2025 Slavic Digital Film Festival
Welcome to the 2025 Slavic Student Digital Film Festival.
Invite your friends, pop some popcorn, and sit back and be amazed by our students' creativity, language skills, and dedicatio
REEEC and Slavic Host Fundraiser in Chicago to Support Ukrainian Studies at Illinois
On September 28, 2025, REEEC, the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, and the Ukrainian Studies Fund hosted a public engagement event in Chicago at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. This event raised over $50,000 in support of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois...
Slavic Welcomes a New Bulgarian Studies Lecturer
As a part of the Bulgarian Studies Initiative, sponsored by the Republic of Bulgaria and jointly organized by REEEC and the Slavic Department, Iliyana...
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Students Win Awards
The annual Slavic talent show and awards ceremony on May 1 showcased a large number of awards won by Slavic language students, from national awards and honor society memberships to local scholarships and fellowships. ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay ContestU of I students made a...
Robinson wins Fulbright
Congratulations to Prof. Valleri Robinson (Theatre), who has received a 2025-2026 U.S. Scholar Fulbright to develop the book, “Directing in Context: Javor Gardev’s Theatre of Vulnerability, 1994-2024.” Gardev’s theoretically robust theatrical contributions began with his daring directorial...
Slavic event featured in WILL story
"The Hamlet Syndrome," an award winning documentary by Polish filmmakers Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski, was featured in a screening event on campus on February 6, sponsored by the Slavic Department and library's Slavic Reference Service, with discussion led by Professor Valleri Robinson...
Student Projects
Media on this page were created by students in Slavic courses as class projects.
2018
2018's Slavic Department Talent Show took place on Friday, Apr 20. See some of the highlights below.
Murav Wins Heldt Book Prize
Congratulations to Professor Harriet Murav, who was awarded the 2024 Heldt Prize for best book introducing new, innovative, and/or underrepresented perspectives into any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies for her book, As The Dust of the Earth: The Literature of...