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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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—...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...