OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center


  • Noontime Scholars lecture: "Mass Inventing Friendship: Propaganda for the USSR in Stalinist Poland" by Jan C. Behrends (Research fellow, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin) (8/28/2007)
  • Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by Robert Hayden (Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public and International Affairs; Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies) (9/10/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture: "The Ecstasy of Big Ideas": Building Yugoslav Tourism through the Five Year Plan, 1947-1951 by Kate Meehan Pedrotty (History, UIUC) (9/11/2007)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture and Keynote Address of the International Conference: "Building the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market": "Highways, Roadblocks and Empires" by Robert Hayden (Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public and International Affairs; Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies) (9/21/2007)
  • International Conference: Building the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market (9/21/2007 - 9/22/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture: "The Revolutionary Implications of Russian Alcohol Prohibition, 1914-1925: New Insights from the Archives" by Mark Schrad (Political Science, University of Illinois) (9/25/2007)
  • IPRH-CSAMES Panel Discussion: "The Nation and the Left" (10/2/2007)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture: "Thoughts on the Fabrication and Escalation of a New Nationalism and Vigilantism in Turkey (prior to July 2007 Elections)" by Halil Berktay (Associate Professor of History, Sabanci University, Istanbul; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University) (10/4/2007)
  • Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by Halil Berktay (Associate Professor of History, Sabanci University, Istanbul; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University) (10/4/2007)
  • CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series: "Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz" by Jan Gross (Krouse Family Visiting Scholar, UIUC and Department of History, Princeton University) (10/9/2007)
  • Majors and Minors Fair (10/9/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture: "Hip-Hop, Migration, and the Racialization of Class Identities in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine" by Adriana Helbig (Musicology, University of Illinois) (10/9/2007)
  • IPRH PANEL DISCUSSION: Jews and their Neighbors, Before, During and After WWII (10/11/2007)
  • JACS Conference: "Transnational Popular Culture Industries" (10/11/2007 - 10/12/2007)
  • The Department of Speech Communication Fall 2007 Colloquium Series: "New Complexities in 'Exporting the First Amendment'" by Monroe Price?(Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) (10/11/2007)
  • Workshop for K-16 Teachers: "Understanding Others Through Pop Culture" (10/13/2007)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture: "What is Putin's Economic Model? The Market versus the Service State" by James Millar (Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University) (10/18/2007)
  • Student Meeting:"What Does the CIA Really Do, and How Well?" featuring CIA analysts of Russia and Eurasia (10/19/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture:"Europeanness and Modernity in the 'Uttermost East': Sakhalin Island in the Imperial Russian Imagination" by Sharyl Corrado (History, University of Illinois) (10/23/2007)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture: "Earthquakes and Empire in Modern Central Asia" byDouglas Northrop (Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan) (11/8/2007)
  • Workshop:Language and Hip-Hop Culture in a Globalizing World (11/10/2007)
  • International Careers Workshop II: "Health Care Overseas" (11/13/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture:"Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes: S. I. Witkiewicz vs. the Polish Avant-Garde (1919-1939)" by George Gasyna (Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Illinois) (11/13/2007)
  • Noontime Scholars lecture: "The Ironies and Challenges of Soviet Expropriation in a Russian Province" by Susan Smith (History, Bradley University) (11/27/2007)
  • Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by Robert Amsterdam (Amsterdam and Peroff) (1/22/2008)
  • REEEC Lecture: "Putin vs. YUKOS: Russian Law and Oil Politics" by Robert Amsterdam (Amsterdam and Peroff) (1/22/2008)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture: "The Soviet Gulag" by David Satter (REEEC-Journalism Visiting Faculty; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute) (1/24/2008)
  • Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by David Satter (REEEC-Journalism Visiting Faculty; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute) (1/24/2008)
  • Outreach Presentation about Russian geography, language and culture to K-2nd by Lynda Park (REEEC, University of Illinois) (1/25/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Azerbaijan: a Country in Political, Social, and Educational Transition" by Mohammad Babadoost (Crop Sciences, University of Illinois) (1/29/2008)
  • Concert: "Calling Songs": Ancient Songs from Ukraine by Marjana Sadovska (Ukrainian Folk Singer) (1/30/2008)
  • 2008 ISSA Conference (2/7/2008 - 2/9/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Gender and Transition: Responses to Economic Change in Siberia" by Elizabeth Sweet (Regional and Urban Planning, University of Illinois) (2/12/2008)
  • Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies lecture: "Balkan Anti-Semitism: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania Before the Holocaust" by William Brustein (Associate Provost for International Affairs, University of Illinois) (2/14/2008)
  • Millercomm Lecture: Biofuels and the World Food Situation by Joachim von Braun (Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRI)? (2/14/2008)
