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,...
2021-04-05 - By Jamie Hendrickson (MA Student, REEES) On March 18, 2021, as part of the REEEC New Directions Lecture series, Dr. Holly Case gave an online lecture entitled: “The Noblesse Oblige of Megalomania: The Hungarian History of an Idea.” Case, a Professor of History at Brown University, is a historian of modern Europe whose work focuses on the relationships between nineteenth and...
2021-03-26 - This Spring semester, we welcomed Dr. Jasmina Savic as a Visiting Scholar and a Programming and Projects Assistant at REEEC. Dr. Savic holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Illinois. While here as a Visiting Scholar, she will be expanding on her dissertation, “Porno Ludens: Soviet Literary Pornography, 1970s – 1990s,” which focused on the emergence of Russian literary pornography...
2021-03-17 - By Tabitha Cochran (MA Student, REEES and LIS) On February 18th, 2021, REEEC and the EUC hosted Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton University for a talk entitled “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland.” This event was part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series (CMS) in Legal Studies and was attended by nearly 100 people from the University of...
2021-03-13 - The editorial assistantship at Slavic Review provides graduate students with the opportunity to engage with leading scholars in our field and, just as importantly, demystifies the world of academic publishing. Editorial assistants are involved in every stage of getting articles published— from preparing new submissions to be sent out for peer review to meticulously checking footnotes...
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...