Video Archive

Click on the links below to see CREES multimedia content from previous years, or visit the CREES YouTube channel.

2023-24

The Fight of Our Lives. WCEE Distinguished Lecture by Iuliia Mendel, journalist and former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, CREES, Wallace House Center for Journalists. February 19, 2024. video

"Europa": An Empirical Film about an Experimental Continent. CCPS Film and Lecture by Benjamin Paloff, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, U-M. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Center for European Studies, CREES, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. January 29, 2024. video

Ukraine's Political-Economic Landscape and its Place in Europe. WCEE Lecture by Pavlo Kukhta, advisor to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister of Reconstruction. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for European Studies, CREES, Ford School of Public Policy. January 24, 2024. video

Mass Flight from and in Ukraine: A Game Changer in International Refugee and Migration History? Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe by Philipp Ther, professor of central European history, University of Vienna. Sponsors: Center for European Studies, CREES, Modern Greek Program, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. December 4, 2023. video

Alternative Narratives: Social Knowledge of Literature in the Post-Yugoslav Cultural Field. Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture by Maša Kolanović, associate professor of Croatian studies, University of Zagreb. Sponsor: CREES. November 28, 2023. video

European Elections 2023. WCEE Panel with Julián Casanova, professor of contemporary history, University of Zaragoza, and visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna; Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M; Peter Terem, professor of international relations, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica; Annemarie Toebosch, lecturer of Germanic languages and literatures. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for European Studies, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, CREES. October 25, 2023. video

Artists Talk & Reception for Guardian Passage. WCEE Lecture by Irina Bondarenko, artist and researcher, University of Michigan; and Katya Lisova, artist and lecturer, Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, CREES, LSA Theme Semester on Arts and Resistance, U-M Arts Initiative, University of Michigan Museum of Art; presented in association with UMS. October 12, 2023. video

Unearthing and Reckoning with Ukrainian Family History. CREES Noon Lecture by Megan Buskey, writer. Sponsors: CREES, Department of History. October 4, 2023. video

From the ‘Imam of Atheism’ to ‘Orthodox Iran’: Russia and Shi’a Islamist Movements, 1970s-Present. CREES Noon Lecture by Timothy Nunan, professor of Transregional Cultures of Knowledge, Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies, University of Regensburg. Sponsors: CREES, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Department of Middle East Studies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. September 13, 2023. video

2022-23

Ukrainian Scholars at Risk Discuss their Research. WCEE Symposium with Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor of architectural environment design, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor of law and law enforcement, Kherson State University; 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. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. April 17, 2023. video

Media for the "Modern Child": Studying Children and Cinema during the Cold War. CREES Noon Lecture by Alice Lovejoy, associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature, University of Minnesota. Sponsors: CREES; Department of Film, Television, and Media. March 29, 2023. video

Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine. CREES Lecture by Greta Uehling, lecturer of international and comparative studies, U-M. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. March 23, 2023. video

Survivors Saving Survivors. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Jonathan Ornstein, Chief Executive Officer, JCC Krakow, and Chuck Fishman, Photographer. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. March 22, 2023. video

The War in Ukraine, One Year In. WCEE Distinguished Lecture with Lt. Colonel (Retired) Alexander Vindman. Featuring a special performance by members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Ukrainian Club at U-M; Wallace House Center for Journalists; Weiser Diplomacy Center. February 20, 2023. video

Unpacking "Traditional Values" in Russia’s Conservative Turn: Gender, Sexuality, and the Soviet Legacy. CREES Noon Lecture by Valerie Sperling, professor of political science, Clark University. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Political Science. February 22, 2023. video

Other Kinds of Beauty: Aesthetic Valuation and the Making of Cities in Eastern Europe. CCPS Lecture by Anastasiya Halauniova, postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Sociological Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Center for European Studies, CREES, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. February 15, 2023. video

Playing with Words, Talking about War. CREES Noon Lecture by Ainsley Morse, assistant professor of Russian and comparative literature, Dartmouth College. Sponcors: CREES, Department of Comparative Literature. February 8, 2023. video

Making Autocracy Worse: The End of the Myth of Authoritarian Competence in Putin's Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Kathryn Stoner, professor of political science, Stanford University. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Political Science. January 25, 2023. video

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in Russia. WCED Lecture by Elena Milashina, Russian investigative journalist and inaugural WCED Freedoms Under Fire Residency Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; CREES; Wallace House Center for Journalists; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. January 31, 2023. video

From Bad to Worse: U.S.-Russian Relations against the Backdrop of the Ukraine Crisis. CREES Noon Lecture by Denis Volkov, director, Levada Center; Stepan Goncharov, head, applied research department, Levada Center; Dina Smeltz, senior fellow for public opinion and US foreign policy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Sociology. December 7, 2022. video (Please note that the presentation by Dina Smeltz is unfortunately unavailable due to an audio malfunction in the recording. We encourage you to instead browse the report by the three panelists that was published shortly after this event.)

Scholars Seeking Refuge and the Future of Ukrainian Academia. WCEE Panel with Scholars at Risk Fellows: Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor of architecture, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Kharkiv); Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor of national, international law and law enforcement, Kherson State University (Kherson); Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, associate professor of journalism and vice dean of international affairs, Zaporizhzhia National University (Zaporizhzhia); Anna Taranenko, senior lecturer of international relations, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv); and Kseniya Yurtayeva, associate professor of criminal law and criminology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (Kharkiv). Joined by Serhiy Kvit, rector, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and moderated by Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director and Professor of Sociology, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; CREES. November 30, 2022. video

Civic Action Before and After Russia’s War in Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture by Regina Smyth, professor of political science, Indiana University. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Political Science. November 2, 2022. video

The Subversive Pedagogy of Belgrade Surrealism: Aleksandar Vučo and Dušan Matić’s The Fine Feats of the "Five Cockerels" Gang. CREES Noon Lecture by Aleksandar Bošković (PhD Slavic ‘13), lecturer in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. October 12, 2022. video

Returning to the Groove of History. Inaugural Borka Tomljenović Lecture with Robert D. Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, Foreign Policy Research Institute. Sponsor: CREES. October 7, 2022. video

Poland as a Front-Line State: How to Defend Pax Europaea. Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe by Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Polish Ambassador to Russia (2014-16), Director of Strategies 2050, Warsaw. Sponsors: Center for European Studies, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, CREES, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. September 29, 2022. video

Investigative Journalists and the Documentation of War Crimes. WCEE Lecture by Janine di Giovanni, founder and director, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies. Sponsor: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. September 21, 2022. video

Jangar: Nomads, Aesthetics, and Literature. CREES Noon Lecture by Saglar Bougdaeva, adjunct assistant professor of sociology, CUNY-College of Staten Island. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Sociology. September 14, 2022. video

Russia's War on Ukraine and Its Global Impact. WCEE Distinguished Lecture by Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland (1990-95), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1983). Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Democracy & Debate, Weiser Diplomacy Center. September 13, 2022. video

2021-22

Central Asia in World Literature: A Conversation with Hamid Ismailov. CREES Noon Lecture with Hamid Ismailov, journalist and writer. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. April 13, 2022. video

What We Shared: Emotions as Documents of Historical Significance. CREES Noon Lecture with Kamila Kuc, film director. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 23, 2022. video

How to Write History from Below and Why it Matters: A Conversation with Adam Leszczyński about his People’s History of Poland. CCPS Lecture with Adam Leszczyński, journalist, sociologist, and historian. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of History; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. March 16, 2022. video

