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Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
Recent News
WCEE exhibits at ASEEES convention as platinum sponsor
CREES hosted reception for alumni, as well as current students, faculty, and friends of the center.
Alumna Jill Dougherty gives standing-room-only talk at CREES!
CREES Distinguished Lecture – “Putin’s Eternal War” with Jill Dougherty
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
Feb
18
CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Feb
26
CCPS Lecture. The Trauma of Serfdom: The Psychological Legacy of Unfree Labor in Poland
Kacper Pobłocki, social anthropologist, writer, and associate professor at the University of Warsaw
5:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
CREES Noon Lecture. A Global Perspective on Campaigns for Reproductive Rights: Insights from Soviet and Contemporary Russia
Michele Rivkin-Fish, UNC-Chapel Hill
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Mar
30
CCPS Lecture. 79.89.09: Iran and Poland
Slavs and Tatars
5:00 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Apr
01
CREES Noon Lecture. The Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain: Bulgarian Computers and The Society They Tried to Build
Victor Petrov, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Apr
13
CCPS Lecture. East of the Atlantic. Black and White (But Not Quite)
Oliwia Bosomtwe, author
5:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
