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Events
Sep
10
CCPS Lecture. Polish Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movies
Agata Zborowska, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow; postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; and assistant professor, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
16
WCEE Lecture. Between Voice and Silence: New Russian Political Migrants in Georgia and Serbia
Liudmila Listrovaya, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-26
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
04
Vladimir Kara-Murza | 2025 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
4:30 PM
Auditorium
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Dec
01
CCPS Roundtable. Polish Cinema in the 20th and 21st Centuries: From the Center to the Margins
Elżbieta Durys, Widzinski Senior Fellow, Fall 2025; Magdalena Zdrodowska, Widzinski Senior Fellow, Fall 2025
5:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
