Summer Language Workshop in Review
This past June and July, IU Bloomington hosted over 200 students for the 68th annual Summer Language Workship.
Sarah Phillips, Director
Volume 41, Number 3
Nicholas Jackson, Editor
Fall 2017
Times are always exciting at REEI, but this fall seems especially busy and vibrant! With Russia-U.S. relations taking such twists and turns, REEI’s mission to advance scholarship, teaching, and K-12 outreach on the REE region is more important than ever.
This past June and July, IU Bloomington hosted over 200 students for the 68th annual Summer Language Workship.
On September 14th, REEI hosted its annual fall reception in the University Club President’s Room at the Indiana Memorial Union.
The 49th Annual ASEEES Convention will be held in Chicago, IL on November 9-12, 2017 at the Marriot Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile (540 N Michigan Avenue).
View a list of new M.A. students.
View a list of visiting scholars.
Thanks to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a Russian Studies Workshop (RSW) for strengthening Russian Studies in the social sciences now thrives at IU under the direction of Prof. Regina Smyth.
Wookjin Cheun, Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies and Associate Librarian, reports that the following substantial resources have recently been added to IU Libraries.
The prime minister of the Republic of Estonia, Jüri Ratas, visited Indiana University to deliver a public address on Tuesday, Aug. 29, in the Global and International Studies Building's auditorium as a guest of the IU School of Global and International Studies and the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.
From August 22nd to December 17th (2017), Indiana University Bloomington’s Mathers Museum of World Cultures plays host to a photographic exhibition illustrating a recent string of protests in the Republic of Macedonia.
This summer, Dr. Halina Goldberg, Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music and affiliate faculty with the Russian and East European Institute, Polish Studies Center, and Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, spent two weeks in upstate New York participating in the Bard Music Festival.
If you were in Southeast Europe this summer, one thing probably captured your attention: the heat.
On September 7th, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center and the Pan-Asia Institute hosted a lecture by Dr. Ablet Kamalov of Turan University, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Amidst a challenging environment for Russian-US relations, three Indiana University alumni are upholding the REEI and Hoosier spirit while serving at the US Consulate General in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Ben Eklof (History) and Tatiana Saburova (History) have co-authored A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika with Indiana University Press.
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The Russian and East European Institute (REEI) was established in 1958 on Indiana University's Bloomington campus.