SLAVIC Calendar

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC New Directions Lecture: Diego Benning Wang, "Epic Indigenization: Literature and Nation on the Soviet–Finnish Borders under Stalinism."

  • 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
• • 7:00 - 8:30 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  CAS Annual Lecture | Catherine Murphy, The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

  Catherine Murphy | The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

  • Lecture

Monday, October 13, 2025

• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • 2090B LCLB

  Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"

  This lecture examines the phenomenon of “PRL Noir”: a series of tele-cinematic returns to Poland’s socialist period (PRL standing for “People’s Republic of Poland”) that channel present-day anxieties over communism’s grim legacy through the highly stylized medium of crime drama.

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • 2090B LCLB

  Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"

  • Lecture
• • 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, 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)

  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, 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

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

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