09/01/2023 - The Yaro Skalnik Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Endowment Fund was established in 2022 through a generous gift by Professor Carol Leff (Emerita, Department of Political Science), in...
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07/28/2023 - By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) Griffin Creech is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, and the 2023 recipient of the Fisher Fellow...
07/26/2023 - By Laurel Tollison As an MA student in Russian, East European, and Eurasian, I had the opportunity to assist in several different outreach events as REEEC’s outreach graduate...
07/07/2023 - By Ivan Cherniakov (PhD Student, Art History) How does citizenship function in an empire? How do different citizenship regimes shape populations in their borderlands? These were the...
06/06/2023 - Arts, Heritage, and Belonging: Armenian Transcultural Entanglements June 14 - 15, 2023 | 2023 Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Co-organizers: ...
06/01/2023 - Jonathan Phalen (BA, '23) has recently accepted a Fulbright/America for Bulgaria Foundation English teaching assistant award to teach in Bulgaria. Phalen graduated from U of I in May with degrees in...
06/01/2023 - The Games Studies and Design project “Playful by Design: Expanding the Transformative Potentials of Games@Illinois” has been selected as...
06/01/2023 - Open Research Laboratory and Summer Research Laboratory alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Find...
05/15/2023 - Congratulations to Tamara Pavlović (PhD Student, Anthropology) for receiving the Yaro Skalnik Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies...
04/11/2023 - REEEC was happy to host the Illinois ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian on March 13, 2023. The Olympiada brought over thirty high school Russian language students from The Noble Academy, Pritzker...
04/06/2023 - Richard Esbenshade, a REEEC Research Associate, is the host of the Wednesday World Beat program on WEFT 90.1 FM. As the host of this program on the Central Illinois community radio station,...
03/28/2023 - Each Spring, REEEC invites submissions for the Yaro Skalnik Prize for the best undergraduate and graduate essays in Russian, East European, or Eurasian Studies at Illinois. Essays from all...
03/08/2023 - The Midwest Slavic Association (MWSA) and The Ohio State University's Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) will host the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State in...
01/24/2023 - REEEC is delighted to announce the recipients of the special Spring semester undergraduate FLAS fellowship: Camille Dolce (Political Science) – Russian Melanie Martinovic...
12/06/2022 - The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) announces a special Spring 2023 semester FLAS competition for undergraduate students. Students enrolling in an intermediate or advanced...
