Fall 2026 Central &East European Studies

Location: 1628 UH; Phone: (312) 996-4412.

Last generated: Monday, May 04 2026 08:30 AM CDT

NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing

CEES 550

Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Production in Central and Eastern Europe

4 hours. Taught in English. May be repeated if topics vary and with approval from Director of Graduate Studies.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
50694LCD03:00 PM - 05:30 PMM2072GHMarkowski, MMeet on campus
PoliticsofModern European Self The Politics of the Modern (Central and Eastern) European Self. The seminar will explore a wide, interdisciplinary range of topicsincluding literature, philosophy, economics, and politicsto analyze various figures of the self in the long 19th-century world and their political implications. It will consider significant figures in modern Central and Eastern literature, from Dostoevsky to Witkiewicz, from Gogol to Gombrowicz, from Kafka to Schulz, from Musil to Cioran, to see how Polish, Russian, German, and Romanian literature perform the dialectics of the self and community. Two key dominant perspectives on the self during this periodsovereignty and freedomwill be contrasted with their negative counterpartssubmission and subjectionto examine how the will and its absence shape the relationship between individualism and societal forces, and what the political consequences of intellectual choices are. Besides mapping a broad network of intellectual exchanges across cultures and languages, the seminar aims to develop a framework crucial to understanding the concept of the self today.

CEES 599

Ph.D. Thesis Research

0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated. Students may register in more than one section per term. Students may apply a maximum of 26 credit hours toward the degree. Previously listed as SLAV 599. Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree and consent of the Director of Graduate Studies.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
45072CNFARRANGEDKendall, M
45069CNFARRANGEDMarkowski, M
45071CNFARRANGEDUnderhill, K
45070CNFARRANGEDVaingurt, J