2021-10-12
- Professor Valleri Robinson recently wrote an article for UPI, "Even in exile, Belarus' Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fights authoritarianism". Professor Robinson is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. A repost of the article is below, and the original article (with images) can be found...
2021-10-07 - By Felix Cowan (PhD Candidate, History) On September 30, 2021, REEEC faculty, students, and staff gathered online for a talk by Dr. Amanda Gregg (Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College) titled “Beyond ‘Backwardness’: New Research on Firms in Imperial Russia.” Dr. Gregg offered an overview of her research on late imperial Russian economic history, focusing onan...
2021-10-05 - Recently, Valleri Robinson, Associate Professor of Theatre at UIUC, has published two articles related to the political situation in Belarus. The first article was a review of a performance of Insulted. Belarus. that occurred over Zoom in November 2020. The performance was a part of an international reading series and was a reading of the play where the actors used small props, black...
2021-09-29 - REEEC Associate Director Maureen Marshall joined with other educational and non-profit organizations in an event announcing the creation of a Georgian Studies program at Harvard. “As some of our University of Illinois students have learned in recent years, it has been a real challenge to study Georgian and Georgia in the United States,” Marshall said. “I hope that this new center helps to shine a...- 2021-08-26 - 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...
2021-08-20 - 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-...
2021-05-21 - 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...
2021-05-13 - 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 and Rous’ian Religious Communities.” His prize includes an...- 2021-05-07 - 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 Kenworthy “The Name Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy,” in The Oxford Handbook of...
2021-04-30 - 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 article is below; to view the original, please see ...- 2021-04-27 - Fall 2021 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Please note: The courses below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the REEE region. Please see course explorer for additional classes. Area Studies Courses BCS 115: South Slavic Cultures Peter Wright TR 12:30 - 1:50 pm, 124 Burrill...
2021-04-21 - By Danielle Sekel (Musicology) Since 2015, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) has been working with Champaign County Head Start (Champaign and Savoy locations) to bring experiential learning opportunities to their early childhood education programs. Each month, I visit each Head Start location as a REEEC Graduate Assistant to introduce a particular country;...
2021-04-19 - Brian Yang is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and a 2021-2022 and 2020-2021 REEEC FLAS fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to the University of Illinois, Brian received his B.A. in 2017 from the University of California, Riverside, in Languages, concentrating on Russian and German, and his M.A. in 2019 from...
2021-04-15 - The Spring 2021 issue of the Illinois Global Institute’s newsletter featured an article concerning the planning and coordination of this semester’s Virtual Open Research Laboratory (VORL) by REEEC staff alongside the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) team. A repost of the article is below; to view the original, please see...
2021-04-09 - Tabitha Cochran is a Master’s student in REEES and Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a 2020-2021 REEEC FLAS fellow and will be a 2021-2022 EUC FLAS fellow. She received her B.A. in Russian Studies and International Studies from Macalester College in 2013. Her research focuses on Ukrainian nationalism at the turn of the 20th century,...