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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
10
WCEE Emerging Issues Lecture. Why Greenland Matters Now
Gabriella Gricius, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute, and Fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network
4:00 PM
Forum Hall
Palmer Commons
Mar
14
TedXUofM 2026
Baktygul Chynybaeva, First-year student in the Masters in Regional Studies - Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies specialization, and CREES Alumni Klementina Sula, MA Public Policy 2011
3:00 PM
Power Center for the Performing Arts
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
