SLAVIC Web calendar

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Book Talk: The Village Project: Rural Revitalization in Contemporary Bulgaria

  Time

  9:30 am

  Location

  Coble Hall, Room 306

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Panel: Children of Postsocialism: Reflecting on Revitalization in Southeastern Europe

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  306 Coble

  • Lecture

  

• The Marriage of Figaro excerpts performed by The Urbana Opera Ensemble

  Time

  6:30 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium

  • Performance

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Predatory Recruitment: Beyond the Mercenary Paradigm

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Faculty Lounge, College of Law

  • Lecture

  

• Ukrainian Studies Lecture: "From Documentation to Accountability: The Truth Hounds Experience"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Slavic Film Series presents "Chalga" [Чалга], dir. Marian Valev

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• Bulgarian conversation table

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Cafe Paradiso, 801 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana

  ДОБРЕ ДОШЛИ! Come practice your Bulgarian. All are welcome.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• Roundtable on European Responses on US Elections

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall 1065

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Slavic Film Series presents "The Wedding" [Svadba], dir. Igor Seregi

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• Bulgarian conversation table

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Cafe Paradiso, 801 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana

  ДОБРЕ ДОШЛИ! Come practice your Bulgarian. All are welcome.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Elizabeth Rodini | A Walk through the Layered Lives of Rome

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Louie Palu | The Idea of North in Literature and Photography

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  In this CAS/MillerComm event, documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu discusses distinct representations of the Arctic in literature and the visual arts, exploring this often-misunderstood region as both imagined otherworld and real-life landscape.

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, February 9, 2027

• Food For Thought | Sameh Tawfick and Pollyanna Rhee

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science & Engineering) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture.)

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, February 24, 2027

• Film Screening: The Killhouse (2026)

  Time

  5:00 pm

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

• Food For Thought | Shelley Weinberg & Josue David Cisneros

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Shelley Weinberg and Josue David Cisneros.

  • Lecture

  

Monday, March 22, 2027

• The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond A Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign

  The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond” explores the intersections between Ukrainian and Yiddish literature through the metaphor of the poet as sounding board and listening device.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Tuesday, March 23, 2027

• The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond A Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign

  The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond” explores the intersections between Ukrainian and Yiddish literature through the metaphor of the poet as sounding board and listening device.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, March 25, 2027

• Food For Thought | Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu.

  • Lecture

  

Monday, March 29, 2027

• Brown Bag Series- Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  404 David Kinley Hall

  Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Session with Jacob Thomas as he talks about his book, "Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate."

  • Lecture

  

Friday, April 2, 2027

• Design in Multi-Species Worlds

  Time

  9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  The symposium will explore the timely field convergence of posthumanism and environmental design, especially with regard to how the posthumanist perspective can challenge, guide and even inspire new ways of thinking about the environment and the life that is dependent on it.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, April 8, 2027

• Balkan Research Forum

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Online, Zoom, link provided to registered participants

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Friday, April 9, 2027

• Balkan Research Forum

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Online, Zoom, link provided to registered participants

  • Conference/Workshop