Foreign Support and Authoritarian Rule. WCED Lecture by Adam Casey, WCED postdoctoral fellow. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. March 22, 2022. video

Building Bridges over Walls: Midwestern Translation Networks and Eastern European Literatures. Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. CREES Conference with Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University; Herb Eagle, U-M; Yakov Klots, Hunter College; Jindřich Toman, U-M; Joanna Trzeciak, Kent State University; Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University; Piotr Westwalewicz, U-M. Organizer: Benjamin Paloff, CREES director. March 18, 2022. video collection

WCEE Teach-In on Ukraine. Moderated by Geneviève Zubrzycki, professor of sociology and WCEE Director, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Department of Political Science; International Institute; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. March 11, 2022. video collection

Art, Museums, and Politics in Poland: A Conversation with Anda Rottenberg. Annual Copernicus Lecture with Anda Rottenberg, art historian, critic, writer, and curator. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Museum Studies Program; Institute for the Humanities. March 7, 2022. video

Refugee Crises in Contemporary Europe, From the English Channel to the Polish-Belarusian Border. WCEE Lecture with John A. Young, Senior Staff Development Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; University Musical Society. February 18, 2022. video

From There to Here: The Yiddish Origins and Cultural Travels of Fiddler on the Roof. WCEE Roundtable with Mikhail Krutikov, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of Slavic languages and literatures, U-M; Anita Norich, Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies, U-M; Karolina Szymaniak, assistant professor of Jewish studies, University of Wrocław and Jewish Historical Institute. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; University Musial Society. February 16, 2022. video

Ukraine-Russia: The Crisis and Stakes. WCEE Roundtable with Volodymyr Dubovyk, associate professor of international relations and director, Center for International Studies, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine); Andrian Prokip, director, Energy Program, Ukrainian Institute for the Future, and senior associate, Kennan Institute; Yuri Zhukov, associate professor of political science, U-M; Jessica Zychowicz, director, Fulbright Ukraine and Institute of International Education, Kyiv Office. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE director and professor of sociology, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. February 4, 2022. video

Cuts: An Oral History of Transformation. CCPS Lecture by Aleksandra Leyk, researcher, Educational Research Institute (IBE), Warsaw; Joanna Wawrzyniak, associate professor of sociology, University of Warsaw. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. February 10, 2022. video

Flashpoint: Kazakhstan. WCED Panel with Pauline Jones, professor of political science and director, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC), U-M; Nurseit Niyazbekov, assistant professor of international relations, KIMEP University; Edward Schatz, professor of political science, University of Toronto; Regina Smyth, professor of political science, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderator: Adam Casey, WCED postdoctoral fellow. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia. January 18, 2022. video

In The Midst Of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms Of 1918-1921 And The Onset Of The Holocaust. WCEE Book Series lecture by Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. December 8, 2021. video

Neo-nationalism and De-democratization in Hungary: Anti-Gender Policies and the Politics of Resentment. CREES Noon Lecture by Margit Feischmidt, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, and Violetta Zentai, Central European University. Moderator: Krisztina Fehervary, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies; Department of Anthropology. December 1, 2021. video

The Image is the Frame: Revolution, Aesthetics, and Gender in 21st Century Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture by Jessica Zychowicz (PhD Slavic '15), director, Fulbright Program in Ukraine and Institute of International Education Kyiv Office. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 10, 2021. video

Is a Polexit on the Horizon? Poland's Domestic Politics, Law, and the EU. WCEE Roundtable with Marcin Menkes, associate professor, Warsaw School of Economics, and visiting professor of law, U-M; Sławomir Sierakowski, political analyst and co-founder, Krytyka Polityczna; Jarosław Szczepański, assistant professor of political science and international relations, University of Warsaw, and Academy of Justice, Institute of Law (Warsaw). Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, professor of sociology and CCPS/WCEE director, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Political Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Law School. November 17, 2021. video

The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine. CCPS lecture by Patrice Dabrowski, associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October 27, 2021. video

Does Culture Matter? Complexity, Creativity, and Social Change in the Kyrgyz Republic. CREES Noon Lecture by Noor O’Neill Borbieva, professor of anthropology, Purdue University Fort Wayne. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Anthropology. October 13, 2021. video

Flashpoint: Afghanistan. WCED Panel with Adam E. Casey, U-M; Dipali Mukhopadhyay, University of Minnesota; Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh; Aqil Shah, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/University of Oklahoma; and Dan Slater, WCED Director. Co-sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for South Asian Studies. October 5, 2021. video

The Insecurity State: Views from Belarus. CREES Noon Lecture with Misha Friedman, photographer. September 29, 2021. video

Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the End of East European Serfdom. WCED lecture by Brendan McElroy, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Co-sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. September 28, 2021. video

Latvia, Europe, and the Road Ahead: A Conversation with the President of Latvia, Egils Levits. WCEE Presentation with Egils Levits, President of Latvia; Daniel Halberstam, U-M; and Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director. September 23, 2021. video

Translating Pan Tadeusz: A Conversation with Bill Johnston. CCPS Lecture with Bill Johnston, Indiana University. Sponsor: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. September 22, 2021. video

Documenting the Prague Spring: A Discussion of Oratorio for Prague. CREES lecture with Ania Aizman and Jindrich Toman, U-M. Co-sponsor: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. September 13, 2021. video

2020-21

Poland and Hungary: Two Autocratic Attempts to Overthrow Liberal Democracy. CREES Noon Lecture by Bálint Magyar, research fellow, Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute. Visit the link for a free, open-access download of The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes by Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. April 14, 2021. video

The Themersons and the Art of Translation. CCPS Lecture by Jasia Reichardt, writer and curator. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies. April 8, 2021. video

Literature in Albania from Communism to the Present. CREES Noon Lecture by Lisandri Kola, Luljeta Lleshanaku, and Primo Shllaku. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Albanian American Student Organization. March 31, 2021. video

Resettlement or Return? Shifting IDP Attitudes in Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture by Cynthia Buckley (PhD Sociology ’91), professor of sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Sociology. March 24, 2021. video

Reviving Democracy, Globally and Locally. WCED Roundtable with Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University; Michael McFaul, Stanford University; and Dan Slater, WCED Director. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 9, 2021. video

Writing about Young Stalin for 30 Years: Why Bother? CREES Noon Lecture by Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of political science, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of History. March 3, 2021. video

Poland’s Place in Europe: Mission Accomplished? CCPS Lecture by Jacek Stawiski, editor-in-chief, TVN24. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 1, 2021. video

Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti. CCPS concert with Mikołaj Trzaska, saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and composer; and Macio Moretti, drummer and bassist. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. February 20, 2021. video

The Social and Political Impact of COVID-19 in Central Asia. CREES Noon Lecture by Pauline Jones, professor of political science, U-M. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Political Science, Global Islamic Studies Center, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum. February 3, 2021. video

Gender Politics and the Populist Moment: Will the East Save the West? CCPS Lecture by Agnieszka Graff, associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Women's and Gender Studies Department. We apologize for technical difficulties including audio disruptions during the first portion of the lecture. February 1, 2021. video

Being Queer in Russia: A Conversation about Challenges Facing Russia’s LGBTQ+ Movement. CREES Noon Lecture with Alla Chikinda, regional representative and communications manager, LGBTQ+ Resource Center, Yekaterinburg; Ezra Erikson, digital director, RUSA LGBT; Anastasiia Fedorova, strategy and partnership manager, "The Calvert Journal," London; and Lyosha Gorshkov, co-president, RUSA LGBT. Moderators: Rachael Merritt and Kyle Arnashus, Russian language and culture students, U-M. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. January 27, 2021. video

Curating Covid: Material and Visual Cultures of the Pandemic. CREES Noon Lecture with Alexandra Arkhipova, senior research fellow, Contemporary Folklore Monitoring Research Group, School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow, Russia; Sara Blair, Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English, U-M; Sarah Gensburger, research professor in social sciences, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); and Alexandra M. Lord, chair of the medicine and science division, National Museum of American History. Moderated by Johannes von Moltke, acting CREES director and professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Film, Television and Media, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies; Humanities Collaboratory; Museum Studies Program. December 2, 2020. video

Someone Else’s Problems: The Dissident Author Post-Dissidence. CREES Noon Lecture by Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. November 18, 2020. video

Interview with Agnieszka Holland. Annual Copernicus Lecture with Agnieszka Holland, film director. Interviewed by Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia acting director, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies acting director, U-M. Sponsor: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. November 6, 2020. video

Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland. CREES Noon Lecture by Mackenzie Pierce, assistant professor of musicology, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. October 28, 2020. video

Assessing the State of Play in Polish Politics: The 2020 Presidential Elections. CCPS Panel with Anna Grzymała-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University; Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages & literatures and comparative literature, U-M; Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October 15, 2020. video

Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood. CREES Lecture by Jessica C. Robbins (PhD Anthropology '13), assistant professor of anthropology, Wayne State University. Part of the Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. October 14, 2020. video

Flashpoint: Belarus. WCED panel with Adam E. Casey, WCED Research Fellow; Sasha de Vogel, doctoral candidate in political science; Natalia Forrat, WCED Visiting Associate and former WCED Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-20), U-M. Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. September 16, 2020. video

2019-20

“The Place of the Artist Is on the Side of the Weak”: A Manifesto for the 21st Century. A conversation between visual and performance artist Gluklya and Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. April 13, 2020. video

Landscapes and Logging in the Russian Far East. CREES Noon Lecture by Kathleen Bergen, associate research scientist or environment and sustainability, U-M, and Joshua Newell, associate professor of environment and sustainability, U-M. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 11, 2020. video

The Environmental Impacts of Mass Housing in Post-Socialist Europe. CREES Noon Lecture by Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor of architecture, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, U-M. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies. February 26, 2020. video

The Russian Media: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. WCEE Distinguished Fellow Lecture by Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy, and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; International Institute. January 27, 2020. video

Lethal Provocations: Anti-Jewish Violence in French Algeria and Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture with Joshua Cole, professor of history, U-M; Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. January 22, 2020. video

Media, Information, and the U.S.-Russia Relationship: A Conversation with Yevgenia Albats and Amb. Susan Elliott. Ford/CREES Panel with Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy, and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M; Ambassador Susan Elliott, president and CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Moderator: Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky, professor of international policy and practice, U-M. Sponsors: International Policy Center; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; International Institute; Weiser Diplomacy Center. January 15, 2020. video

“Stalin’s Master Narrative”: The General Secretary’s Rewriting of Party History in the 1938 Short Course. CREES Noon Lecture by David Brandenberger, professor of history, University of Richmond. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Department of History. December 4, 2019. video

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Politics of History in Today’s Poland. CCPS Lectuure by Dariusz Stola, professor of history, Institute of Political Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. Sponsors: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, Department of History, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia. October 24, 2019. video

Extraction and Equity: Indigenous Communities and Oil Companies in the Russian Arctic. CREES Noon Lecture by Laura Henry, associate professor of government, Bowdoin College. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies. October 16, 2019. video

The Ukrainian Famine: What We Know Now—And Why It Matters. CREES 60th Anniversary Signature Lecture by Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign policy columnist, The Washington Post. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. September 20, 2019. video

Nature, Consumption, and Waste in the Cold War and Beyond. CREES Noon Lecture by Zsuzsa Gille, professor of sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. September 11, 2019. video

2018-19

From Montenegro to the Red Carpet: A Life of Giving. WCEE Lecture by Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian, COO, Fundjavë Ndryshe. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Albanian American Student Organization. April 14, 2019. video

"They Treat Us Like Animals Here": Romani and Egyptian Belonging in Albania. CREES Noon Lecture by Chelsi West Ohueri, postdoctoral fellow for population health, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. Sponsors: CREES, African Studies Center, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Department of Anthropology. March 27, 2019. video

Ukraine Now: What’s at Stake? CREES Roundtable with Oksana Malanchuk, senior social science research associate (retired), U-M; Greta Uehling, lecturer of international and comparative studies, U-M; and Yuri M. Zhukov, assistant professor of political science, U-M. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, CREES director. Sponsor: CREES. March 20, 2019. video

The Truth about Lies in International Relations: Reflections on the Media in Russia and Beyond. CREES Distinguished Lecture by Jill Dougherty (BA Russian ’70), former foreign affairs correspondent, CNN. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia. March 19, 2019. video

The Language Politics of Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema: From Unreflective Confusion to Strategic Multilingualism. CREES Noon Lecture by Vitaly Chernetsky, associate professor of Slavic languages and literature, University of Kansas. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. March 13, 2019. video  

American Diplomacy in a Disordered World. Lecture by William J. Burns, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sponsors: Ford School of Public Policy, CREES. March 18, 2019. video

The Polish Athens: Zakopane as a Center of Polish Culture. CREES Noon Lecture by Maciej Krupa, journalist and mountain guide. Sponsors: CREES, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Adam Mickiewicz Institute. February 6, 2019. video

National Minorities as a Legal Category in the Czech Republic (and Beyond) at the Time of Rising Nationalism. CREES Noon Lecture/Conversations on Europe by Helena Hofmannová, associate professor of constitutional law, Charles University; Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar, U-M. Sponsors: CREES, Center for European Studies, Law School. January 23, 2019. video

Class, Culture, and the "Gastarbeiters": Contested Meanings of Labor Migration in Socialist Yugoslavia. CREES Noon Lecture by Ulf Brunnbauer, chair of southeast and east European history, University of Regensburg. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. December 5, 2018. video

Poland’s Centennial: An Evening of Reflection and Celebration. CPPS Panel & Recital with Matthew Bengtson, assistant professor of music, U-M; Paul Brykczynski (PhD History ‘13), historian; Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages & literatures and comparative literature, U-M. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, CPPS director. Sponsor: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. November 16, 2018. video  

Populism and the Erosion of Democracy. WCED Lecture by Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University. Sponsors: WCED, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. October 19, 2018. video

Contemporary Poland Fighting for Democracy. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Barbara Nowacka, politician and progressive activist; former leader of Poland’s United Left coalition. Sponsors: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 15, 2018. video

Invisible Europe. CREES Noon Lecture by Dubravka Ugrešić, novelist and essayist. Sponsors: CREES, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. October 10, 2018. video

Cooperate or Resist? State-Society Relations and Authoritarianism in Russia and Beyond. WCED Lecture by Natalia Forrat, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, CREES. October 2, 2018. video

Living the End of the Habsburg Empire. CREES Noon Lecture/Conversations on Europe by Maureen Healy, associate professor of history, Lewis & Clark College. Sponsors: CREES, Center for European Studies, Department of History. September 26, 2018. video

Poland, the EU, and Illiberal Democracy. Conversations on Europe lecture by Krzysztof Śmiszek, human rights lawyer, activist, and managing editor of The Anti-Discrimination Law Review; WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Center for European Studies, CREES, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, International Policy Center, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. September 11, 2018. video

2017-18

Recounting Twenty Years of Archaeological Research in Albania and Kosovo: Apollonia, Theth, Shkodra, and Peja. WCEE Lecture by Michael Galaty, professor of anthropology, director and curator at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M; and Sylvia Deskaj, archaeologist. Lecture followed by presentations from students who received the Albanian Community Fellowship from the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Albanian American Student Association; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 18, 2018. video

Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia. WCED Lecture by Masha Gessen, Russian-American author, journalist, and activist; and Misha Friedman, photographer. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Wallenberg Executive Committee. March 9, 2018. video

"The Housing Question" in Eastern Europe Today: Gentrification in Post-Socialist Cities. CREES Noon Lecture by Liviu Chelcea (PhD anthropology ’04), professor of sociology, University of Bucharest. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Anthropology. March 7, 2018. video

Russia 2018: Preparing for the Post-Putin Era. Lecture by John R. Beyrle, American diplomat, former Ambassador to Bulgaria and Russia. Sponsors: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. February 21, 2018. video  

Crackdown in Chechnya: Ramzan Kadyrov’s Brutal Rule and International Human Rights. CREES Noon Lecture with Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director, Human Rights Watch. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Donia Human Rights Center. January 24, 2018. video

Russia’s Complex Relationship with the North Caucasus: Past and Present. CREES/WCED Panel. Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE director. Panelists: Pauline Jones, professor of political science, U-M; Alexander Knysh, professor of Islamic studies, U-M; Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director, Human Rights Watch. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; University Musical Society. January 23, 2018. video

European Regions: Ethnopolitical Mobilization in Upper Silesia. CREES Noon Lecture by Magdalena Dembinska, associate professor of political science, Université de Montréal. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. January 10, 2018. video

Civil Courts and Authoritarian Stability. WCED Lecture by Margaret Hanson, Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. December 5, 2017. video

The Red Web Comes to the United States. CREES Noon Lecture by Andrei Soldatov, investigative journalist. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 8, 2017. video

Between Russia and China: Central Asia’s Relevance. Lecture by David Abramson, senior analyst on Russian foreign policy, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State. Sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October 27, 2017. video

What’s the Problem with Populism? Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe given by Jan-Werner Müller, professor of politics, Princeton University. Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 3, 2017. video

Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism. CREES Noon Lecture by Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. September 20, 2017. video

2016-17

Revolutionary Change and the Prospects for Democracy: Appraising the Impact of Leninist Violence on Postcommunist Regime Outcomes. WCED Lecture by Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science, University of Florida. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. April 18, 2017. video

The Glory and Poverty of the ’68 Generation. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Adam Michnik, historian and editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza. Sponsor: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. April 3, 2017. video

Between Political and Social Constraints: Christian Movements in Contemporary Central Asia. CREES Noon Lecture by Sebastien Peyrouse, research professor of international affairs, George Washington University. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. March 22, 2017. video

From Rebels to Politicians: Explaining the Electoral Performance of Rebel Successor Parties with Evidence from the Balkans. WCED Lecture by Pellumb Kelmendi, Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. February 22, 2017. video

Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations in the Age of Trump. WCED/CREES Panel featuring U-M professors: Pauline Jones (political science), Mikhail Krutikov (Slavic languages & literatures/Judaic studies), Ekaterina Mishina (independent scholar), Jim Morrow (political science), and William Zimmerman (political science). Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. February 21, 2017. video

Jewish Voices in Russia and Ukraine: What Are They Saying? CREES Noon Lecture by Mikhail Krutikov, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and Judaic studies, U-M. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. January 25, 2017. video

Hearing Race and Music in Communist East Germany. Conversations on Europe lecture by Kira Thurman, assistant professor of Germanic languages and literatures and history, U-M. Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures. January 11, 2017. video

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Making of a Global Iconic Event. CREES Noon Lecture by Julia Sonnevend, assistant professor of communication studies, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. November 30, 2016. video

Ukraine: The Next Stage of Transition. WCED Lecture by Natalie Jaresko, Minister of Finance, Ukraine (Dec 2014-Apr 2016). Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 7, 2016. video

Sexual Minorities and Civil Rights in Poland. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Robert Biedroń, LGBT activist and mayor of Słupsk, Poland. Sponsor: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. November 2, 2016. video

Polish Towns? Jewish Towns? Urban Development in Interwar Eastern Poland. CREES Noon Lecture by Kathryn Ciancia, assistant professor of history, University of Wisconsin. Sponsors: CREES, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. September 28, 2016. video

The Past, Present, and Future of Disability Rights in Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture by Sarah D. Phillips, professor of anthropology and director, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University. Sponsor: CREES. September 14, 2016. video

2015-16

Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? WCED Lecture by Karen Dawisha, Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science and director, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. April 7, 2016. video

Urban Hunters: Hustling and Gathering in Postsocialist Ulaanbaatar. CREES Noon Lecture by Morten Axel Pedersen, professor of social anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Department of Anthropology; Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. April 6, 2016. video

Re-Awakening Sleeping Beauty: The Lively Debate over Alexei Ratmansky’s New Production. CREES Noon Lecture by Tim Scholl, professor of Russian and comparative literature, Oberlin College. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; University Musical Society; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 30, 2016. video

The Thing-System of Soviet Productivism: Building the Economy of Storage in the Late USSR. CREES Noon Lecture by Serguei A. Oushakine, associate professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures, Princeton University. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Department of Anthropology. March 16, 2016. video

“Sarajevo, My Dearest City, We Fixed You for the Olympics”: Representations of Sarajevo, 1979-87. CREES Noon Lecture by Zlatko Jovanovic, postdoctoral scholar, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen; visiting scholar, CREES, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. February 24, 2016. video

Of Secrecy and Laughter: Aesthetics, Governance, and the Covert Sphere in Soviet Lithuania (1964-85). CREES Noon Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte, associate professor of anthropology, Miami University. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. February 10, 2016. video

Taking the Place of Stalin: The Story of Late Communism. CREES Noon Lecture by Paulina Bren, adjunct assistant professor in the multidisciplinary programs, Vassar College. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. January 20, 2016 video

Feminism in Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Natalia L. Pushkareva, professor, leading research fellow, and head of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Institute for Research on Women and Gender. December 2, 2015. video

The Russian Economy in 2015. WCED Lecture by Konstantin Sonin, professor of public policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. November 17, 2015. video

The Symbolic Economies of Postsocialist Nationalism in Hungary. CREES Noon Lecture by Virág Molnár, associate professor of sociology, The New School for Social Research. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. November 4, 2015. video

Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia. CREES Noon Lecture by Kelly McMann (PhD political science ’00), associate professor of political science, Case Western Reserve University; research associate, CREES, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Islamic Studies Program; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 28, 2015. video

A New Cold War? Russia’s Confrontation with the West. WCED Lecture by Ambassador Michael A. McFaul, professor of political science; director and senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford University. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October 21, 2015. video

The Value of Labor, the Science of Commodification, or "How Did the Work Unit Get Made?” CREES Noon Lecture by Martha Lampland, associate professor of sociology, University of California, San Diego. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. October 14, 2015. video

Supply-Side Socialism: Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic. CREES Noon Lecture by Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. September 30, 2015. video

Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia. CES/ISP Lecture by Emily Greble, associate professor of history, City College of New York. Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Islamic Studies Program; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. September 21, 2015. video