  • Roundtable Discussion: Bioenergy: Strategies for Mitigating the Food Versus Fuel Controversy (2/14/2008)
  • International Family Fest with Larisa Puslenghea (REEEC, University of Illinois) (2/23/2008)
  • 4th Annual Turkish Studies Symposium: Islam, Secularism and Democracy in Turkey Today (2/28/2008)
  • GlobalFest (3/8/2008)
  • GlobalFest: Discovery Room: Romanian Spring Charms with Alexandra Seceleanu (Romanian Student Club/ Mathematics, University of Illinois) (3/8/2008)
  • GlobalFest: REEEC Exhibit Table with Christine Allen (REEEC, University of Illinois) (3/8/2008)
  • GlobalFest: Romanian Immersion Room by Larisa Puslenghea (REEEC, University of Illinois) (3/8/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Cultural Contestation in the South Caucasus: Musical 'Masterpieces' and the role of the UNESCO" by Natasha Kipp (Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, UIUC) (3/11/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: "The Political Role of the Internet in the Russian Federation" by Heather Macleod (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois) (3/25/2008)
  • 2008 Current Affairs Forum: "Russia at the Crossroads" (3/27/2008)
  • Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by Leon Aron (Director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute) (3/27/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Kick-off Celebration (3/30/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Presentation: "The Legacy of Tolstoy in Today's Russia, Centennial High School" (3/31/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Presentation: "The Legacy of Tolstoy in Today's Russia, Judah Christian High School" (3/31/2008)
  • International Careers in Government workshop (4/1/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Focus 580 interview on WILL-AM by Michael Denner (Professor of Russian Studies, Stetson University) (4/3/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Keynote Lecture: "Gentlemen, Ivan Ilych Is Dead and You Will Be, Too: Can We Ever Again Live Well and Pleasantly after Reading Tolstoy?" (4/3/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Talk: Tolstoy among the Classics, Judah Christian High School with Michael Denner (Professor of Russian Studies, Stetson University) (4/3/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read Talk: Tolstoy for Today's Students at Centennial High School featuring Michael Denner (Professor of Russian Studies, Stetson University) (4/4/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read theatrical performance: Champaign Central High School Presents "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" with LaDonna Wilson (Drama Club Director) (4/4/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: Death and the Meaning of Life Film Festival (4/9/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: Journey of Translation (4/14/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read/ Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Tolstoy and Herder: Nationalism and Brotherhood in Tolstoy's War and Peace" (4/15/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: Discussion Group at Clark-Lindsey Village with Tatiana Kuzmic (PhD Candidate, Program of Comparative and World Literature, UIUC) (4/15/2008)
  • Polish Studies Talk: "The Bittersweet Truth: Adventures in Literary Translation" with Bill Johnston (Associate Professor, Departments: Second Language Studies and Comparative Literature, Indiana University; Director of Indiana University's Polish Studies Center) (4/15/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read:The Russian and Eurasian Ensemble and Countess Sophia Tolstoy: Wife, Mother, Manager, and Widow with Faith Wilson Stein (Graduate Student, Comparative and World Literature, UIUC) (4/18/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: "Connecting Art and Literature: An Exploration of Death and Dying in the Visual Arts and in Tolstoy" with Anne Sautman (Director of Education, Krannert Art Museum) (4/19/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: "Re-dimensioning the Boundaries of Nationality: 'Albanians of Kosovo' vs. 'Kosovars'" with Eda Derhemi (Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois) (4/22/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: The How and Why of Dying (4/23/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read:Borders Reading Group with Oleksandra Shchur (Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UIUC) (4/24/2008)
  • MillerComm 2008 Lecture: Protecting the Prophet: Understanding Muslim Reactions to the Danish Cartoon Controversy with Lawrence Rosen (William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University) (4/24/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read: "Keeping the Faith" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" with Steve Shoemaker (host), Rabbi Norman Klein (Sinai Temple), Rev. Elihu Genmyo Smith (Prairie Zen Center) (4/27/2008)
  • Champaign-Urbana Big Read:Borders Urbana Free Library Reads with Mary Wilkes Towner (book group leader) (4/27/2008)
  • Champaign Schools Unit 4 teacher professional development (5/7/2008)
  • 2008 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (6/9/2008 - 8/2/2008)
  • SRL film screening: East/ West (6/9/2008)
  • Eurasian Junior Scholars Training Workshop: "Gendering Democracy: Self, State, and Political Reform in Eurasia and Beyond" (6/11/2008 - 6/13/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture, "A great stench": Understanding Russia's Reaction to Tobacco" by Matthew Romaniello (Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa) (6/11/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Russian Ark (6/11/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Love Film (6/16/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture: ""Spiritual Christianity, Prophecy, and Resistance to State Power in Russia and Arizona" by Eugene Clay (Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University) (6/17/2008)
  • SRL film screening:Tycoon (6/18/2008)
  • The Socio-cultural aspects of Pakistani Pashto Pop Music (6/18/2008)
  • "2008 Fisher Forum: "Interpreting Emotion in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia"" with Keynote address,"Thinking about Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotions in the Study of the Past"" by Ronald G. Suny (6/19/2008 - 6/21/2008)
  • Pop Culture in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan (6/19/2008)
  • Movie: The Cave of the Yellow Dog (6/20/2008)
  • 2008 International Summer Institute for Pre-collegiate Educators: "Multiple Perspectives in Teaching World History" (6/22/2008 - 6/28/2008)
  • SRL film screening: The Lives of Others (6/23/2008)
  • Movie: Kuresh olmeydu (6/24/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars:"Siberian Regionalists in the 1860s: The First Regionalist Movement in Europe" (6/24/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Kidnapping Caucasian Style, or Shurik's New Adventure (6/25/2008)
  • Language policy in Independent Central Asia and Azerbaijan (6/26/2008)
  • Movie: Dev bilan Pakana (6/27/2008)
  • Balkan Studies Junior Scholars Training Workshop:"Building Balkan Studies: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives" (6/30/2008 - 7/2/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Kosovo: Of Blood and History (6/30/2008)
  • Kazakh Language in Media (7/1/2008)
  • Noontime Scholars: 'Soft Borders: an argument against the hard borders of ethnocracy' (7/1/2008)
  • Mongolian Cooking Demonstration (7/2/2008)
  • SRL film screening: House of Fools (7/2/2008)
  • Movie: Kek (7/3/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Alexander Nevsky (7/7/2008)
  • Uyghur BabyShowers (7/7/2008)
  • SRL film screening: Citizen Vaclav Havel (7/9/2008)
  • Kazakhstan: The Challenges of Prosperity (7/10/2008)
  • Language Education in Uzbekistan (7/14/2008)
  • Inner Asia? Central Asia? Central Eurasia? What Exactly are they? (7/16/2008)
  • Uzbekistan through the lens (7/17/2008)
  • Azeri cooking demonstration (7/20/2008)
  • Tajiki on the Internet (7/21/2008)
  • Mongolian Nomadic Customs, Hospitality (7/22/2008)
  • Historical Buildings of Afghanistan (7/23/2008)
  • Mongolian Cinematic History (7/23/2008)
  • Uzbek cooking demonstration (7/23/2008)
  • A brief lecture on the Kazakh Dish Manti (7/27/2008)
  • Uyghur Cooking Demonstration (7/28/2008)
  • Turkmen Bilingual Education (7/29/2008)
  • Human Rights and Cultural Diversity (8/4/2008 - 8/8/2008)
  • Azerbaijan: Land of Fire (8/5/2008)
  • Turkmen Rug Display (8/5/2008)
  • Azeri cooking demonstration (8/6/2008)
  • Lecture: Uyghur Traditional Food (8/7/2008)
  • Global Healthcare and Education (8/11/2008 - 8/15/2008)
  • Russia-Georgia Conflict (8/15/2008)
  • Current Events in Georgia (8/22/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Otac na sluzbenom putu, When Father was Away for Business (8/25/2008)
  • Imposing Mixedness Mixed Marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Creation of Difference (9/2/2008)
  • My Georgian Summer (9/16/2008)
  • The Georgia-Russia Conflict and the New Great Game (9/25/2008)
  • Animal Farms, or How Socialist Pigs Overthrew an Empire (9/30/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Kukushka, The Cuckoo (10/2/2008)
  • The View from the Streets Attitudes Toward Politics and Religion Among Ordinary Citizens in the Arab World (10/2/2008)
  • Islam, Modernity and Eurasia Conference (10/3/2008 - 10/4/2008)
  • University Laboratory High School Cultural Fair (10/3/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Ostrov, The Island (10/9/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Lang ist der Weg, Long is the Road (10/16/2008)
  • Hungary 1956 Eyewitness to History (10/21/2008)
  • EU-ACDIS Symposium - US/Russia/EU (10/23/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny, A Week in the Life of a Man (10/23/2008)
  • US-EU-Russia New Strategic Dynamics after Bush (10/23/2008)
  • WILL Focus 580 Radio Interview (10/23/2008)
  • Is the United States a Global Power in Decline? (10/24/2008)
  • Is the United States a Global Power in Decline? (10/24/2008)
  • THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS GENDER IMPLICATIONS (10/24/2008)
  • Campus Resources for International Careers Workshop (10/28/2008)
  • Ekphrasis in Dostoevsky Two Female Portraits in The Idiot (10/29/2008)
  • Fact, Counter Fact, and the Ending of the Pacific War (10/30/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Sibirskii tsiryulnik, The Barber of Siberia (10/30/2008)
  • Classroom Assignment Support (10/31/2008)
  • Economic and Political Priorities of the Current Russian Administration (11/6/2008)
  • Russia ten years after default, new risks emerge (11/6/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Samotari, The Loners (11/6/2008)
  • International Law Society Russia/Georgia Forum (11/11/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Damskii portnoi, The Ladies Tailor (11/13/2008)
  • Stalin and Mao New Light from Russian Archives (11/13/2008)
  • Transcending the East-West Divide? Cosmopolitanism in Polish Postwar Cabaret and the Jewish Participation (11/18/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Tini zabutikh predkiv, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (11/20/2008)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Ivan Vasilevich minyaet professiyu, Ivan Vasilevich Changes Professions (12/4/2008)
  • The Mysterious Civilization of the Rock People (12/4/2008)
  • Global Sustainable Development - Infusing the Issues into the K-12 Classroom - ISSA Conference (1/17/2009)
  • Workshop International Careers in Government and the Non-Profit Sector (2/10/2009)
  • The Triumph of Politics over Economics in Russia (2/12/2009)
  • Maintaining the Center by Transforming Space Keeping the Nation at the Center of Daily Life in Zagreb, Croatia (2/24/2009)
  • Poetry Reading Male Female/Mortally Sick-Fervently Alive/Delete Where Necessary (2/26/2009)
  • Turkish Diasporas, Turkish Communities - Turkish Symposium (3/2/2009)
  • 2009 Joint Area Centers Symposium - A New Green Revolution? Meeting Global Food and Energy Demands (3/4/2009 - 3/6/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Ivanova Detstvo, My Name is Ivan (3/5/2009)
  • International Education Week (3/9/2009 - 3/15/2009)
  • Public Engagement Symposium and Technology Showcase (3/9/2009 - 5/9/2009)
  • International Careers in Business (3/10/2009)
  • Headscarves and Hotpants Debating Gender Equality, Secularism and Religious Freedoms in the New Europe (3/11/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Enemy at the Gates (3/12/2009)
  • 2010 Global Fest (3/13/2009 - 3/14/2009)
  • Cultures in Contact Using Corpus-Based Techniques to Discover the Influences of the English Culture on the Macedonian Culture (3/17/2009)
  • Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference (3/18/2009 - 3/21/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Komissar (3/19/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Grine Felder, Green Fields (4/2/2009)
  • Oleg Iuriev, Playwright, Novelist, Poet (4/4/2009)
  • Reform or Retrenchment Post-Communist Eurasia and the World Economic Crisis (4/9/2009)
  • Russia, Friend or Foe? (4/9/2009)
  • Russia, Friend or Foe? Interview (4/9/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Voskhozhdenye, The Ascent (4/9/2009)
  • Live and Local WILL FM Interview of Donna Buchanan and Georgi Andreev (4/14/2009)
  • Tsar/Emperor Discourse in Topography of Moscow Faceted Chamber GranovitaiaPalata in 17th-18th Centuries (4/14/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Ko To Tamo Peva?, Whos That Singing Over There? (4/16/2009)
  • I Explore - Moms Weekend (4/17/2009)
  • Klier Conference Jews in the East European Borderlands Daily Life, Violence, and Memory (4/19/2009 - 4/21/2009)
  • Illinois Council for Social Sciences Conference (4/20/2009)
  • Immigration and Europes New Cosmopolitans German-Turkish Encounters (4/21/2009)
  • Westview Elementary International Fair (4/22/2009)
  • Slavic language students Talent Show (4/23/2009)
  • Student briefing prior to Gorbachev lecture at Eureka College (4/23/2009)
  • Model United Nations Illinois (4/24/2009 - 4/25/2009)
  • Bridges New Horizons in Balkan Music (4/25/2009)
  • Bulgarian Illini Picturing Their Motherland (4/28/2009)
  • The Soviet Ballet and Nationalities Policy Manifestations and Influence in the Media, 1953-1968 (4/28/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Serp i Molot, Hammer and Sickle (4/30/2009)
  • Visiting Group from Ukraine (5/2/2009)
  • Foreign National Presentation (5/5/2009)
  • Classroom Assignment Support (5/7/2009)
  • Slavic Plus Film Series Jara Cimrman lezici, spici - Jara Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (5/7/2009)
  • Introduction to Russian Fairy Tales - The Frog Princess (5/19/2009)
  • Introduction to the Russian Alphabet (5/19/2009)
  • REEEC Library Exhibit (6/1/2009 - 6/30/2009)
  • Beloye Solntse Pustini, White Sun of the Desert, Russia, 1970 - Vladimir Motyl (6/8/2009)
  • Junior Scholars Training Workshop Blurring Boundaries and Shifting States Accession and Secession in Southeastern Europe (6/9/2009 - 6/10/2009)
  • Strategies of Representation Contemporary Artists Respond to Moslem-Christian Conflict in the Balkans (6/9/2009)
  • Symposium Evaluating the Effects of EU Accession Lessons for Southeast Europe (6/9/2009)
  • Junior Scholars Training Workshop Islam and Muslim Identities in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (6/10/2009 - 6/12/2009)
  • Kavkazskii Plennik, Prisoner of the Mountains, Russia, 1997 Sergei Bodrov (6/10/2009)
  • International Summer Institute Music in Many Languages (6/14/2009 - 6/19/2009)
  • Mephisto, Hungary, 1981 - Istvn Szab (6/15/2009)
  • SRL Russian History and Culture Discussion Group (6/15/2009 - 6/18/2009)
  • Current Developments in Russia (6/16/2009)
  • Junior Scholars Training Workshop Mobility in Russia and Eurasia (6/16/2009 - 6/18/2009)
  • Vlas Doroshevich and the Sakhalin Penal Colony (6/16/2009)
  • 2009 Fisher Forum Russias Role in Human Mobility Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (6/17/2009 - 6/19/2009)
  • Keynote Address Europe-Asia, Coast to Coast 2009 Fisher Forum (6/17/2009)
  • Mongol, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, 2007 Sergei Bodrov (6/17/2009)
  • The Visible Woman? Gender and the Composition of Post-Communist Leadership in Eastern Europe (6/18/2009)
  • Ostrov, The Island, Russia, 2006 Pavel Lungin (6/22/2009)
  • Vaccination Campaigns in Post-socialist Ukraine. When Body Politic and Citizens Bodies Intersect at the Crossroads of Global and Local (6/23/2009)
  • Curriculum Development Workshop on Russia, Poland, and Ukraine (6/24/2009 - 6/26/2009)
  • elary, Czech Republic - 2003 Ondej Trojan (6/24/2009)
  • How Does the European Union Work? 2009 EUC Teacher Workshop (6/24/2009 - 6/27/2009)
  • 26th Conference on Ukrainian Subjects (6/25/2009)
  • Researching in Uzbekistan Challenges and Opportunities (6/25/2009)
  • Before the Rain, Macedonia - 1994 Milcho Manchevski (6/29/2009)
  • Defending the Nation Against Whom? Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Axis Bulgaria (6/30/2009)
  • Witnesses, Croatia - 2003 Vinko Brean (7/1/2009)
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, Romania - 2003 Cristian Mungiu (7/6/2009)
  • Ethnicity in the Regional Legislation Elections in Russia and Ukraine (7/7/2009)
  • Piter FM, Russia - 2006 Oksana Bychkova (7/8/2009)
  • 2009 Midwest Summer Institute on Global Poverty and Inequality (8/3/2009 - 8/7/2009)
  • 2009 Midwest Summer Institute on World Food, Water and Energy (8/10/2009 - 8/14/2009)
  • Quad Day 2009 (8/23/2009)
  • Sweet Corn Festival (8/28/2009)
  • Global Lens Film Series I am From Titov VelesJas sum od Titov Veles (9/2/2009)
  • Van Coufoudakis The Cyprus Problem the EU and the European Convention of Human Rights (9/10/2009)
  • Film Screening Zelary 2003 (9/15/2009)
  • Ambassador Minikes Roundtable with Students (9/16/2009)
  • Graduate Student Resource Fair (9/17/2009)
  • Film Screening Masters of Russian Animation Mountain of Dinosaurs and others 1962-1968 (9/22/2009)
  • New Directions Barbara Engel Family Despotism and the Rights of the Person lichnost the Politics of the Personal in Late Imperial Russia (9/24/2009)
  • Westview Elementary Celebrate the Arts Fair (9/25/2009)
  • Film Screening Viy, or the Spirit of Evil 1967 (9/29/2009)
  • Noontime Scholars Rebecca Mitchell Music and Salvation in Late Imperial Russia A.N. Skriabin and Messiah (9/29/2009)
  • Interview with Journalism student Natasha Montague (10/1/2009)
  • Film Screening House of Fools 2002 (10/6/2009)
  • Major Minor Fair (10/6/2009)
  • Noontime Scholars Judith Pintar Feminine Nouns That End in a Consonant Conversations with Croatian Men A Poetry Reading (10/6/2009)
  • The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas Production and Transmission Why the Price We Pay at the Pump is Affected by U.S. Foreign Policy (10/6/2009)
  • Global Studies in Education (10/9/2009)
  • Current Events Forum Dropping the Missile Shield the U.S., Russia, and the New Stage of Geopolitical Swordsmanship (10/12/2009)
  • Film Screening King Lear 1969 (10/13/2009)
  • Film Screening Danielle Stodilka A Kingdom Reborn Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia (10/15/2009)
  • Global Lens Series Songs from the Southern Seas Pesn Juzhnykh Morej (10/15/2009)
  • Justyna Beinek Portable Graveyards - Russian and Polish Albums in the Romantic Culture of Memory (10/15/2009)
  • Film Screening Assa 1987 (10/20/2009)
  • Noontime Scholars Lilya Kaganovsky There Is No Acoustic Relation Considerations on Sound and Image in Kira Muratovas The Sentimental Policeman (10/20/2009)
  • Film Screening Katyn 2007 (10/27/2009)
  • Film Screening Better Than Escape (11/3/2009)
  • Noontime Scholars Jesse Murray Recreating Community Conversion to Orthodoxy in Buriariia, 1860-1917 (11/3/2009)
  • Current Events Forum Global Security, Climate Change, and the Arctic (11/5/2009)
  • New Directions Douglas Rogers The Old Faith and the Russian land Recombinant Ethics in the Urals (11/9/2009)
  • Remembering 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall (11/9/2009)
  • Film Screening Admiral (11/10/2009)
  • Noontime Scholars Marina Mogilner The enigma of Russian race Russian physical anthropology of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries (11/10/2009)
  • Berlin Wall Symposium (11/11/2009 - 11/13/2009)
  • Richard Tempest Intrigue, Money, Terror, War The Geopolitics of the Former Soviet Union (11/16/2009)
  • Film Screenung Koktebel (11/17/2009)
  • Film Screening Roots (12/1/2009)
  • International Careers Workshop (12/1/2009)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series Andranik Migranyan Is New Agenda for Russian-American Relations Possibly? (12/3/2009)
  • MillerComm Andrew Moravcsik Why is Europe, not China or India, the Second Superpower of the 21st Century? (1/27/2010)
  • Angela Brintlinger Empty Nests War and Sacrifice in Soviet Fiction (1/29/2010)
  • FLAS Workshop for Undergrad and Grad Students (1/29/2010)
  • Interview Richard Tempest Interview with Daily Illini (1/29/2010)
  • Turkish Studies Symposium Violence, Trauma and Displacement in Eurasia and the Middle East (1/29/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Maryna Hets The Glorious Past of the Republic of Belarus from a Personal Perspective (2/16/2010)
  • Lecture Lynn Visson The Work and Life of a Conference Interpreter at the UN (2/19/2010)
  • Lynn Visson Workshop Terminology and Procedures (2/19/2010 - 2/21/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Elizabeth Spreng It Doesnt Matter Emotions and Endangerment in Bilingual Lusatia Germany (2/23/2010)
  • Slavic Graduate Students Association Conference on Slavic Studies (2/27/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Ho Yeon Cho The Historical Sciences of North Korea and the Soviet Union in the 1950s (3/2/2010)
  • Public Engagement Symposium (3/3/2010)
  • New Directions Frances Nethercott Scholars, Popularizers, and Ideologues Images of the Historian in Tsarist and Soviet Russia (3/4/2010)
  • New Directions Anne Lounsbery Symbolic Geography in Russian Literature Meaning, Meaningless, Provinciality (3/11/2010)
  • Uncle Vanya presented by Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe (3/12/2010)
  • GlobalFest (3/13/2010)
  • Lev Dodin Discussion following performance of Uncle Vanya (3/13/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Colleen McQuillen Life-Creation or Parody Symbolist Constructions of Gender in Life and Literature (3/16/2010)
  • New Directions Sasha Tsenkova Informality, Inequality and Transformation in the Post-Socialist City (4/1/2010)
  • International Education Week (4/5/2010 - 4/11/2010)
  • Kaufman, Wallace Lecture to REES201 (4/7/2010)
  • Annual Center Conference Donna Buchanan Soundscapes of the Spirit, Cosmology and Sound Art from the Black to Aral Seas (4/8/2010 - 4/10/2010)
  • Gill, Denise Live and Local with Kevin Kelly Will FM 90.9 (4/8/2010)
  • Stig Fredrikson at Urbana Free Library (4/12/2010)
  • T. Ataov Turks and Armenians What Really Happened on April 24, 1915 (4/12/2010)
  • Stig Fredrikson From Our Correspondent in Moscow Reporting on Solzhenitsyn, the Kremlin and the KGB (4/15/2010)
  • Current Events Forum A Polish Tragedy The Death of President Lech Kaczynski and Its Meaning for Poland and the World (4/16/2010)
  • Explore Illinois Moms Weekend (4/16/2010)
  • International Symposium on Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (4/16/2010 - 4/17/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Peter Nardulli Climate Change, Cataclysmic Events and Societal Stability A Quasi-experimental Analysis (4/20/2010)
  • Slavic Language Students Talent Show 2010 (4/21/2010)
  • Jim Wagenlander Talk (4/23/2010)
  • Balkanalia Dancing down the Danube and across the Black Sea (4/24/2010)
  • Olympiada of Spoken Russian (4/24/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Ardian Gola Kosova - The Newborn State (4/27/2010)
  • Community Outreach Richard Tempest Spotlight on Opera What Makes it Russian? Tchaikovsky and the Slavic Sound (5/10/2010)
  • Stig Fredriksons International Review Interview (5/12/2010)
  • Film Screening The Orator (6/14/2010)
  • Junior Scholars Workshop State, Society, and Modernity in Central Asia (6/14/2010 - 6/16/2010)
  • Junior Scholars Workshop Understanding the Black Sea as Region (6/14/2010 - 6/16/2010)
  • Film Series I am Twenty Years Old dir. Marlen Khutsiyev (6/15/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Jason Strakes State Formation and Conflict Dynamics in Post-Soviet Central Asia Applications to Regional Security (6/15/2010)
  • Film Screening Cherry Town dir. Gerbert Rappaport (6/17/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Mariya Radeva Naturally European how sustainable development transformed environmental activism in Bulgaria since EU accession (6/17/2010)
  • Russian Culture and History Discussion Group (6/21/2010 - 6/24/2010)
  • Film Series Born in 45 (6/22/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Elizabeth Blake Examining Political, Ethnic and Religious Dimensions to the Siberian Experiences of Poles from Dostoevskys Dead House (6/22/2010)
  • Film Series Wings dir. Larisa Shepitko (6/24/2010)
  • International Conference The Socialist Sixties Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global Perspective (6/24/2010)
  • Slavic Reading Hour Reading of Sashas Matryoshka Dolls (6/26/2010)
  • Film Screening Knife in the Water (6/29/2010)
  • Noontime Scholars Robert Przygrodzki Russians, Poles, Art and the Politics of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Warsaw (6/29/2010)
  • Film Screening Up and Down (7/1/2010)
  • Film Screening Nine Days of One Year (7/6/2010)
  • Film Screening Loves of a Blonde (7/8/2010)
  • Slavic Reading Hour Reading Firebird (7/10/2010)
  • Film Screening Innocent Sorcerers (7/13/2010)
  • Film Screening A Report on the Party and the Guests (7/15/2010)
  • REEEC Website Job and Funding Opportunities Page (7/16/2010)
  • Film Screening Innocence Unprotected (7/20/2010)
  • REEEC Outreach Calendar (7/20/2010)
  • Film Series Man is not a Bird and Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (7/22/2010)
  • Quad Day (8/22/2010)
  • Diane Koenker The Gulag in Soviet History (8/23/2010)
  • Diane Koenker The Soviet Gulag Experience and Memory (8/23/2010)
  • Russian Life and Culture An Introduction by Alisha Kirchoff (9/3/2010)
  • Slavic Reading Hour A little story about a Big Turnip (9/4/2010)
  • Polish ImPotence Framing Polish Labor Migration on the European Screen (9/15/2010)
  • The Fall 2010 SSRC TITLE VIII Eurasia Program Dissertation Support Fellows Workshop Willis Regier Publishing Your Dissertation, Preparing for University Presses (9/15/2010)
  • Graduate Student Resource Fair (9/17/2010)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture Stephanie Chung A Tale of Two Aleshas The Changing Face of Soviet Film in The Fall of Berlin and Ballad of a Soldier. (9/21/2010)
  • LAS Majors and Minors Fair (9/28/2010)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture Series Silviu Hariton War monuments in Romania, 1900s-1930s (9/28/2010)
  • Slavic Reading Hour At the wish of the Fish (10/2/2010)
  • Alexander Martyov - Lunch with Aerospace Engineering faculty Tim Bertl and Soon-Jo Chung (10/4/2010)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series Alexander Martynov Manned Mission to Mars (10/4/2010)
  • Alexander Martynov - Brief talk for REEE 200 Class (10/5/2010)
  • Alexander Martynov - Lunch with engineering students (10/5/2010)
  • International Careers Workshop Series 2010-2011Campus Resources for International Careers (10/6/2010)
  • Midwest Russian History Workshop (10/8/2010 - 10/9/2010)
  • Campus Visit (10/13/2010)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture Series Roman Licko A Welcome Overstayed Milan Hodza in the Documents of the US Administration, 1941 - 1944 (10/19/2010)
  • Illinois History Teachers Conference (10/21/2010)
  • New Directions in Russian East European and Eurasian Studies Barbara Skinner Fault Lines of Faith Rethinking Orthodoxy in Russias Western Borderlands (10/28/2010)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series - Artemyi Troitsky The History of Russian Rock /n/ Roll (11/1/2010)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series Artemyi Troitsky The history of Russian Rock and Roll (11/1/2010)
  • WILL Focus 580 Interview Artemyi Troitsky The History of Russian Rock /n/ Roll (11/1/2010)
  • Campus Visit (11/3/2010)
  • REEEC Career Development Brown Bags - Developing an Effective CV Make your Area Studies Expertise Work for You (11/4/2010)
  • Slavic Reading Hour The Frog Princess (11/6/2010)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture Marina Balina Soviet Children go to War Narrating WWII in Soviet Literature for the Young (11/9/2010)
  • Meeting with unit Bulgarian Student Association Valentin Dontchev (11/11/2010)
  • New Directions in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Colloquium Series Augusta Dimou Constructing the Social Cooperatives in interwar Bulgaria (11/11/2010)
  • Round Table discussion Valentin Dontchev Current Challenges and Opportunities for Bulgaria. (11/11/2010)
  • Global Lens - Ordinary People Vladimir Persic, Serbia, 2009 (11/18/2010)
  • REEEC Career Development Brown Bags - What do I want to be when I grow up? Identifying career resources for area studies expertise (12/2/2010)
  • Lost Poland - A selection of historical photographs recovered from filmstrips produced by the Polish government in the 1930s (12/3/2010 - 1/21/2011)
  • Rebecca Mitchell - Talk prior to second showing of the Shostakovich Cycle (12/7/2010)
  • Shoshtakovich Symposium (12/7/2010)
  • REEEC Career Development Brown Bags - Carolyn Cooper Living and Working in Russia (1/20/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Andy Bruno Igniting Russias Northern Lights The Natures of Twentieth-Century Economic Transformation in a Polar Region (1/25/2011)
  • Kathy Johson - Diplomat in Residence Visit International Careers with the State Department (2/4/2011)
