The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
We Condemn the Military Assault on Ukraine
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the home of many scholars and students who have dedicated their lives to the study of Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia. Many people from...
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- This statement was drafted by the Slavic Graduate Students' Association and approved by Slavic Faculty. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stands united with those all over the nation rightfully protesting to demand an immediate end to police violence against Black people. We join our voices with...
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- Graduate Student Tyler Dolan has been awarded an ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grant for summer 2022. The grants are funded by ASEEES donors and members and offer up to $6000 grants for dissertation writing on any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline....
- Professor George Gasyna was interviewed again for the Polish Institute in New York's ongoing Encounters with Polish Literature series on the topic of the author Joseph Conrad. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the series has turned to exploring some of the many literary connections between...
- Professor Eugene Avrutin (History, affiliate with Slavic) has published an important new study of the history of race and racism in Russia with Bloomsbury. Racism in Modern Russia: From the Romanovs to Putin examines the developing scientific and popular discourses on race in Russia over...
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