Go to News 2006

Congratulations to the new members of the National Slavic Honor Society "Dobro Slovo"
for 2007:
Vladimir Brilliant
Sarah Carsey
Stephanie Dold
Douglas Heintz
Olga Tarasova

Congratulations to Elizabeth Ann Berry who took the first place in the ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest (category I [non-heritage speakers], level II).

Lecture, October 9, 12.00 pm: "Hip-Hop, Migration, and the Racialization of Class Identities in post-Orange Revolution Ukraine" Adriana Helbig, Musicology, University of Illinois (101 ISB)

Lecture, October 9, 7.30 pm: "Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz" Jan Gross, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar, UIUC and History, Princeton University (Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center)

Lecture, September 21, 12.00 pm: "Trafficking in the Balkans: Screening Imaginary and Real Trauma" Yana Hashamova, Slavic, Ohio State University, Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 Foreign Languages Building)

Conference, September 21-22: "Building the Balkans Anew: From Metaphor to Market" REEEC Annual Conference

Keynote Address, September 21, 4.00 pm: “Highways, Roadblocks and Empires” Robert Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law, and Public & International Affairs; Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh (126 Library and Information Science)

Lecture, September 11, 12.00 pm: "The Ecstasy of Big Ideas': Building Yugoslav Tourism through the Five Year Plan, 1947-1951" Kate Meehan Pedrotty, History, University of Illinois (101 ISB)

Lecture, August 28, 12.00 pm: "Mass Inventing Friendship: Propaganda for the USSR in Stalinist Poland" Jan C. Behrends, Research Fellow, Social Science Research Center (WZB), Berlin; Humboldt Scholar, University of Chicago (101 ISB)

Lecture, September 6, 7.30 pm: "The Last Days of Isaac Babel" Jonathan Brent, History, Bard College, and editorial director, Yale University Press (3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center)

Lecture, June 13, 12.00 pm: "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Assessing the 50th Anniversary Debate" Federigo Argentieri, Political Science, Temple University Rome Campus - John Cabot University (101 ISB)

2007 Fisher Forum, June 14-16: “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as Writer, Myth-Maker and Public Figure in the 21st Century”

Lecture, June 20, 12.00 pm: "Election Reform in Putin's Russia" Bryon Moraski, Political Science, University of Florida (101 ISB)

Summer Research Laboratory, June11-August 3.

Lecture, April 23, 12.00 pm: "Imagined Community: The Experience of Solidarity in Polish Literature, 1980-2005" Przemyslaw Czaplinski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan , Poland, (Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB).

Czech Workshop, March 31-April 1: Czechs in the New and Old Europe: New Approaches

Lecture, April 17, 12.00 pm: "Articulation and Perceptions of National Ideology in 19th Century Plovdiv" Andreas Lyberatos, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, (101 ISB).

Lecture, April 19, 4.00 pm: “The State of the Stars: Modjeska and the Warsaw Imperial Theater” Beth Holmgren, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, (101 ISB).

Lecture, March 8, 12.00 pm: “'We Are Nostalgic but We Are Not Crazy': Retrofitting the Past in Russia" Serguei Oushakine, Slavic, Princeton University, (Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB)

Lecture, March 13, 12.00 pm: “Contested Sovereignties: The Russian Empire and Indigenous Siberian Political Culture in the 17th Century” Alexandra Haugh, History, Northwestern University (101 ISB)

Lecture, March 26, 7.30 pm: “Bones of Contention: The Making and Meaning of a National Hero (Vasil Levski)” Maria Todorova, History, UIUC (Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center)

Czech Workshop, March 31-April 1: Czechs in the New and Old Europe: New Approaches

Symposium, February 2, 4.30-6.30 pm: Current Issues in Bulgarian Studies.
An Interdisciplinary Symposium and Round Table Discussion (Illini Union 470).

Lecture, February 6, 12.00-1.00 pm: "Healers and Pilgrims: Syncretism and Shrine-based Islam in Kazakhstan" Margarethe Adams, Ethnomusicology, UIUC (101 ISB).

Lecture, February 20, 12.00-1.00 pm: "Authority, Legality, and the Disintegration of the Jewish Community in the Western Borderlands" Eugene Avrutin, History, UIUC, (101 ISB).

Lecture, January 23, 12 pm: "The Transnational Recruitment of Post-communist Elites: Emigres, Linguists and Resume Managers" Carol Leff, Political Science, UIUC, (101 ISB).