2014-15

A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland 1949-89. Copernicus/Frankel Lecture by Dariusz Stola, professor of history, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Sponsors: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. April 21, 2015. video

POLIN: The New Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Copernicus/Frankel Lecture by Dariusz Stola, director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; professor of history, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Sponsors: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. April 20, 2015. video

The Foreign Queen and the Ultranationalist Legionaries: Early 20th-Century Appropriations and Manipulations of the Romanian Peasant Dress. CREES Noon Lecture by Corina Kesler (PhD comparative literature ’11), research fellow, Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies. April 1, 2015. video

Trading Hard Hats for Combat Helmets: The Economics of Rebellion in East Ukraine. WCED Lecture by Yuri Zhukov, assistant professor of political science, U-M. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 24, 2015. video

Art and the State. Symposium organized by Irina Aristarkhova, associate professor of art and design, history of art, and women’s studies, U-M; and Tatjana Aleksic, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature, U-M. Presenters: Marina Grzinic, professor, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; Michail Ryklin, senior fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, University of Cologne; Sreten Ugricic, visiting scholar, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, and former director, National Library of Serbia; Jasmina Tumbas, assistant professor of performance studies, SUNY Buffalo. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Avant Garde Interest Group; Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 24, 2015. video

The Other Stories in Anna Karenina: A Translator’s Perspective. CREES Noon Lecture by Rosamund Bartlett, writer, scholar, and translator. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. March 18, 2015. video

Globalizing Knowledge with Michigan, Polish, Kosovar, and Ukrainian Accents. CREES Noon Lecture with Michael D. Kennedy, professor of sociology and international studies, Brown University. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. February 25, 2015. video

The Political Imagination of Russian Orthodoxy: National Identity and Imperial Heritage. CREES Noon Lecture with Jeanne Kormina, professor of anthropology and religious studies, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. February 11, 2015. video

Interview with Tomasz Stańko. Annual Copernicus Lecture with Tomasz Stańko, jazz trumpeter; interviewed by Piotr Michałowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, U-M. Sponsors: U-M’s Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for World Performance Studies, UMS; Adam Mickiewicz Institute. February 4, 2015. video

Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009. CREES Noon Lecture by Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of sociology and women’s studies, U-M. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Armenian Studies Program; Center for European Studies. January 14, 2015. video

Pluralism from Below: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Catholic Poland. CREES Noon Lecture by Agnieszka Pasieka, assistant professor of anthropology, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. December 3, 2014. video

Ukraine after Ukrainian Winter and Russian Spring: The Issue of Regionalism Reconsidered. WCED Lecture by Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor of history, Ukrainian Catholic University and Lviv National University; director, Institute for Historical Research, Lviv National University. Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 25, 2014. video

From Gentry Estates to Urban Apartments: Temporality and Domesticity at Russia’s Fin de Siècle. CREES Noon Lecture by Rebecca Friedman, associate professor of history, Florida International University. Sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 12, 2014. video

Empire Strikes Back: The Dissolution of the USSR and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. WCED Lecture by Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 11, 2014. video

People I Know. Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series lecture by Inta Ruka, photographer. Sponsors: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 6, 2014. video

WCEE Student Presentations. Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Benjamin Pearson, Jean Monnet Fellowship, PhD Communication Studies; Benjamin Newman, Kabcenell New Europe Grant, BA German/History; Mark Kluk, WCEE Summer Research and Internship Grant, MD/MPH Health Management and Policy; Marisa Xheka, WCEE Summer Research and Internship Grant, BA History/Political Science; Polina Fradkin, WCEE Summer Research and Internship Grant, BA International Studies/Russian. Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 5, 2014. video

Between the Ethnos and the "Soviet People": Ethnic Mixing in Kazakhstan. CREES Noon Lecture by Adrienne Edgar, associate professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsor: CREES. October 29, 2014. video

An Anthropology of Romania’s Secret Police. CREES Lecture by Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for European Studies; Department of Anthropology; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 21, 2014. video

Enlightened Memory? On Remembering the Jewish Past in Contemporary Germany and Poland. CREES Noon Lecture by Michael Meng, assistant professor of history, Clemson University. Sponsors: CREES, Center for European Studies, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. October 8, 2014. video

Albania: Emerging Democracy towards the European Union. WCED Lecture by Bujar Nishani, President of Albania. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for European Studies; CREES. September 29, 2014. video

Natural Materials and the Matter of Nation in Hungarian Home Decorating. CREES Noon Lecture by Krisztina Fehérváry, associate professor of anthropology, U-M. Sponsor: CREES. September 24, 2014. video

Punk Prayer. Penny Stamps/WCED Lecture by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, members of Pussy Riot/Zona Prava. Sponsors: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, CREES, Institute for Research on Women and Gender. September 18, 2014. video

2013-14

Mass Violence from the Balkans to Anatolia into the Caucasus, 1912-23. ASP Lecture by Ugur Ümit Üngör, assistant professor of history, Utrecht University. Sponsors: Armenian Studies Program, CREES. April 9, 2014. video

The Power of Weak States in Central Asia. WCED Lecture by Baktybek Beshimov, visiting professor, Northeastern University; and visiting scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, CREES. April 8, 2014. video

Poetry and War: Vilnius Cityscape in Translation. CREES Noon Lecture by Laimonas Briedis, senior research fellow, A. J. Greimas Center for Semiotics and Literary Theory, Vilnius University. Sponsors: CREES, Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. March 26, 2014. video

Crisis in Ukraine: Domestic and International Implications. International Institute Round Table. Moderator: Pauline Jones Luong, political science. Speakers: Zvi Gitelman, political science/Judaic studies; Mikhail Krutikov, Slavic languages and literatures/Judaic studies; Oksana Malanchuk, Institute for Social Research; Ekaterina Mishina, National Research University–Higher School of Economics/political science, U-M; Svitlana Rogovyk, Slavic languages and literatures; Greta Uehling, international and comparative studies. Sponsors: International Institute, Center for European Studies, CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 13, 2014. video

Jews and Ukrainians in the Soviet Shtetl: Memories of Small-Town Life. CREES Noon Lecture by Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, U-M. Sponsor: CREES. February 26, 2014. video

Erosion of Rights in Russia: A Lawyer’s Perspective. WCED Lecture by Pavel Ivlev, chairman, Committee for Russian Economic Freedom. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, CREES. February 18, 2014. video

Weapons of the Watchtower: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Resistance to Soviet Power. CREES Noon Lecture by Emily Baran, assistant professor of history, Middle Tennessee State University. Sponsors: CREES, Eurasia Collective, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. February 12, 2014. video

Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium: Reflections on the Uneasy Afterlife of National Literatures. Copernicus Lecture by Karen Underhill, assistant professor of Polish literature and culture, University of Illinois at Chicago. Sponsors: Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. February 10, 2014. video

Gypsycriminality and the Racial Politics of Punishment in Central Europe. CREES Noon Lecture by Lynne Haney, professor of sociology, New York University. Sponsors: CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. January 29, 2014. video

Everyday Law in Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Kathryn Hendley, William Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Wisconsin. Sponsors: CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. January 15, 2014. video

Drawing Borders, or Creating Conflicts in the Caucasus? ASP Lecture by Arsene Saparov, lecturer in history, U-M. Sponsors: Armenian Studies Program, CREES. January 15, 2014. video

Ambivalent Consumers and the Limits of Certification: Organic Foods in Postsocialist Bulgaria. CREES Noon Lecture by Yuson Jung, assistant professor of anthropology, Wayne State University. Sponsor: CREES. December 4, 2013. video

