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Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
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Recent News
II Honors Outstanding Staff Members at the 2025 Annual Holiday Celebration
Five standout staff members and one exceptionally collaborative team from the International Institute have been spotlighted for their achievements in 2025.
Student-Led Democracy in Serbia: Dr. Gazela Pudar Draško Delivers Fourth Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture
CREES hosted Dr. Pudar Draško, who directs the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, this October.
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
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
29
CREES-sponsored Film in the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Divia
Dmytro Hreshko, director
12:30 PM
Off Campus Location
Mar
30
CCPS Lecture. Poland’s Socialist Globalisation
Max Cegielski, journalist, writer and curator
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
09
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
Apr
13
CCPS Lecture. East of the Atlantic. Black and White (But Not Quite)
Oliwia Bosomtwe, author
5:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