  • Slavic Reading Hour The Twelve Months (2/5/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Tatiana Afanasyeva Political Socialization of Youth in Post-Soviet States (2/8/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Diana Georgescu Children of the Golden Age Social and Discursive Practices of Socialist Patriotism in Ceausescus Romania (2/15/2011)
  • New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Maria Bucur-Decard Gender and Everyday Citizenship in Communist Romania (2/17/2011)
  • 2nd Annual SGSA Conference (2/26/2011)
  • Terrell Star - Journalism Brown Bag (2/28/2011)
  • Terrell Starr - REEEC and Slavic Graduate Student Roundtable (2/28/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Terrell Starr Black in Ukraine (3/1/2011)
  • Terrell Starr - Office of Minority Student Affairs Event, Travel the World for Free (3/1/2011)
  • Terrell Starr - Presentation at Arsenal Tech High School (3/2/2011)
  • Slavic Reading Hour Luba and the Wren (3/5/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Anna Arkatova Spectrum of Four Femininities in A. Solzhenitsyns Novel Red Wheel (3/8/2011)
  • Gyrgy Szapry, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the United States State of the European Union Address (3/9/2011)
  • Mikls Martin-Kovcs, Hungarian Investment and Trade Commissioner Student Workshop Careeers and Professionalism in East Europe (3/9/2011)
  • Transatlantic Security Symposium The End of National European Armies? (3/9/2011)
  • New Postsocialist Ontologies and Politics The Annual Symposium of Soyuz The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies (3/11/2011 - 3/12/2011)
  • North, South, East, West! 2011 Global Fest (3/11/2011 - 3/12/2011)
  • Olympiada 2011 (3/19/2011)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture - Elena Jakel The experiences of Soviet Jews in Ukraine immediately after the Holocaust (3/29/2011)
  • Lynn Visson - International Careers in Translation (3/31/2011)
  • JACS - Iran Symposium Iran at Large The Global Emergence of a Regional Power? (4/1/2011 - 4/3/2011)
  • Joint Area Center Symposium - Iran Symposium Iran at Large The Global Emergence of a Regional Power? (4/1/2011 - 4/2/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time Salt (4/2/2011)
  • Film Screening - Alisha Kirchoff The Sweetest Embrace Return to Afghanistan (4/5/2011)
  • International Education Week (4/5/2011 - 5/12/2011)
  • New Directions in Russian East European Eurasian Studies - Olga Shevchenko Crisis as a Way of Life Logics of the Everyday in the 1990s Russia (4/7/2011)
  • MA Practitioners Workshop (4/9/2011)
  • No Country of Our Time? Flim Screening and Discussion (4/11/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Alla Salnikova The Discovery of Russian Childhood A Century of Studies (4/12/2011)
  • Illinois International with Hungarian Ambassador (4/13/2011)
  • Global Studies Forum Exploring International Humanitarian Law (4/16/2011)
  • Distinguished Speaker - Krastyo Petkov A comparative sociological study of attitudes within the EU the case of the new members from Eastern/Central Europe and the Balkans (4/18/2011)
  • New Directions in Russian East European Studies - Olga Bendina Living Positively Negotiating Identities Among HIV Positive Women in Saratov (4/21/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Natalya Khokholova The Role of Money and Gossip in Princess Rostopchinas Society Tale Rank and Money (4/26/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time Misery (5/7/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time The chatterer (6/4/2011 - 7/4/2011)
  • Summer Film Series - Chico (6/13/2011)
  • Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World SILMW (6/13/2011 - 8/6/2011)
  • Nootime Scholars Lecture Russell Zanca What happened to the idea of normal state development in Central Asia? Globalization in Failing States. (6/15/2011)
  • Summer Film Series - Cherry Town (6/15/2011)
  • Curriculum Development Workshop - Violence Overload? Promoting Sensitivity to Human Suffering the Case of Bosnia (6/19/2011 - 6/22/2011)
  • Summer film series No Mans Land (6/20/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture Elana Jakel Comrades and Conspirators Jews and Jobs in Post-WWII Ukraine (6/21/2011)
  • Summer Film Series - Before the Rain (6/22/2011)
  • Fisher Forum - Finding a Place in the Soviet Empire Cultural Production and the Friendship of Nations (6/26/2011 - 6/28/2011)
  • Fisher Forum Finding a Place in the Soviet Empire Cultural Production and the Friendship of Nations (6/26/2011)
  • Summer Noontime Lecture - Rob Whiting Space, Place, and Nationalism Constituting, Transmitting, and Contesting National Identity in the Urban Landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850-1940 (6/28/2011)
  • Summer Film Series - I am twenty years old (6/29/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time The most beautiful flower (7/9/2011)
  • 2011 International Summer Institute Protecting the Vulnerable in International Conflict Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (7/25/2011 - 7/29/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time The Son of the Sun and the Daughter of the Moon (8/6/2011)
  • Quad Day (8/21/2011)
  • Jewish Studies Workshop - Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town (8/30/2011)
  • Day of Knowledge Urbana Free Library (9/3/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Bruce Wicks From West to East A Travelogue and Tourism Development in Russia (9/13/2011)
  • WILL Focus 580 - My Perestroika with Robin Hessman (9/15/2011)
  • My Perestroika Robin Hessman Art Theater Screening (9/19/2011)
  • My Perestroika Robin Hessman Drop-In question hour with Media Students (9/19/2011)
  • My Perestroika Robin Hessman Guest Speaker to Russian Language Class (9/19/2011)
  • My Perestroika Robin Hessman REEEC Screening (9/19/2011)
  • Dirk Uffelmann - Ethics vs. Aesthetics in Dostoevskiis Legend of the Grand Inquisitor (9/21/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Curtis RichardsonCivilizing the State and Family Redefining Patriarchy and Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Russia. (10/4/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Polina Barskova Writing/Reading the Happy Ending for the Siege of Leningrad (10/11/2011)
  • European Union Center Lecture - Gabor Daroczi The Post-socialist Changes in Europe and the Roma minority Importance of educational strategies to future improvement (10/20/2011)
  • International Careers at the World Bank (10/24/2011)
  • Noontime Scholar Lecture - Natalya Khokholova Orientalism Russian Style (10/25/2011)
  • Dassia Posner - Of Mirrors and Meyerhold Hoffmanic Reflections in Columbines Veil and The Inspector General (10/27/2011)
  • Vedran Dzihic - Looming Crisis of Democracy Lessons from Two Decades of Post-Yugoslav Democratization (11/1/2011)
  • New Direction in Russian East European and Eurasian Studies - Sergei Markedonov The Caucasus region as crossroads of interests to Russia, Turkey, Iran, USA and EU. (11/10/2011)
  • Meeting with faculty from Vladivostok (11/14/2011)
  • Consider a Career with the CIA (11/15/2011)
  • The Festival of Trees - Uncle Vovas Tree (11/19/2011)
  • Three Stories of Galicia Ukrainian Documentary (11/30/2011)
  • Maciej Pisarski - Implications of the Polish Presidency of the EU for Europe and Transatlantic Affairs (12/2/2011)
  • Slavic Story Time - The little snowgirl (12/3/2011)
  • Unit 4 Resource Fair (12/6/2011)
  • Professor Richard Tempest on the protests in Russia (1/2/2012)
  • Slavic Story Time - The Animals Revenge (1/7/2012)
  • WILL 580 Focus Interview - Andrew Kuchins The Russian Presidential Elections (1/25/2012)
  • Bottenfield Multicultural Night (1/26/2012)
  • Men of the Same Blood Putin, Medvedev and the Future of Russia (1/26/2012 - 3/15/2012)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series - Andrew Kuchins Russias Leadership and U.S.-Russia Relations (2/2/2012)
  • OLLI Noontime Lecture - Andrew Kuchins The Return of Politics to Russia Can Putinism Survive? (2/3/2012)
  • Noontime Lecture Series - Nick Hryhorczuk My tour of Chernobyl A heritage story told through pictures (2/7/2012)
  • International Careers Workshop Series CAMPUS RESOURCES FOR INTERNATIONAL CAREERS (2/8/2012)
  • Slavic Graduate Students Association SGSA Conference - Discourse across boarders Slavic Studies from Kievan Rus to Present Day (2/24/2012 - 2/25/2012)
  • 2012 Olympiada (2/25/2012)
  • Joint Area Centers Symposium Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World (3/1/2012 - 3/3/2012)
  • New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Malte Rolf Imperial Biographies in Multiethnic Empires. The Habsburg and the Russian Empires in Comparison (3/1/2012)
  • The Life of a UN Interpreter and Recent Trends in Interpreter Training - Lynn Visson (3/1/2012)
  • Champaign Greek Film Festival (3/2/2012 - 3/3/2012)
  • Champaign Greek Film Festival (3/2/2012 - 3/3/2012)
  • Coffee and meet with student - Deirdre Ruscitti (3/2/2012)
  • Slavic Story Time - Hristo Alexiev Bulgarian Folk Music (3/3/2012)
  • EUC Lecture Series - Zsuzsa Gille What is Red in Hungarys 2010 Red Mud Disaster? (3/9/2012)
  • Global Fest (3/9/2012)
  • Noontime Lecture Series - Maria Galamarini The Politics of Gender and Single Mothers Right to be Helped in Soviet Russia between1917 and 1950 (3/13/2012)
  • Critical thinking exercise - CIA Intelligence Analysts (3/14/2012)
  • Edison Middle School International Day (3/15/2012)
  • How to Market your International Experience and Skills to Employers (3/28/2012)
  • New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Laura Henry The Future of Russias Frozen Forests Do Global Governance Initiatives in Climate and Forestry Influence Russian Environmental Policy? (3/29/2012)
  • Steven Zipperstein On Rewriting the Cultural History of Russian Jewry (4/2/2012)
  • Jewish Studies Workshop - Steven Zipperstein Kishinevs Pogrom in Mythology and History The Transmutation of the 1903 Riot in Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Politics, and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (4/3/2012)
  • Intro to World Music - Donna Buchanan Bulgarian vocal music (4/4/2012)
  • The Traditional Art of Ukrainian Pysanky (4/4/2012)
  • Ukrainian Egg Painting (4/4/2012)
  • International Week (4/9/2012 - 4/15/2012)
  • Peace Corps Information Session (4/11/2012)
  • Noontime Scholars Lecture - Olena Zhylinkova Comparative Legal Aspects of Internet Relations in the Global Information Community- Experience of Post-Soviet Countries (4/17/2012)
  • Distinguished Lecture Series - Andrei Levkin iHoly eGrail of the Russian Cultural Moment Literary and Political Strategies in the Modern Russian Context (4/19/2012)
  • Balkanalia - Sorrowful Love Songs of Heartbreak and Longing from Albania to Armenia (4/25/2012)
  • Film Screening The Singing Revolution (4/25/2012)
  • Marina Kaljurand - Estonias Singing Revolution Estonias Experiences Prior to and Since Integration into the EU (4/25/2012)
  • Sixth Annual Turkish Studies Symposium - Turkish Transnational Television Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon (4/27/2012)
  • Summer Research Lab Noontime Lecture - Douglas Blum The Social Process of Cultural Globalization A Case Study from Kazakhstan (6/12/2012)
  • Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum - Political Spaces in Eurasia Global Contexts, Local Outcomes (6/13/2012 - 6/15/2012)
  • 2012 International Summer Institute - Global Protest Movements (6/18/2012 - 6/22/2012)
  • SWSEEL - Summer 2012- Week 6, Film Screening of Putins Kiss (7/11/2012)
  • HOW CAN THE SLAVIC REFERENCE SERVICE SRS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BE USEFUL IN ASSISTING DEPARTMENT OF STATE ANALYSTS/FSOS? (7/17/2012)
  • Expert Analytical Exchange for Ambassador Susan Elliot Tajikistan - Labor Migration from Tajikistan Opportunities, Risks and Obligations (8/1/2012)
  • Midwest Institute for International/Intercultural Education MIIIE Summer Workshop (8/13/2012 - 8/17/2012)
  • MIIIE Summer Workshop on International Conflict and Cooperation (8/15/2012)
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