SLAVIC Web calendar

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• European Union Center Fall Reception

  Time

  4:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Nathan Hensley | No Escape, No Ending: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Slavic Film Series presents "My Thoughts are Silent" [Мої думки тихі ], dir. Antonio Lukich

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Brown Bag Series- Ensuring Non-Interference, Maintaining Resilient Democracy: Contemporary Challenges in Legislation on Countering Covert Foreign Influence y Maxim Krupskiy

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Slavic Film Series presents "Generation P" [Generation П ], dir. Viktor Ginzburg

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Slavic Film Series presents "Spoor" [Pokot], dir. Agnieszka Holland

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Slavic Department Lecture: "Whose Tongue Is it Anyway?: On Poets Translating Themselves and Others"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Translators who translate from their “first” language and into their acquired tongue have been marginalized. This talk aims to build on the work of Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Adrian Wanner, and others in looking at several Polish and Polish-American poets for whom literary multilingualism and translation are two sides of the same coin.

  • 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

  

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

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture