Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers

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- 12:00 pm
  6/13/2019
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Colleen Lucey, "Tales of Violence and Murder: The Prostitute in Fin-de-Siècle Russian Literature"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  6/25/2019
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Emily Theobald, "'Must They Wait Fifty Years?': Penderecki’s Pittsburgh Overture (1967) and the Polish Avant-garde in Pittsburgh"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  9/5/2019
- Levis Faculty Center 300
REEEC Fall Reception and New Directions Lecture by Dr. Richard Tempest
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  9/16/2019
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Morgan Liu
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  9/20/2019
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Christina Maranci
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  10/8/2019
- 101 International Studies Building
Noontime Scholars Lecture with Sean Pollock: Who Spoke for Russia’s Muslims? Turkic Sources on Russian Empire in the Caucasus
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  10/29/2019
- 101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture with Anna Muller: Negotiating Motherhood and Communism: Tonia Lechtman and the World of Letters, 1937-1945.
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  10/29/2019
- 114 David Kinley Hall (1407 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801)
Trump, Ukraine, Impeachment: How Does the World Talk About It?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
  11/5/2019
- 101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture with Diana Sacilowski: Eliding Jewishness: (Un)Marking Jewish Identity in Late/Post Communist Polish Literature
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  11/7/2019
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208 (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
New Directions Lecture with Christina Maranci: The Wall Paintings of Medieval Armenia: New Discoveries, New Problems, and New Possibilities
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  12/3/2019
- 101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture with Liridona Veliu: #Balkanization: A Critical Study of Otherness through Twitter
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  1/28/2020
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)
Liliya Gazizova: Poetry Reading and Q&A
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
  2/27/2020
- 106 Main Library (1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Andrew Janco, "What Natural Language Processing Reveals in a Corpus of 400,000 Russian Diaries"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/10/2020
- 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass, "Why Weak States Balance: National Mobilization and Georgia’s Post-Cold War Security Strategy"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/8/2020
- 101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
CANCELLED: REEEC Lecture: Andrew Gilbert, "Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/21/2020
- 101 International Studies Building (910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820)
CANCELLED: REEEC International Lecture: Anna Ananieva, “Curiosity about the East: Chinese Culture at the Imperial Palaces and Gardens in 18th Century Russia”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  7/16/2020
VSRL Public Lecture: Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness, "She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Soviet and Russian Animation"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  9/3/2020
Race and Racism in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies: A Roundtable
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
  9/17/2020
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Emily Wang and Korey Garibaldi, "Interrogating the Declining Significance of Pushkin’s Blackness: Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, and Literary Nationalism"
- Lecture
- 10:00 am
  9/25/2020
The Crisis in Belarus: A Discussion with Natalya Chernyshova
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
  9/29/2020
Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: David Cooper (University of Illinois), "Anatomy of a Successful Forgery: The Czech Manuscripts"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  10/15/2020
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Diana Kurkovsky West, "From 'Big Data' Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet Past for the Post-Covid-19 Future"
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
  10/16/2020
The Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Conversation
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
  10/20/2020
Nina Jankowicz, "How to Lose the Information War: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  10/27/2020
Are European Human Rights and Rule of Law in Crisis?: Roundtable and Discussion
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
  2/9/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Emily Roche (Brown University), “The Uncultivated Garden: Architecture, Architects, and the State in Interwar Poland"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  2/11/2021
Brown-Bag Discussion: “Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Rule of Law in Europe"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  2/18/2021
REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies Lecture: Kim Lane Scheppele, “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  2/23/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Lauren McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Citizen Oversight of the Legal System in Russia”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/2/2021
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Felix Cowan, "Narratives of Backwardness and Modernization in the Late Imperial Russian Penny Press"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/9/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Yelena Severina (UCLA), “Theater for the Revolution: Tableaux Vivants in Early Soviet Russia"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/11/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Larisa Kurtovic (University of Ottawa), "A city on the water, without water: Politics of water infrastructures in postwar Sarajevo"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  3/18/2021
