SLAVIC Calendar

Monday, November 10, 2025

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  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