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5:00 pm 10/13/2025
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

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5:00 pm 10/27/2025
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

4:00 pm 10/30/2025
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

12:00 pm 11/7/2025
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

12:00 pm 11/14/2025
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

12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/19/2025
108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820

EUC Brown Bag Lecture Series: 'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" by Prof. Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson

'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Date and Time: November 19 at 12 pm Location: 108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820

Lecture

4:00 pm 12/2/2025
Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

Slavic Dept Lecture: Maria Reva, Ukrainian novelist

Lecture