SLAVIC Calendar

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby

  Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  • Lecture
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  Slavic Film Series presents "Hutsulka Ksenia" [Гуцулка Ксеня], dir. Alena Demyanenko

  6:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening
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  Slavic Film Series: Гуцулка Ксеня [Hutsulka Ksenia] (Ukrainian)

  7:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  • Film Screening

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Fethi Keles, "Unsettled and Resettled: Experiences of Bosnian Diaspora in the United States."

  12:00 pm

  306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  • Lecture

Monday, November 10, 2025

• 

  Russkii stol--Russian table

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

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

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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  The EU AI Act: Protecting Individual Rights While Fostering AI Development - A Comparison of EU and US AI Regulatory Initiatives by Prof. Theodore Boone

  12:00 pm

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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  Polish conversation table, beginner

  4:30 pm

  Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

  Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, beginners welcome.

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  • Informational
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  Courtney Handman | AI and the Race for Interspecies Communication

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.

  • Lecture

Friday, November 14, 2025

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  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: George Gasyna, "A Time for the Province: Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature"

  12:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  • Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

• 

  Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby

  Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

• 

  Russkii stol--Russian table

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

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

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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  Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities

  10:00 - 11:00 am

  • Informational
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  Slavic Dept Lecture: Maria Reva, Ukrainian novelist

  4:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Lecture

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• 

  Russkii stol--Russian table, beginners

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Stage 5 lobby

  Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, beginners welcome!

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, December 4, 2025

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  Slavic Film Series presents "Mermaid" [Русалка], dir. Anna Melikyan

  6:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Film Screening
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  Slavic Film Series: Русалка [Mermaid] (Russian)

  6:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  • Film Screening

Monday, December 8, 2025

• 

  Russkii stol--Russian table

  5:30 pm

  Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

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

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• 

  Polish conversation table, beginner

  4:30 pm

  Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

  Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, beginners welcome.

  • Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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  Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl | Culture Wars

  7:00 pm

  Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium