2021-05-21
- Jamie Hendrickson completed her degree program this Spring 2021 semester, earning an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also earned a B.A. from Illinois in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures with a minor in History in 2019, graduating cum laude with Departmental...
2021-05-13 - Congratulations to Jacob Bell (PhD Candidate in History) for winning the Best Graduate Student Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for his paper “Soul-Brothers, Androphiles, and Eunuchs by Nature: Homosociability and Same-Sex Desire in Byzantine and Rous’ian Religious Communities.” His prize includes an...- 2021-05-07 - Open Research Lab and Summer Research Lab alumni publish articles, book chapters, and monographs that help to shape the field of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Take a look at these 2020 publications that have resulted from research conducted at the Research Labs: Scott Kenworthy “The Name Glorifiers (Imiaslavie) Controversy,” in The Oxford Handbook of...
2021-04-30 - The Center for Global Studies (CGS) featured an article on their Global Currents Blog about the Big History Project, which is a collaboration between the Spurlock Museum and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), the European Union Center (EUC), CGS, and REEEC. A repost of the article is below; to view the original, please see ...- 2021-04-27 - Fall 2021 Select Courses in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Please note: The courses below are not an exhaustive list of courses being offered on the REEE region. Please see course explorer for additional classes. Area Studies Courses BCS 115: South Slavic Cultures Peter Wright TR 12:30 - 1:50 pm, 124 Burrill...
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, I visit each Head Start location as a REEEC Graduate Assistant to introduce a particular country;...
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 California, Riverside, in Languages, concentrating on Russian and German, and his M.A. in 2019 from...
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...