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Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
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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
10
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine.
Erase the Nation (2023, 56 min)
Followed by Q&A with film director and war journalist Tomasz Grzywaczewski. Moderator, Joseph Sywenkyj, Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism, LSA, Communication and Media, U-M
5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Feb
17
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine.
Soldiers of Song (2024, 90 min, dir. Ryan Smith)
5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
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
24
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine.
Lina (2024, 30 min, dir. Mykola Nosok & Oleksiy Oliyar)
Panel discussion: Mykola Kuleba, Chief Executive Officer, Charitable Fund "Save Ukraine"; Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27; and Nathaniel A. Raymond, Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health
5:00 PM
Room 1010
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
12
WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Navigating Fragmentation: Great Power Rivalry, Trade, and Technology in the 21st Century
Jon Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1992–1993), China (2009–2011), and Russia (2017–2019)
5:30 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
