SLAVIC Calendar

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Book Talk - Diana Oskov

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore; Author's Corner (809 S. Wright Street)

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Visiting Scholar, Professor Sergei Ivanov; REEEC and Medieval Studies

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 108

  • Lecture

  

• 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

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Piotr Florczyk, University of Washington, Seattle

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge

  • Lecture

  

• 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

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Mikulás̆ Pešta, Historian, Charles University (Prague)

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall, Room 306

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Book Talk - Sarah Craycraft, Harvard University

  Time

  9:30 am   1:30 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall, Room 306

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Ukrainian Studies Lecture: "From Documentation to Accountability: The Truth Hounds Experience"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetrick

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

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

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Elizabeth Rodini | A Walk through the Layered Lives of Rome

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture