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Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
Recent News
Alumna Jill Dougherty gives standing-room-only talk at CREES!
CREES Distinguished Lecture – “Putin’s Eternal War” with Jill Dougherty
CREES congratulates associate director Valerie Kivelson on the publication of her new book
Exploring the visual record of the Muscovite tsardom, "Images and the Making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721" demonstrates that, in imperial settings, images actually do things.
CREES is the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan’s International Institute. A long-time recipient of U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants, the center currently awards US/ED-supported Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. CREES and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are affiliated with the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Events
Oct
16
WCEE Lecture. The Long Shadow of Home: New Russian Political Migrants in Georgia and Serbia
Liudmila Listrovaya, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-26
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
16
Health Under Fire: Rebuilding Ukraine's Health & Rehabilitation System Amid War
Global Crossroads Lecture Series
3:00 PM
G020 SPH II
Public Health II
Oct
16
CCPS Master and Newcomer Film Festival. Wojciech Has Retrospective and Debut
Sparrow (2024, dir. Tomasz Gąssowski),
The Noose (1957, dir. Wojciech Has)
6:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Oct
21
CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Student-Led Direct Democracy in Serbia’s Hybrid Regime
Gazela Pudar Draško, Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
5:30 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Oct
22
Multi
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
4:30 PM
Virtual
Oct
23
CCPS Master and Newcomer Film Festival. Wojciech Has Retrospective and Debut
Under the Grey Sky (2024, dir. Mara Tamkowich),
Farewells (1958, dir. Wojciech Has)
6:00 PM
Off Campus Location