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Katherine Bowers 🌻

@katiabowers.bsky.social
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19C russophone lit studies scholar interested in genre, realism, the novel, gothic, digital humanities, and environmental humanities 👻 book nerd and Data-Sitter 📚 transnational dumpling enthusiast 🥟 katherinebowers.hcommons.org

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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kate (@fyodor76.bsky.social) and I are thinking more about novels without their heroes... check out the #DigitalDostoevsky blog for more our speech network graph thought experiments: digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/10/02/t...
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The Novel without its Hero: More Adventures in Network Analysis
This fall, Kate and I have been doing more detailed network analysis work, building on our Demons forays into this method for our Buenos Aires paper. We have been focusing on analyzing The Idiot, b…
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come listen! This talk is going to be great! All welcome - registration link below.
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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Friendlies, my second book comes out April 2027! Reach out if you are planning your lecture series for the spring/summer! I'd love to come by in person or virtually. Please let your libraries know to get a copy and help me spread the word. 🌈 @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/F/Frag...
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playing around with Dostoevsky networks with @fyodor76.bsky.social ... here we present to you The Brothers Karamazov ... minus the brothers Karamazov 😜
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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026
Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.
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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States
Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...
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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...
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CALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités
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UBC Centre for European Studies @ces.ubc.ca · 22/09/2026
Yumi tells the inspiring story of three law students from the South Pacific who join a movement to bring climate change before the International Court of Justice via the UN. Their goal: to save their home islands from destruction. See link in bio for details and the full list of event sponsors!
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award. This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the costs of attending the 2026 @aseees.bsky.social Convention. The deadline is October 2nd. bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/09/14/2...
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2026 Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award open for submissions
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North Am…
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Chloe Papadopoulos @chloespumpkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Dostoevsky, #Khvoshchinskaya, foreign novels, publishing data, #19c literacy rates, and the story of the Russian novel's rise! And all in one short-ish interview. Had such a nice experience working on this and happy to share it with the community:
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 21/09/2026
Part 2 of the #DataSittersClub back-to-school spree is @alyssavi.bsky.social DSC little tl;dr #5: What's the Deal with Topic Modeling? Topic modeling is one of the first methods people hear about with digital humanities, but really... what's up with it? And how are you supposed to do it? And when?
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What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?
Are Topics Real?
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 21/09/2026
The #DataSittersClub is back... but the news is Terminal 💀. You'll survive, though, with @alyssavi.bsky.social new DSC little tl;dr #4: Navigating the Terminal for the First Time. It's the honest, practical, funny guide to the Mac Terminal that you need before you get down to work with other tools.
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Navigating the Terminal for the First Time
Yikes!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton 💔
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today, Anna Tropnikova sat down with the creators of "The Scoundrel and the Choreographer" - a short film born of studying Russian at @oberlincollege.bsky.social - to discuss their process, the Underground Man, George Balanchine, and reading Dostoevsky today. bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/08/18/a...
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A Chat with the Creators of The Scoundrel and the Choreographer
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. Today, Anna Tropn…
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Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Thick accumulations of Ukrainian consonants conspire against my tongue and my memory: airless crushes of them, like the compressed folds of a concertina.” Lovely piece on learning Ukrainian in wartime by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
The long read: Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected
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Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The latest on my and @katiabowers.bsky.social's #DigitalDostoevsky text encoding project "Computational Dostoevsky" is here in a blogpost written by our postdoc, Braxton Boyer. digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/07/16/j...
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July 2026 Update: Project re-organization, speech re-encoding, and literary musings
The first few months of working full-time on Computational Dostoevsky as a postdoc have been very busy, and we as a team have managed to get quite a lot done. Read on to see what we’ve been up to. …
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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Three postdoctoral positions available on a fantastic-looking project (based in Lyon), looking at the history of the earth sciences in the Caucasus and central Asia, 1880 to 2000: larhra.fr/programmes-e...
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ENVIROSHIFT - Shifting perspectives on environmental change: A History of the Earth Sciences in Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1880-2000 - LARHRA
ERC Strating Grant Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101222577) RECRUITEMENT Applications are now open ENVIROSHIFT ...
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The deadline for our biennial #undergraduate and #graduate essay competitions has been extended! Send us your papers and nominations by July 6!
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The great Hamid Ismailov wrote about the heyday of Uzbek football for @goldengoalmag.bsky.social! goldengoal.world/2026/06/17/u...
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Uzbekistan: Nothing to Sneeze At - Golden Goal
An exiled novelist remembers the heyday of Uzbek football ahead of their World Cup debut against Colombia
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Kate Holland and Katherine Bowers - President and Vice President of the North American Dostoevsky Society - delivering their keynote paper at the XIX IDS Symposium. For more on their computational work, check out digitaldostoevsky.com!
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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +
Glitchy image with 'Cream of the Slop' in the center
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Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A taste of what we'll be presenting in Buenos Aires next week: digitaldostoevsky.com/2026/06/10/d...
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Demonic Networking in Buenos Aires
We’ve got a few updates to share from the last few months. Braxton has been working with Joey Takeda, a developer in the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, on standardizing and systematiz…
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
While I was away, this beautiful, frosty book arrived! Congratulations to editors @profaks.bsky.social, @tricia-starks.bsky.social, and Matt Romaniello ❄️ The book is available here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
The cover of the book A Frozen State: Experiencing Cold in Russian History and CultureThe first page of the table of contents of the volumeThe second page of the table of contents of the volumeThe first page of my chapter, called Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu's A Dream in Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic Approach
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 09/04/2026
The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.
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Forming Your Corpus
You need 'stuff' to do DH
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/04/2026
If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes
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Data Visualization with Textiles
This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles.
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
CANADIANS Please consider signing Elizabeth May's petition to have the federal government recognize endometriosis and adenomyosis as part of the disability law in Canada. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6929 - Petitions
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I am curious, not least because many non-professors with doctorates follow me, to know what your doctorate was in (broad field ok, narrow if you want to share) and what you do for a living now. TT professors, we'll save you for a different thread. Please share for curiosity's sake, not using data.
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is the next talk in our North American Dostoevsky Society virtual speaker series, with gratitude to Oberlin College for hosting! Register below for the Zoom link and join us to hear Michael's work on April 2!
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UBC Centre for European Studies @ces.ubc.ca · 03/03/2026
Drawing upon their individual and collaborative research, Dr. Shneiderman and Dr. Baniya explore how European funding is flowing into Nepal, while young people are flowing out of the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe. Lunch will be served. RSVP on our website!
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Excited for this talk coming up on Monday! All welcome
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Full respect to Pride and Prejudice but we are clearly in a Northanger Abbey historical moment.
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist (I wish!!)
The cover of the book Lessons in Drag
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teiconsortium.bsky.social @teiconsortium.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Good news! The TEI 2026 Call for Papers deadline has been extended to February 27th! tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html Looking forward to seeing your proposal!
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TEI 2026 Call for Papers – TEI2026
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“To link something together is to acknowledge that disparate parts are from the same source, that there is an undeniable connection between them.” How her experience with endometriosis has shaped Ysabelle Cheung’s fiction.
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The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness
At the start of Bora Chung’s short story “The Head,” a strange creature emerges from the toilet bowl. Resembling “a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and gray clay,” it rises from the wate…
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/11/2025
Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com 🤗🤗🤗
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Very excited for this news item! And for Braxton's arrival at UBC! 🎉
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Looking forward to this talk later today!
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
From this, it is super clear who is running the show in Demons pt 3! We are excited to see how these graphs show the changes in Dostoevsky's novel's social structures over time. More adventures in network graphing with @fyodor76.bsky.social #digitaldostoevsky
A network of circles representing characters in Pt 3 of Dostoevsky's novel Demons.
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This talk kicks off our 2026 thematic speaker series on “Infrastructure and Power” - join us tomorrow online to hear Kiran Klaus Patel share his research. All welcome! Registration link below
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North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The North American Dostoevsky Society invites #applications for a special Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award to support travel to the XIX International #Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires. More information can be found on Bloggers K: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/21/c...
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Call for Applications: 2026 Deborah A. Martinsen Symposium Travel Award
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North Am…
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I finally received this Chekhov volume in the mail today! I have a translation in it, among a lot of others, ranging from prominent Chekhov scholars to undergrad students. Excited it's finally out in the world! www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887198095/
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Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories
This volume presents the first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85...
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...
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A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing | A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Usin...
by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This afternoon's task: finishing the proofs for my chapter in this exciting book! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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A Frozen State - University of Toronto Press
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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Next week, on Jan 20, @bgorski.bsky.social is giving a #Sawchen Lecture at UBC on "Networking Cultural Markets: Capitalism and Literature in Post-Soviet Russia." All are welcome! Details and registration for the Zoom at this link: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event... @ubc-cenes.bsky.social
The cover of Bradley Gorski's book "Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market after Socialism"
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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 12/01/2026
Vancouver people: The Vancouver School Board is planning to introduce generative AI into classrooms, here's a petition to ask them not to. actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
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Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board
Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...
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UBC Centre for European Studies @ces.ubc.ca · 08/01/2026
Join us on Zoom January 27th at 10 AM for the first talk in our CES Spring 2026 Speaker Series! The Speaker Series features scholars from around the world who specialize in topics related to Europe and the languages spoken there. Register here: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Does anyone know who the translator is of Dalkey Archive's edition of "The Snake Skin" by Robakidze? It's out of print and I can't find a pdf of the copyright page anywhere.
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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We are happy to share this conference opportunity from our partners at the UIUC's Slavic Reference Service and the American University of Central Asia! Please see the post below for more details on submitting proposals. tinyurl.com/r39jekww
Poster for the Central Asia Research Forum 2026. It features black text with the Conference title, date, theme, contact email, and submission deadline on a white background. A series of screenshots from Central Asian films are inlaid on a black frame resembling a filmstrip. The poster header contains logos for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Slavic Reverence Service (orange, white and navy), the American University of Central Asia (gold and blue), and a QR code for more conference information. The footer contains logos for UIUC's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, International and Area Studies Library, and University Library.
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