SLAVIC Calendar

Thursday, October 16, 2025

PJCS Film screening: SHTTL

5:15 pm

Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Film Screening

Monday, October 20, 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, October 22, 2025

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

3:30 - 4:30 pm
- Informational

Thursday, October 23, 2025

BridgeUSA Fellow Lecture: Oleksandr Kovrov, "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Dnipro University of Technology: Developing Partnerships in the Field of Green Technologies and Land Phytoremediation"

4:00 - 5:30 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Climate | Change: Fredrik Jonsson on the historical roots of the climate crisis

4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center Room 210
- Lecture
Polish conversation table, inermediate/advanced

4:30 pm

Caffe Bene, 707 S Gregory St, Urbana

Porozmawiajmy po polsku! Conversation in Polish, intermediate/advanced.
- Social/Informal Event
Slavic Film Series: Pokłosie [Aftermath] (Polish)

6:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Film Screening
Slavic Film Series presents "Aftermath" [Pokłosie], dir. Władysław Pasikowski

6:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
- Film Screening

Monday, October 27, 2025

Slavic Dept Lecture: “I Write Because the Truth About this War Must be Preserved”: The Ukrainian War Diary.

5:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

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

Wednesday, October 29, 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

Thursday, October 30, 2025

REEEC New Directions Lecture: Choi Chatterjee and Karen Petrone, "Russia in World History: Updating the Long Telegram"

4:00 pm

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

Friday, October 31, 2025

Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

3:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center Room 210

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

Wednesday, November 5, 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, November 6, 2025

Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center Room 208
- Lecture
Slavic Film Series presents "Hutsulka Ksenia" [Гуцулка Ксеня], dir. Alena Demyanenko

6:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
- Film Screening
Slavic Film Series: Гуцулка Ксеня [Hutsulka Ksenia] (Ukrainian)

6:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Film Screening

Friday, November 7, 2025

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

Wednesday, November 12, 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

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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

10:00 - 11:00 am
- Informational

Friday, November 14, 2025

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

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

10:00 - 11:00 am
- Informational
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

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

6:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
- Film Screening
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

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

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

Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities
Recurring

All Day

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
- Seminar/Symposium