Videos

University of Michigan Special Panel "The Future of Ukraine"
December 3, 2024

Organized by the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia. Co-sponsored by The Atlantic Council and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, U-M. International experts will discuss key challenges Ukraine will face after the war and provide recommendations to the incoming U.S. administration. Speakers: Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2020-24); Assia Ivantcheva, senior director, Europe program, National Endowment for Democracy; Stephen E. Biegun, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; Minna Ålander, research fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs Organizers: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director, Weiser Family Professor in European and Eurasian Studies, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, U-M Ambassador John E. Herbst, senior director, Eurasia center, Atlantic Council; U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-06) Ambassador Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1997-2000)  

WCEE Roundtable
Europe's Polarized Political Landscape: Discussion on European Elections
November 11, 2024

Speakers: Joshua Cole, History, U-M; Scott Greer, Public Health and Political Science, U-M; Giulia Riccò, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, Weiser Family Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M.

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, International Institute, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Romance Languages & Literatures RLL, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Germanic Languages & Literatures.

WCEE Lecture
Crimes, Not Tragedies. Reporting the Russian War Against Ukraine
October 29, 2024

Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and author

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wallace House Center for Journalists.

WCEE Lecture
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Impasse or Turning Point?
September 26, 2024

Ambassador William B. Taylor, Vice President, Europe and Russia, U.S. Institute of Peace; U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2006 - 2009)

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Annual Copernicus Lecture
Poland, New Hope for Europe? A Conversation with Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw
September 19, 2024

Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw

Sponsored by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, International Institute, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

CREES Noon Lecture
Reporting From Ukraine as a Black, Independent War Correspondent
September 11, 2024

Terrell Jermaine Starr, host and founder of Black Diplomats YouTube

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Wallace House Center for Journalists.

WCEE Distinguished Lecture
The Fight of Our Lives
February 19, 2024

Iuliia Mendel, journalist, former Press Secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and 2023-24 WCEE Distinguished Fellow and Knight-Wallace Fellow.

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Wallace House Center for Journalists.

WCEE Lecture
Ukraine's Political-Economic Landscape and its Place in Europe
January 24, 2024

Pavlo Kukhta, advisor to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister of Reconstruction and former Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture.

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

WCEE Panel
European Elections 2023
October 25, 2023

Julián Casanova, professor of contemporary history, University of Zaragoza, and visiting professor, Central European University

Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M

Peter Terem, professor of international relations, Matej Bel University

Annemarie Toebosch, lecturer of Germanic languages and literatures, U-M

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Copernicus Center for Polish Studies.

WCEE Lecture
Artists Talk for Guardian Passage
October 12, 2023

Irina Bondarenko, artist and researcher, University of Michigan

Katya Lisova, artist and lecturer, Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; LSA Theme Semester on Arts and Resistance; U-M Arts Initiative; and University of Michigan Museum of Art. Presented in association with UMS.

WCEE Lecture
Closer to Michigan or Madrid? Reflections on Ireland’s Unique Geopolitical Position
September 6, 2023

Rossa Fanning, Attorney General of Ireland

Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for European Studies, and Law School.

WCEE Symposium
Ukrainian Scholars at Risk Discuss their Research
April 17, 2023

Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor of architectural environment design, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
"Foreign Technologies in the Construction of Industrial Plants in Eastern Ukraine during Early Industrialization (1928-1938): American Companies, Projects, Engineers"

Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor of law and law enforcement, Kherson State University
"Holocaust Studies in Ukraine: Impact and Challenges in the Context of Russian Aggression"

Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, associate professor of journalism, Zaporizhzhia National University
Anna Taranenko, senior lecturer in international relations, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Kseniya Yurtayeva, associate professor of criminal law and criminology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
"Сyber Threats and the Russia-Ukraine War: Telegram-based Resistance among Ukrainian Government-led Volunteer Forces"

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director

WCEE Distinguished Lecture
The War in Ukraine, One Year In
February 20, 2023

A Conversation with Lt. Colonel (Retired) Alexander Vindman, moderated by Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and John Ciorciari, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center.

Featuring a special performance by members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America. Songs include:
Cherez Pole Shyroke (Through the Wide Field)
Excerpts from Duma pro Vdovu i Triokh Syniv (Duma about the Widow and Her Three Sons)
Zaporizhskyi Marsh (Zaporizhian March)
Homin Stepiv (Echo of the Steppes)
Brattia Ukraintsi (Ukrainian Brothers)

Organized by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia in partnership with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Ukrainian Club at U-M; Wallace House Center for Journalists; and Weiser Diplomacy Center.

WCEE Panel
Scholars Seeking Refuge and the Future of Ukrainian Academia
November 30, 2022

Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor, Department of Architectural Environment Design, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor, Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement, Kherson State University; Serhiy Kvit, Rector (President), National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, associate professor of Journalism Department, Vice Dean in International Affairs, Zaporizhzhia National University; Anna Taranenko, senior lecturer International Relations Department, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Kseniya Yurtayeva, associate professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director.

WCEE Distinguished Lecture
Russia's War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact
September 13, 2022

Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland (1990-95), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1983).

Organized by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia in partnership with the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Weiser Diplomacy Center, and Democracy & Debate.

WCEE Lecture
Investigative Journalists and the Documentation of War Crimes
September 21, 2022

Janine di Giovanni, founder and director, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies.