2021-12-10 - Professor Valleri Robinson recently wrote an article for Public Seminar, " Belarus Needs Our Help: The United States must stand boldly against the Lukashenka regime and its abuse of human rights". Professor Robinson is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. A repost of the article is below,...
2021-12-10 - Michael Finke, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the former Department Head, has published a new book which analyzes Chekhov’s major stories, plays, and nonfiction in the context of his life, entitled Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings...
2021-11-15 - Eugene Avrutin, professor of history with an affiliate appointment in the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, has been named the Tobor Family Professor in Jewish History. The Tobor Professorship was created in 2005 to support excellence in the study of Jewish European history. Avrutin is a...- 2021-10-15 - Spring 2022 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...
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...
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...
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...- 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,...
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 ...
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...
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...- 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...
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...- 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...