SLAVIC Calendar

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- 4:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Polish conversation table, beginner

Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, beginners welcome.
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 5:15 pm
- Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
PJCS Film screening: SHTTL
- Film Screening

Monday, October 20, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
- Informational

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Climate | Change: Fredrik Jonsson on the historical roots of the climate crisis
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- Caffe Bene, 707 S Gregory St, Urbana
Polish conversation table, inermediate/advanced

Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Pokłosie [Aftermath] (Polish)
- Film Screening
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Slavic Film Series presents "Aftermath" [Pokłosie], dir. Władysław Pasikowski
- Film Screening

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Slavic Dept Lecture: “I Write Because the Truth About this War Must be Preserved”: The Ukrainian War Diary.

This lecture examines the war diary, the most prominent genre at the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, October 30, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone, "Russia in World History: Updating the Long Telegram"
- Lecture

Friday, October 31, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
- Lecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 6, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Slavic Film Series presents "Hutsulka Ksenia" [Гуцулка Ксеня], dir. Alena Demyanenko
- Film Screening
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Гуцулка Ксеня [Hutsulka Ksenia] (Ukrainian)
- Film Screening

Friday, November 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Fethi Keles, "Unsettled and Resettled: Experiences of Bosnian Diaspora in the United States."
- Lecture

Monday, November 10, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

- 4:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Polish conversation table, beginner

Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, beginners welcome.
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 13, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
- Informational

Friday, November 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: George Gasyna, "A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature""
- Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Slavic Dept Lecture: Maria Reva, Ukrainian novelist
- Lecture

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, December 4, 2025

- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Slavic Film Series presents "Mermaid" [Русалка], dir. Anna Melikyan
- Film Screening
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Русалка [Mermaid] (Russian)
- Film Screening

Monday, December 8, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Russkii stol--Russian table

Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

- 4:30 pm
- Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby
Polish conversation table, beginner

Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, beginners welcome.
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

- 7:00 pm
- Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl | Culture Wars
- Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities
- Seminar/Symposium