CREES Events - Fall 2026

CREES Noon Lecture. The Origins of the War in Ukraine: A Question of Chronology.

When: SEP 9 WED 12-1:20 pm
Where: 555 Weiser Hall
Speaker: MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Director of the Kennan Institute

CREES Noon Lecture. When Everyday Life Becomes an Event: Mobility in the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict Zone

When: OCT 7 WED 12-1:20 pm
Where: On Zoom
Speaker: GÖRKEM AYDEMIR-KUNDAKCI, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) postdoctoral fellow in anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović  Lecture. “Reading through the Double Archival Grain: Yugoslav Socialist Humanitarianism and its Whiteness.”

When: NOV 10 TUES 5:30-7 PM
Where: The League - Vandenberg Room (2nd floor)
Speaker: ČARNA BRKOVIĆ, professor of cultural studies and European ethnology, University of Mainz

CREES Noon Lecture. “Rehabilitative Postsocialism, Racialized Capital and Yearning for Crip Horizon.”

When: NOV 18 WED 12-1:20 pm
Where: 555 Weiser Hall
Speaker: KATEŘINA KOLÁŘOVÁ, associate professor of sociology, Charles University, Prague.

CREES Noon Lecture. Who Defines Central Asia? Decolonial Disruptions from Below.

When: DEC 9 WED 12-1:20 pm
Where: 555 Weiser Hall
Speaker: ERICA MARAT, Adjunct Faculty, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University