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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
Feb
10
Folk Democracy in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Mira Markham, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
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
19
Dr. Olga Morozova: Extended-Release Buprenorphine (BUP-XR) for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence in the Context of the War in Ukraine
11:30 AM
G020
Public Health II
Feb
23
Furious Harvests
Ukrainian Poetry and Remembrance / Reading by Alex Averbuch, in conversation with Benjamin Paloff
4:00 PM
Kalamazoo Room
Michigan League
