2021-03-10
- By Kit Condill (REEES Librarian, University Library)
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s wide-ranging effects on academic year 2020-2021, the University Library has continued to make major REEES acquisitions in print and electronic formats, across a variety of disciplines. For example, Library users now have access to Brill's new Bibliography of the history and...
2021-03-03 - Albert Einstein once said: “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” One of the things that most attracted me to UIUC in 2016 was its library. It was later that I would come to learn about its impressive Slavic collection and the outstanding Slavic Reference Service, and even later that I would graduate from the iSchool and learn by heart that the...
2021-02-27 - REEEC Director John Randolph (Associate Professor of History) and REEEC faculty affiliate Lilya Kaganovsky (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature) had contributed with their thought-provoking articles on Russian cultural performativity to the edited collection ...
2021-02-12 - REEEC faculty affiliate Richard Tempest (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) was recently interviewed by the University of Illinois News Bureau about Alexei Navalny's arrest and prison sentence, and the huge protests across Russia. To read the original article, please see...
2021-01-15 - By Tabitha Cochran (MA Student, REEES and LIS) On October 27th, REEEC hosted a virtual roundtable, co-sponsored by the European Union Center, entitled “Are European Human Rights and Rule of Law in Crisis?” This event was organized to kick off the Legal Studies facet of the REEEC Critical Methods Series (CMS) and had over 40 participants. Four panelists from the University of...
2021-01-14 - By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES) As a part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series in Area Studies Informatics, on October 15 Diana Kurkovsky West gave an online lecture entitled: “From ‘Big Data’ Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet past for the post-Covid-19 future.” West, currently a visiting lecturer of history at Auburn University, focuses her...
2021-01-14 - REEEC faculty affiliate Valeria Sobol (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures) has been selected as LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar for the academic year 2021-2022. Each year, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards those faculty that have shown exemplary scholarship and teaching amongst those being promoted to Professor. Among...
2021-01-13 - REEEC faculty affiliate Harriet Murav (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature) has received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association (MLA) Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for her book David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity, published by Indiana University Press. The prize...
2020-12-15 - By Quinn O'Dowd (PhD Student, Sociology) On Tuesday, September 29th, Professor David Cooper (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois) gave a lecture entitled “Anatomy of a Successful Forgery: The Czech Manuscripts” as part of the Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. This virtual lecture...
2020-12-15 - By Justin Balcor (PhD Student, Musicology) On Thursday, September 17, as part of the 2020-2021 REEEC New Directions Lecture series, Dr. Korey Garibaldi and Dr. Emily Wang, both from the University of Notre Dame, presented a fascinating joint-lecture entitled “Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin's Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism...- 2020-11-16 - For over forty years, the University of Illinois has hosted our annual Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia (SRL). This program is supported in part by a generous grant from the U.S. Department of State through its Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). With renewed support from Title...
- 2020-11-13 - Please find a list of Spring 2021 courses with content on the REEES region. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and you may find additional courses in course explorer. Spring 2021 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Note: The courses listed below are not an...
2020-11-06 - Upcoming information session for students interested in applying for Summer 2021 and AY 2021-2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships on Dec. 2, 4:00-5:00 p.m. CST *Virtual Session II for Graduate Students will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Please register...
2020-04-10 - On March 10, as part of the Noontime Scholars Lecture series, Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass presented a talk on balance of power theory entitled “Why Weak States Balance: National Mobilization and Georgia’s Post-Cold War Security Strategy.” A Ph.D. candidate in political science from the University of Kentucky, specializing in international relations and comparative politics, Tsintsadze-Maass’s...- 2020-04-10 - Looking for activities for children who are home from school? Learn about Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia! REEEC has publicly available curriculum on our region for students ranging from pre-school age to high school: curricula and lesson plans. To access each curriculum, please fill out a simple webform for our grant reporting records. Once you submit the form,...