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Are European Human Rights and Rule of Law in Crisis?: Roundtable and Discussion

01/15/2021 - 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...

Professor Valeria Sobol Has Been Selected as LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar for 2021-2022

01/14/2021 - 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. ...

Diana Kurkovsky West - New Directions Lecture

New Directions Lecture with Diana Kurkovsky West: "From 'Big Data' Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet Past for the Post-Covid-19 Future"

01/14/2021 - 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...

Professor Harriet Murav Received an Honorable Mention from the MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for Her Book "David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity"

01/13/2021 - 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...

New Directions Lecture with Emily Wang and Korey Garibaldi: “Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin's Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism”

12/15/2020 - 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...

Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: David Cooper, "Anatomy of a Successful Forgery: The Czech Manuscripts”

12/15/2020 - 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...

Update on the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois

11/16/2020 - 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...

Spring 2021 Courses with Russia, East Europe, and Eurasian Content

11/13/2020 - 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. ...

FLAS Information Session for Graduate Students

11/06/2020 - 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...

Publicly Available Online Curriculum from REEEC

04/10/2020 - 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-...

Noontime Scholars Lecture with Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass: “Why Weak States Balance: National Mobilization and Georgia’s Post-Cold War Security Strategy”

04/10/2020 - 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...

Community Outreach: Russian Language and Culture Lessons at Leal Elementary

04/07/2020 - By Serenity Stanton Orengo This Spring, I had the opportunity to do twice-weekly Russian language and culture lessons at Leal Elementary School in Urbana as part of their after-...