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Holly Case, "The Noblesse Oblige of Megalomania: The Hungarian History of an Idea"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/23/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Evgeny Grishin, “From the Age of Correction to the Age of Schism: Religious Dissent and the Language of Exclusion in Early Modern Russia”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/20/2021
REEEC VORL Brown Bag Series: Regine Spector (University of Massachusetts Amherst), "The Political Lives of Dying Seas"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/27/2021
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Saniya Ghanoui and Pavel Vasilyev, "The Global Menstrual Movement during the Cold War and Beyond"
- Lecture
- 1:15 - 2:15 pm
  6/17/2021
Keynote Address - Frozen Conflicts in Eurasia Workshop: John O'Loughlin (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech University)
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  7/13/2021
VSRL Fisher Fellow Brown Bag Lecture: Andrey Shlyakhter, "Backs to the USSR: Explaining the Growth of the Soviet Border Guard, 1917-1939"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  7/21/2021
VSRL Fisher Fellow Brown Bag Lecture: Kristina Poznan, "The U.S. Census, the Paris Settlement, and the Forging of Eastern European Ethnic Categories and Immigration Quotas: An Exercise in 'Guesswork'"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  9/30/2021
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Amanda Gregg, "Beyond 'Backwardness': New Research on Firms in Imperial Russia"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  10/14/2021
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Sunnie Rucker-Chang, "The Chinese in Serbia as 'Perpetual Foreigners'"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  11/2/2021
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Yuri Frantsuz, "The Impact of Sociopolitical Instabilities on Demographic Behavior: The Case Study of USSR/Russia"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  11/11/2021
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Krista Goff, "The Possibilities and Challenges of Oral History Methodology in the History of the Caucasus"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  11/30/2021
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Nora Webb Williams, "Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-Term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  3/3/2022
Presentation & Discussion: Eileen Kane, "Racial Segregation in Odessa, Early 1900s"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
  3/3/2022
- 217 Noyes Laboratory (505 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL)
"History as Convenient Pretext": The Use and Misuse of History in the Invasion of Ukraine

Join Stefan Djordjevic as we place Putin's pseudo-historical narratives into their context and work to understand how history can be misused and mobilized in the service of an expansionistic state.
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  3/4/2022
Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine: An Open Discussion
- Other
- 8:00 pm
  3/6/2022
Racism in Modern Russia: A short History
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
  3/7/2022
- Wohlers Hall 141 (1206 S 6th St, Champaign, IL)
"The Ukrainian Crisis in Regional and Global Perspective: A Political Science Roundtable"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
  3/8/2022
Digital Activism and International Law in Ukraine
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
  3/8/2022
- 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: LeiAnna Hamel, “'The Abyss of Filth and Shame': Prostitution and Modernity in East European Jewish Culture"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/10/2022
NGOs at Work in Ukraine: Spotlight on Soleterre
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
  3/22/2022
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Matthews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Robert Geraci, "The Dream of a Russian Merchant Fleet and the Trope of Russian Commercial Inferiority"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
  3/24/2022
Virtual Open House for Admitted REEES MA Students
- Reception/Open House
- 12:00 pm
  3/29/2022
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Yuliya Brel-Fournier, "Belarusian: from the Language Policy Failure to the Language of the New Belarusian Nation"
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
  3/29/2022
HRI Russia and the Global Color Line Lecture: Rossen Djagalov, "The End of the Affair: Reflecting on the Ruins of Soviet-Third-World Engagements"
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
  3/30/2022
- Plym Auditorium in the Illinois School of Architecture and on Zoom
Christina Crawford – “Spatial Revolution in Soviet Ukraine: Kharkiv, 1930
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
  3/31/2022
ACDIS Teach-in: Ukraine “The Military Situation in Ukraine and its Implications for Nuclear Security and Safety"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:30 am
  4/1/2022
Discussion/Q&A with a Scholar/Journalist Currently in the Eastern European Region
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:05 pm
  4/6/2022
Ukrainian Music Hour with WEFT
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
  4/14/2022
- Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Performing Resistance to Authoritarianism (MillerComm 2022)
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
  4/19/2022
- Campus Instructional Facility Auditorium (1405 Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801) and on Zoom
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: Russia's War on Ukraine | A Conversation with Illinois Alumnus Journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr

Please join the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center as we welcome alumnus journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr for a Q&A session.
- Other
- 4:00 pm
  4/21/2022
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building (707 S. Matthews Ave, Urbana, IL, 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Neringa Klumbyte, "Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania"
- Lecture
- 7:00 pm
  5/12/2022
- The Literary (122 N. Neil St. Champaign, IL 61820)
Andrei Kureichik Talk
- Lecture
- 10:00 am
  7/21/2022
Fisher Fellow Talk: "From Tver to Tashkent: Exploring Citizenship and Nation in 19th Century Russian Museums" (Albert Cavallaro, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Lecture
- 10:30 am
  7/28/2022
Fisher Fellow Talk: "Materialising Soviet Selves: Letters, Loyalty and Gender, 1936-40" (Hannah Parker, University of Sussex)
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  9/20/2022
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Elizabeth Abosch
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  10/18/2022
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Joanna Kula, "The North Caucasus On and Off the Beaten Track"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  11/15/2022
- TBD
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Alena Levina and Anna Shulik
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  11/29/2022
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Ailuna Utegenova, "Eurasian Integration After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Kazakhstan's Policy"
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
  12/2/2022
- David Kinley Hall Room 404 (1407 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Scott Gehlbach, "Contact, Threat, and Violence During Political Upheaval: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  2/14/2023
- Lincoln Hall 1065 (702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Claire Shaw, "Writing the History of the Soviet Body: Questions and Approaches"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  2/21/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Franziska Yost, "Gay Erotica in the Post-Soviet Sexual Revolution, 1990-98"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
  2/24/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Jessica Werneke, "Sovetskoe Foto and De-Westernizing Photography Theory"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/1/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Catherine Prendergast, "The Man Who Wasn’t There: Excavating the life of Schachno Epstein, GRU agent in the Yiddish Press"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/30/2023
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Kenneth J. Yin, "Dungan Folktales and Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Nerses Kopalyan: "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-Led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/18/2023
- 0357 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Alyssa Mathias, "Songs from the Silicon Mountains: Music and IT Development in 21st-Century Armenia"
- Lecture
- 5:30 pm
  4/20/2023
- 2090B Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
Slavic Lecture, Christy Monet, “Toward a Literary Archive of Russian Liberalism: The Imperial Semeistvennoe Gosudarstvo and the Family Novel.”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/27/2023
- 108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Sanctions on Russia, the War in Ukraine, and the Foreign Service: A Discussion with Director Rob Lee
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  6/27/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Fisher Fellow Talk: "Buriats Beyond Borders: Making and Unmaking Multi-Layered Citizens in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1890-1938)" (Griffin Creech, University of Pennsylvania)
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  9/22/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Daria Semenova, "'This Beautiful Crimea, This Tragic Crimea': The Peninsula on the Map of Sites of Memory in Ukrainian Genre Fiction for Children and Young Adults of the 21st Century"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  9/29/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Book Talk: Patti McCracken, "The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring"
- Lecture
- 12:30 pm
  10/5/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Eli Feiman, Public Opinion in Wartime Russia: Business as Usual or Crisis of Confidence
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  10/20/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Robert Collis, "Unorthodox Visions: Magnetic Somnambulism, Clairvoyance and Prophecy among the Petersburg Nobility, 1820s-1830s"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  10/26/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Julia Vaingurt, "The Weakling, the Genius, the Bomb, and the Globe: Andrei Bitov on Writing Amidst Nuclear Ecologies"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  11/1/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Dani Nutting, "Flutes as Time Shelters: Bulgarian Becomings and the Instrumental Past"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  11/10/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Marija Fedjanina, "Holy Trickster in Foolish Times: 'Alternative' Masculinity of the Late Soviet Union and the Transition Era"
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  11/16/2023
REEES Graduate Programs Information Session
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
  2/6/2024
- 108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Fulbright Opportunities in Central and Southeastern Europe: A Lunchtime Discussion with Angela Rodel (Executive Director, Fulbright Bulgaria) and David Schug (Director, National and International Scholarships Program, U of I)
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
  2/6/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Authors & Artists Lecture: Angela Rodel, "From Cem Sultan to Time Shelter: Strategies for Translating History in Bulgarian Literature"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/1/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Ksenia Golovko, "Revolution, New Life, Utopia: Vladimir Tatlin's Art"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  3/7/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Clare Griffin, "Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/8/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Laurel Gray, "From Cultural Traditions to Concert Elegance: History of Women Defying Mortality in Showcasing Traditional Dances on Stage"
- Lecture
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  3/21/2024
- 319 Gregory Hall (810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)
Human Rights and Dissent in Putin's Russia: A Roundtable Discussion
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
  3/22/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Pavlo Dziuba, "Economy of Ukraine: Transformation Track, Military Challenges and Post-War Rebuilding"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  3/26/2024
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: Joseph Torigian, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/11/2024
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Maria Mayofis, "A Socialist Revolutionary at a Rendezvous, or How Cultural History Can Benefit from Studying Love Letters"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/17/2024
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jonathan Hollis, "Armenian Musicians from Azerbaijan: Legacy, Conflict, and Exile"
- Lecture