What led to the attempted coup in Brazil, what comes next?
IGI executive director Jerry Dávila, who specializes in the history of Brazil in the 20th century, recently spoke to the Illinois News Bureau about civil unrest in Brazil.
This fellowship provides support for critical language training necessary to fields of academic and professional development for UIUC graduate students. Read more here.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna Brittney Nadler (majored in Global Studies and Spanish) recently was awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard...
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is now a sustaining member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network of higher education institutions and associations dedicated to protecting scholars and promoting academic freedom around the world...
The European Union Center will be hosting political scientist and writer Ivan Krastev, who will speak on “Russia’s War in Ukraine: Reimagining the East-West Divide in Europe,” on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in room 300 of the Levis Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana. Click...
African Atlantic Histories and Visual Cultures. This is an inter-disciplinary course on the diverse histories and visual cultures of Africa and it’s trans-Atlantic diasporas from the late fifteenth century to the present. The course will be organized around specific themes rather than on chronology...
This course offers comparative perspectives of the urban and commercial history of the African Atlantic and East African Indian Ocean worlds from c. 1000 C.E to c. 1870 through artifacts and material goods. We will examine religious artifacts, trade commodities and architectural forms and their...
Historical grammar, origin, and development of the East Slavic/Russian literary language, survey of literary genres of Old Russian Literature.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; for undergraduates, completion of or placement beyond RUSS 301-RUSS 302; or, consent of instructor.
Interdisciplinary introduction to the ways of life of Latin American peoples, their origins and current expressions; discusses social, economic issues, and domestic and international policies related to them in the context of other societies in developing countries.
Interdisciplinary survey of Eastern Europe focusing mostly on the 20th century to the present, exploring issues of nationalism, socialism, post socialism and EU accession. Focuses on Central Europe and the Balkans, but also references the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Students will...
What is Russia? This survey course explores this question through the history of the peoples and territories of medieval Rus’, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, from ninth century to the present. Key themes include how “Russia” has been understood and defined, both...