwhile would-be vanguard of liberal democracy and now fulcrum for an illiberal turn. |
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REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Yelena Severina (UCLA), “Theater for the Revolution: Tableaux Vivants in Early Soviet Russia" LectureDate: Mar 9, 2021 Dr. Severina's talk will briefly cover their history but will focus on revolutionary tableaux of Early Soviet Russia. |
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UCL Book Launch Talk and Q&A: Maria Todorova, "The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s-1920s" LectureDate: Mar 10, 2021 Maria Todorova will talk about her latest book, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s–1920s (Bloomsbury Academic 2020). She will discuss the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, exploring the period of the Second International. |
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REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Larisa Kurtovic (University of Ottawa), "A city on the water, without water: Politics of water infrastructures in postwar Sarajevo" LectureDate: Mar 11, 2021 To understand the dense affective response generated by infrastructural breakdown, in this presentation, Dr. Larisa Kurtović draws on archival and ethnographic research focused on water procuring practices that punctuated everyday life during the 1992-1995 Siege of Sarajevo, and the ways in which memories of this suffering generate new political effects. |
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REEEC New Directions Lecture: Holly Case, "The Noblesse Oblige of Megalomania: The Hungarian History of an Idea" LectureDate: Mar 18, 2021 During the Second World War, a Hungarian madman wrote to Tsar Boris of Bulgaria to ask for his eleven-year-old daughter's hand in marriage. The man explained that he had found a way to put an end to the Second World War such that both sides and all nations could emerge as victors. |
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REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Evgeny Grishin, “From the Age of Correction to the Age of Schism: Religious Dissent and the Language of Exclusion in Early Modern Russia” LectureDate: Mar 23. 2021 The project Dr. Grishin is pursuing during the VORL program is developing his dissertation into a book manuscript dedicated to the role of language in the identification and consequent persecution of religious dissent, specifically of Russian religious groups known collectively as the “Schism” (Raskol), or the Old Belief (staroverie). |
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Conversation with Former MEP Georgi Pirinski (Bulgarian Socialist Party) MeetingDate: Mar 31, 2021 Please join the EU Center on Wednesday, March 31st, at 12 PM CDT for a moderated conversation with Georgi Pirinski, Bulgarian politician and Former Member of the European Parliament.
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REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies: Workshop with Forensic ArchitectureDate: Apr 1, 2021 This workshop will be a chance to learn more about the innovative investigative methods of Forensic Architecture (FA), and an initial step in bringing various scholars of campus together to consider FA-style research clusters and collaborations on our campus. |
Fall 2020 Events