Slavic Reference Service

05/26/2026

Another special event at AABS 2026 is a concert featuring Lithuanian Choral Ensemble DAINAVA. More details here - https://buff.ly/hmxKL8d and the program can be found here - https://buff.ly/JFXoEy5. Join us if you are in the area!

Chicago based, Lithuanian Choral Ensemble DAINAVA is a dynamic cultural ensemble of 80 members actively pursuing fresh, new musical selections to complement its current inventory of Lithuanian folk music. The concert, open to the public, is a part of the 30th biennial conference of the Association f...

05/22/2026

As a part of the 30th biennial conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Laima Vincė will host a book talk and sale at the Illini Union Bookstore on May 29. Read more about Vincė's work on the Peter Lang International Academic Publishers website -

I live in a vanished land that reappeared on the world’s map only thirty-six years ago, when Lithuania reinstated its independence.

05/21/2026

We are excited to welcome Baltic studies scholars, students, and diaspora members to our campus next week.🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 For the full program, please see here - https://aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at-uiuc/program/

05/15/2026

Digital Resource Spotlight: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no - politicheskoi istorii

Find digitized guides to the archive's extensive collections on their website. Documents include items related to the social and political history of Western Europe (17th to early 20th centuries); documents on the political and social history of Russia and the USSR in modern and contemporary times (late 19th to early 21st centuries); and documents on the history of the international workers' socialist and communist movement (1860s to late 1980s).

https://rgaspi-site.dlibrary.org/en/nodes/1-fondy-rgaspi

04/21/2026

The SRS is hosting an informal virtual workshop on AI Applications in REEES Research on April 23 at 2:00 pm Central US and Canada Time. We recognize that there is a lot of excitement and anxiety associated with artificial intelligence and its role in the research process. Through this informal workshop, we are selectively highlighting AI applications and facilitating a discussion.

The following applications will be covered: AI Digital Archivist App, Collections Metadata, Model Context Protocol and AI Clients, NotebookLM, Google Scholar Labs, Alisa AI and Semantic Scholar.

Please fill out this form if you are interested in attending: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdajD8htityiMKpYUbrtitDphsYD6-dYUY-euCS6onQJEruMg/viewform?usp=header

Please note, the workshop will be held via Zoom.

The SRS is hosting an informal virtual workshop on AI Applications in REEES Research on April 23 at 2:00 pm Central US and Canada Time. We recognize that there is a lot of excitement and anxiety associated with artificial intelligence and its role in the research process. Through this informal works...

04/17/2026

Next week, on April 24, 2026, at 11:00 am CT, join us for a virtual roundtable discussion commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and reflecting on its lasting impact. All are welcome!

Please register here:
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04/09/2026

Coming up this weekend! The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will host the UIUC Slavic Graduate Forum on April 11 (11:30 am–5:00 pm) and April 12 (9:00 am–12:30 pm) in the Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB).

Graduate students from universities across the United States will present papers exploring the theme “Nationality, Identity, Memory.” All are welcome!

04/08/2026

Happening tomorrow, April 9th at 11:00 AM US Central Time!

Please join us for this special roundtable discussion on Working with Gender and Sexuality Sources in SEEES.

Register here: https://forms.gle/JZJQw4xRuzGpWnxJ9

04/03/2026

Exciting news this week for researchers of Balkan theater, Macedonian culture, and Slavic performing arts!

The complete digital archive of the journal "Teatarski glasnik" (Theater Messenger), which spans nearly five decades from 1977 to 2024, is now available for public access. The archive can be accessed here: https://archive.org/details/teatarski-glasnik-archive?sort=title

"Teatarski glasnik" is a primary record of theatrical life in Macedonia and the Balkan region, featuring critical reviews, dramatic texts, interviews, and documentation of historic production. This new digitization project seeks to preserve this heritage and make it more accessible to the international Slavic studies community.

04/01/2026

On Friday, April 24, 2026, at 11:00 am CT, we invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion commemorating the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and reflecting on its lasting impact.

Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0vyBJPS_gvSf6sbNAKD64N3beR-wUkbilQz91SCjiBhNPCw/viewform?usp=header