SLAVIC Calendar

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 5:00 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, April 2, 2025

• 

  • 10:00 am
  • 220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mackenzie Pierce, "Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust"

  • Lecture

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

  Food For Thought: Yuguo Chen and Soo Ah Kwon

  Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • English Building 109 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Conceptualizing (Im-)migration and Making Sense of Diversity in post-WWII America

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • Illini Union, Room 314A (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• 

  • 5:30 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL)

  Film Screening & Discussion, Queendom (2023) with Producer Igor Myakotin

  • Film Screening

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  Slavic Film Series: Earth [Земля] (Russian)

  • Film Screening
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Slavic Film Series presents "Earth" [Земля], dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko

  • Film Screening

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

  Russkii stol--Russian table

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

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, April 18, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • 0359 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Olga Zaitseva-Herz, "From Stages to Battlefields: The Role of Pop Music in Russia's Full-Scale War on Ukraine"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 5:00 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, April 23, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

  Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

  Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2025

• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Slavic Film Series presents "Father" [Otac], dir. Srdan Golubović

  • Film Screening

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky

  • Lecture
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  Slavic Film Series: Father [Otac] (Serbian)

  • Film Screening

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Krannert Performing Arts Center, Stage 5 Lobby

  Russkii stol--Russian table

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

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Slavic Film Series presents "The Road to Mother" [Анаға апарар жол], dir. Akan Satayev

  • Film Screening
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)

  Slavic Film Series: The Road to Mother [Анаға апарар жол] (Kazakh)

  • Film Screening