“Making History”: An Intellectual Journey into the Hidden Polish Past. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Jan Gross, Norman B. Tomlinson ’16 and ’48 Professor of War and Society and professor of history, Princeton University. Sponsors: Copernicus Endowment, Center for European Studies, CREES, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 11, 2013. video

“What Is Becoming of the Uzbeks?” Islam, Uzbek Identity, and the Search for Meaning in Contemporary Uzbek Independent Religious Media. CREES Noon Lecture by Noah Tucker, Central Asia sociocultural analyst and managing editor, Registan.net. Sponsors: CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 6, 2013. video

EU Leverage and National Interests in the Balkans: The Puzzles of Enlargement Ten Years On. WCED Lecture by Milada Vachudova, associate professor of political science, University of North Carolina. Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies, CREES. October 29, 2013. video

WCEE Student Presentations. Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Jean Monnet Fellowship, PhD Comparative Literature; Katherine Man, CES summer grant, BS French/Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience; Alice Sullivan, CRIF, PhD History of Art; Anastasia Tkach, CRIF, BA REES/Political Science. Sponsors: Center for European Studies, CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 9, 2013. video

Stalin’s Export of Art, Andrew Mellon, and the National Art Gallery in Washington. CREES Noon Lecture by Elena Osokina, professor of Russian history, University of South Carolina. Sponsor: CREES. October 23, 2013. video

The Scandal of the Orpheum: Budapest Commercial Entertainment at the Fin de Siècle. CREES Noon Lecture by Mary Gluck, professor of history and comparative literature, Brown University. Sponsors: CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group. October 16, 2013. video

Shades of Orange: A Decade of Ukrainian Democracy. WCED 5th Anniversary Lecture by Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005-10). Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; CREES; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Institute; Rackham Graduate School; Ukrainian Future Credit Union. October 3, 2013. video

Election Fraud and Preference Falsification in Russia’s 2012 Presidential Election. CREES Noon Lecture by Kirill Kalinin, doctoral candidate, political science, U-M. Sponsors: CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. September 25, 2013. video

Ann Arbor in Russian Literature: Revisiting the Carl R. Proffer and Ardis Legacies. CREES Symposium. For more information, see Proffer Tribute. September 20-21, 2013. playlist

2012-13

Escaping the Poverty Trap: Economic Convergence between Russian Regions in the 1990s and 2000s. CREES Noon Lecture with Sergei Guriev, professor of economics; president, Center for Economic and Financial Research; and rector, New Economic School. Sponsored by CREES, Department of Economics, WCED. March 27, 2013. video

Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. CREES Noon Lecture with Patrick Hyder Patterson, associate professor of history, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by CREES. March 20, 2013. video

Understanding Radical Evil: Communism and Fascism as Open Wounds. CREES Noon Lecture with Vladimir Tismaneanu, professor of comparative politics, University of Maryland. Sponsored by CREES, WCED, and CES. March 13, 2013. video

Dangerous Art: From Varvara Stepanova to Pussy Riot. CREES Noon Lecture with Irina Aristarkhova, associate professor of art & design, University of Michigan. Sponsored by CREES. February 6, 2013. video

Who Won the London Olympics? Soviet Communism and the Olympic Movement. CREES Noon Lecture with Robert Edelman, professor of history, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by CREES. January 23, 2013. video

Chaplin and the Russian Avant-Garde: The Law of Fortuity in Art. CREES Noon Lecture by Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Sponsored by CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group. January 16, 2013. video

Claiming Ancestral Homelands: Mongolian Kazakh Migration in Inner Asia. CREES Noon Lecture by Anna Genina, doctoral candidate, anthropology, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. December 5, 2012. audio | video

Collectivization and the Restratification of Everyday Life in Romania, 1949-1962. CREES Noon Lecture by Gail Kligman, professor of sociology and director, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Sponsored by CREES. November 28, 2012. audio | video

A Conversation with Irina Prokhorova: To Understand Russia with the Mind. CREES Lecture by Irina Prokhorova, editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer magazine and publishing house; co-founder, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. Sponsored by CREES, University Library, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 19, 2012. video

Uzbek Conundrum, or How a Society within a Society Was Built and Then Decimated in Kyrgyzstan, 1990-2010. CREES Noon Lecture by Morgan Liu (PhD anthropology ‘02), associate professor of anthropology and Near Eastern languages and cultures, Ohio State University. Sponsor: CREES. November 7, 2012. audio | video

Estimating Unregistered Migration into the Russian Federation: Insights from the United States. CREES Noon Lecture/Rackham Centennial Lecture by Cynthia Buckley (MA REES ‘87, PhD Sociology ‘91), professor of sociology, University of Illinois. Sponsored by CREES, Rackham Graduate College, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 31, 2012. audio | video

How to Undermine Democracy: Politics in Putin’s Russia. WCED lecture by Kathryn Stoner, deputy director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and CREES. October 25, 2012. audio | video

Igor Stravinsky’s Lost Ballet: Le Sacre du Printemps. CREES Noon Lecture by Christian Matijas Mecca, associate professor of dance, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. October 24, 2012. audio | video

Trade-in Your Human Rights: A Path to Sovereign Democracy. CREES lecture by Pavel Khodorkovsky, president, Institute of Modern Russia. Sponsored by CREES, Center for International and Comparative Studies, University Library, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 17, 2012. video

A Filmmaker’s Approach to Society’s Most Vexing Concerns. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Agnieszka Holland, director and screenwriter. Sponsored by U-M’s Copernicus Endowment, CREES, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures; the Michigan Theater, and Polish Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor. October 10, 2012 video

Constructing the Enlightened Metropolis: Modernity and Backwardness in Moscow, 1762-1855. CREES Noon Lecture by Alexander Martin, associate professor of history, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by CREES. October 3, 2012. audio | video

WCEE Student Presentations on Summer Research and Internships. Jess Beck, CES summer grant, PhD Anthropology; Paulina Duda, CRIF, PhD Slavic; Julia Hlavac, Summer FLAS, BS REES/ Environment; William Lamping, CRIF, BA Political Science/Russian. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, CREES, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 2, 2012. audio | video

The Crisis of the Legal Profession in Contemporary Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Ekaterina Mishina, assistant professor of law, Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki; visiting professor of law, U-M. Sponsored by CREES and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. September 19, 2012. audio | video

The Pussy Riot Affair: The Prank Heard ‘Round the World. Moderator: Olga Maiorova, CREES director. Presenters: Elena Gapova, associate professor of sociology, Western Michigan University, and European Humanities University; Holly Hughes, professor of art and design and professor of theatre and drama, U-M, and performance artist; Ekaterina Mishina, assistant professor of law, Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki, and visiting professor of law, U-M. Sponsored by CREES, University Library, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. September 12. 2012. video

2011-12

Jewish Music in the Time of the Holocaust. CES End of Semester Luncheon/CREES Noon Lecture moderated by Timothy Cheek, associate professor of voice, U-M. Presenters: Kathryn Goodson, piano; Caroline Helton, assistant professor of voice, U-M; Allen Schrott, bass-baritone. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, CREES, and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. April 18, 2012. audio | video

World Leaders Respond to the European Crisis: A View from Warsaw and Prague. WCED Symposium with Petr Pithart, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1990-92); and Witold Sobków, Polish Ambassador to the United Nations. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and International Policy Center. April 17, 2012. audio | video

Hungary’s Unconstitutional Constitution. WCED Lecture by Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies, and CREES. This program made possible by a donation from Nicholas Kabcenell (BA Political Science ’85). April 10, 2012. audio | video

Beyond the Tower: What Happens When Your Grad School Application Essay Comes True. CREES Noon Lecture by Edwin Paxson (MA REES ’93, JD Law ’92), principal counsel, International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. Sponsored by CREES and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. April 4, 2012. audio | video

Cinema Komunisto: Reconstructing Yugoslav Identity on Film. CREES Noon Lecture by Mila Turajlić, documentary film director. Sponsored by CREES. March 14, 2012. audio | video

China’s Urban Ecological Shadow? Contextualizing Resource Flows from Russia’s Forests. CREES Noon Lecture by Josh Newell, assistant professor of natural resources and environment, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. March 7, 2012. audio | video

Sin and Salvation in the History of Russian Spirituality. CREES Noon Lecture by Victor Zhivov, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, University of California, Berkeley and Institut russkogo iazyka, Akademiia nauk. Sponsored by CREES. February 22, 2012. audio | video

Polish-Russian Reconciliation: Implications for Europe. WCED Lecture by Adam Daniel Rotfeld, professor of humanities, Warsaw University; and former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Copernicus Endowment, Center for European Studies, CREES, and International Policy Center. February 21, 2012. audio | video

Writing the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1839-1915. CREES Noon Lecture by Alexander Morrison, lecturer in imperial history, University of Liverpool. Sponsored by CREES. February 8, 2012.  video

Wiera Gran: A Singer, A Collaborator? The Other Side of Polanski’s Pianist. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Agata Tuszyńska, writer. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, CREES, and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. January 24, 2012. audio | video

Arbitrary Borders? The Logic of Bolshevik Boundary-Making in the South Caucasus, 1921-25. CREES Noon Lecture by Arsene Saparov, Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. January 11, 2012. audio | video

The First Free Post-Soviet Generation: Youth in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. CREES Noon Lecture by Nadia Diuk, vice president, programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy. Sponsored by CREES and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 9, 2011. audio | video

On Again, Off Again: Freedom of Speech in Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Victor Shenderovich, writer. Sponsored by CREES and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 2, 2011. Due to technical difficulties, the audio and video recordings begin about 20 minutes into the presentation. We apologize for not being able to post the complete lecture. audio | video

From Mountain Fairies to Fender Guitars: The Power of Myth in the Music and Times of Goran Bregović. CREES Noon Lecture by Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, composer, performer, and professor of music technology, New York University. Sponsored by CREES and Center for European Studies. October 12, 2011. audio | video

Normalizing Russia: The Empire Effect. CREES Noon Lecture by Jane Burbank, professor of history and Russian and Slavic studies, New York University. Sponsored by CREES. September 28, 2011. audio | video

Milosz: Made in America. Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Zell Visiting Writers Series with Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Lillian Vallée, Bogdana Carpenter, and Benjamin Paloff. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, Michigan Slavic Publications, Zell Visiting Writers Series, and others. September 22, 2011. more information | video

Re-imagining the East: Russian Discourse on Asia in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. CREES Noon Lecture by Olga Maiorova, CREES director and associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. September 14, 2011. audio | video

2010-11

Potters and Warlords in an Afghan Bazaar: Violence and Political Mobilization in Afghanistan Today. CREES Lecture by Noah Coburn, Central Asian Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow and lecturer in anthropology, U-M; and researcher, United States Institute of Peace. Sponsored by CREES, Department of Anthropology, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. April 5, 2011. audio | video

Displaying the Word in Russian Culture. CREES Noon Lecture by Simon Franklin, professor of Slavonic studies, University of Cambridge. Sponsored by CREES. April 6, 2011. audio | video

The End of Jewish Odessa. CREES Noon Lecture by Charles King, professor of international affairs and government, Georgetown University. Sponsored by CREES and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. March 9, 2011. audio | video

Muslims for an Atheist Superpower: The Central Asian Muftiate and Pro-Soviet Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, 1970s-1980s. CREES Noon Lecture by Eren Murat Tasar, lecturer in history and post-doctoral fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Sponsored by CREES. March 16, 2011. audio | video

Intervention and the Dilemmas of Security in Afghanistan. Panel with Gilles Dorronsoro, visiting scholar, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; LTC Patrick Kelley (MA South Asian Studies ’03), South Asia Foreign Area Officer and Lead Operations Planner for Pakistan, U.S. Central Command; and Amin Tarzi, director, Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University. Moderator: Juan Cole, CSAS director. Sponsored by CREES, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for International & Comparative Studies, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 11, 2011. video

Intimate Violence: Popular Anti-Jewish Riots in Occupied Poland. Conversations on Europe/CREES lecture by Jeff Kopstein, professor of political science and director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and the Department of Political Science. February 17, 2011. audio | video

A Portrait of a Soviet Woman as the Citizen Soldier. CREES Noon Lecture by Anna Krylova, associate professor of history, Duke University. Sponsored by CREES. February 9, 2011. audio | video

Putin: Masculinity and Hypermasculinity. CREES Noon Lecture by Elizabeth Wood (PhD History ’91), professor of history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sponsored by CREES. January 19, 2011. audio | video

Moskvachylyk: Debating Authenticity and Transformation in a Moscow Migrant Community. CREES Noon Lecture by Madeleine Reeves, fellow, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. November 17, 2010. audio

Disability, Citizenship, and Kinship in Postsocialist Ukraine. CREES Noon Lecture by Sarah Phillips, associate professor of anthropology, Indiana University. Sponsored by CREES and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 10, 2010. audio | video

Swords into Plowshares: Peace Corps Service in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. CREES Noon Panel with Rutherford Hubbard, REES MA/JD student, U-M, and RPCV (Armenia 2006-08); Mahima Mahadevan, MPP student, U-M, and RPCV (Kyrgyz Republic 2004-06); William Nash, immigration specialist, International Center, U-M, and RPCV (Ukraine 2001-03); and Maria Smith, REES MA/MPP student, U-M, and RPCV (Azerbaijan 2006-08). Part of U-M’s 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps series and LSA Theme Semester. Sponsored by CREES and the International Policy Center. October 27, 2010. audio | video

Auschwitz in the 21st Century. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Piotr Cywiński, director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, CREES, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Museum Studies Program, and Polish Mission of the Orchard Lake Schools. October 25, 2010. audio | video

Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia. CREES Noon Lecture by Henry Hale, associate professor of political science and international affairs; director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies; and director, European and Eurasian Studies Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Sponsored by CREES, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 20, 2010. audio | video

European Dimension of the Global Crisis. WCED lecture by Marek Belka, president, National Bank of Poland; and former director, European Department, International Monetary Fund. Sponsored by WCED, Gerald R. Ford School for Public Policy, and International Policy Center. October 12, 2010. audio | video

Thinking about Oral History: Researching and Writing “Soviet Baby Boomers”. CREES Noon Lecture by Donald Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor and professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sponsored by CREES. October 6, 2010. audio | video

Modernity Unbound: Tol’iatti as a Soviet City of the Sixties. CREES Noon Lecture by Lewis Siegelbaum, professor of Russian history, Michigan State University. Sponsored by CREES. September 8, 2010. audio | video

2009-10

Materialities of State Socialism and Postsocialism. Conversations on Europe lecture by Zsuzsa Gille, assistant professor of sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center and CREES. April 15, 2010. audio | video

Rosenberg’s Russia. CREES Colloquium featuring U-M history alumnae Anne Gorsuch, Heather Hogan, Diane Koenker, and Anna Kuxhausen along with Francis Blouin, professor of history and information and director, Bentley Historical Library, U-M, presenting lectures in tribute to William G. Rosenberg, U-M professor of history. Sponsored by CREES and the Department of History. April 9, 2010. audio | video

Health of a Nation: Labor Migration and the Uzbek State. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Russell Zanca, associate professor of anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University. Sponsored by CREES and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. March 31, 2010. audio | video

Public Goods and Property Rights in Late Imperial Russia. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Ekaterina Pravilova, assistant professor of history, Princeton University. Sponsored by CREES. March 24, 2010. audio | video

After Lisbon: A New Era for Europe and EU-US Relations. Conversations on Europe lecture by Angelos Pangratis, Chargé d’Affaires and Acting Head, European Union Delegation to the United States. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. March 18, 2010. audio | video

Role of Elections and Limits of Election Monitoring in Emerging Democracies. CREES/WCED Brown Bag lecture by Michael Ochs, Policy Advisor, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) of the U.S. Congress. Sponsored by CREES, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, and Armenian Studies Program. audio

Disassembling Populism (and Putting It Back Together Again). CREES Brown Bag lecture by Kevin Deegan-Krause, associate professor of comparative politics, Wayne State University; and CREES research associate. Sponsored by CREES. March 10, 2010. audio | video

“Foreign Confessions” in Foreign Contexts: Religion across the Border of the Russian Empire. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Paul Werth, associate professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Sponsored by CREES. February 10, 2010. audio | video

Nostalgia in Post-Socialist Russia: Exploring Applications to Advertising Strategy. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Susan Holak, professor of business, College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Sponsored by CREES. February 3, 2010. audio | video

Russian Silences: The Venetsianov School of Painting (1820-1850) and the Ecology of Perception. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Thomas Newlin, associate professor of Russian language and literature, Oberlin College. Sponsored by CREES. January 27, 2010. audio | video

Leadership in the Soviet Republics: Nationalism and the Collapse of the USSR. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Jeremy R. Smith, visiting associate professor of history, U-M; and senior lecturer in Russian history and director of doctoral research, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, UK. Sponsored by CREES and the Department of History. January 20, 2010. audio

The Social Life of Shrines in the Contemporary Caucasus. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Bruce Grant, associate professor of anthropology, New York University. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. January 13, 2010. audio | video

U.S.-Russia Relations: Status of the “Reset”. WCED/CREES/Ford School lecture by John Beyrle, U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Sponsored by the International Policy Center, CREES, Ford School of Public Policy, WCED. January 12, 2010. video

Plus ça change? The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and its Aftermath. Conversations on Europe/CREES lecture by Grigore Pop-Eleches, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. December 10, 2009. audio | video

How to Make a Revolution: A Guide to Romania’s Fin-de-Siècle Media Spectacle as Performed by a Dying Regime, a Willing Populace, and the International Press Corps. Politics of Writing lecture by Andrei Codrescu, poet, essayist, and novelist. Sponsored by CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Department of English, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, International Institute, and MFA in Creative Writing Program. December 9, 2009. video

Kosovo from NATO’s Intervention to Independence: An Appraisal. Conversations on Europe/CREES lecture by Veton Surroi, journalist and politician. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 5, 2009. audio

Four Angles of Vision on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Germans, ‘Collaborators,’ Jews, and the Soviet Government. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Zvi Gitelman, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of political science, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. November 4, 2009. audio

Purity and Danger in Romania’s ‘Transitional Justice’: Purging Enemies through the Securitate Files. WCED lecture by Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and CREES. October 22, 2009. audio | video

Nationalism, Myth, and Politics: Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. CREES lecture by Veljko Vujačić, William G. and Jeanette Williams Smith Associate Professor of Sociology, Oberlin College. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. October 21, 2009. audio

Socialist Generic: Branding and State Legitimacy in Socialist Hungary. CREES lecture by Krisztina Fehérváry, assistant professor of anthropology, U-M. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. October 14, 2009. audio

Where are Europe's Borders? Conversations on Europe/WCED lecture by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005). Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and CREES. October 8, 2009. audio | video

A conversation in Polish with Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005). CREES lecture and discussion. Sponsored by CREES, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 7, 2009. audio

Mirrors of Russian Imperial History: A Case of Ideological Construction of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century and a Reflection on Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Historical Debates. CREES lecture by Alexander Semyonov, visiting associate professor of history, U-M; and associate professor of history and political science, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. Sponsored by CREES and the Department of History. September 23, 2009. audio

Russia: Who’s in Charge? CREES lecture by Paul J. Saunders (MA REES/Political Science ’92, BA Political Science ’90), executive director, The Nixon Center. Sponsored by CREES. September 16, 2009. audio

Subnational Authoritarianism and the Russian Federation. CREES lecture by Vladimir Gel’man, chair of political science and sociology, European University at St. Petersburg. Sponsored by CREES. September 9, 2009. audio

2008-09

The First Russian Voyage Around the World (1803-1806), as described in German Sources. CREES Lecture by Victoria Moessner, professor of German, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Sponsored by CREES. April 15, 2009. audio

The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization in Postcommunist Space. WCED Colloquium by M. Steven Fish, professor, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and CREES. April 2, 2009. audio

Europe’s Political and Economic Challenges. Conversations on Europe Lecture by Jan Svejnar, director, International Policy Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center; CREES; International Policy Center, Ford School of Public Policy; and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 25, 2009. audio

What is Ukrainian about Ukraine's Pop Culture? The Strange Case of Verka Serduchka. CREES Lecture by Serhy Yekelchyk, associate professor and chair, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria. Sponsored by CREES. March 18, 2009. audio

Afghanistan--The Once and Future War. CREES Panel with David B. Edwards, W. Van Alan Clark '41 Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College; Alessandro Monsutti, 2008-09 postdoctoral fellow, Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, and social anthropologist, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; and M. Nazif Shahrani, Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, professor of anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Sponsored by CREES, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 12, 2009. video

The Building of Stalin-Era Nizhnii Novgorod (Gorky): Matter, Metaphor, and Power. CREES Lecture by Heather DeHaan, assistant professor, Department of History, Binghamton University, and 2009 Kennan Institute Fellow. Sponsored by CREES. February 18, 2009. audio

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe. Conversations on Europe Lecture by Nina Bandelj, assistant professor, University of California, Irvine. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. February 5, 2009. audio

Career Paths and Opportunities for Students Specializing in Area Studies. CREES Lecture by Martha Loerke (MA REES '90), director, Scholarship Programs, Open Society Institute. Sponsored by CREES. February 4, 2009. audio

What is Post-Soviet about Islam in Central Asia? CREES Lecture by John Schoeberlein, lecturer on Central Asia, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. January 21, 2009. audio

NECRO-UTOPIA: The Politics of the Indistinction and the Art of the Non-Soviet. CREES Lecture by Alexei Yurchak, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by CREES. January 21, 2009. audio [Please note: Due to technical difficulties, this recording of Professor Yurchak's lecture includes extraneous noises. We are nonetheless posting it for those who could not attend.]

Fear and Loathing in Moscow: Covering 11 Time Zones and 15 Republics during Times of Great Change, 1989-1995. CREES Lecture by Stephanie DeGroote (BA REES '85), producer, Sky News, London, and 2008–09 Knight-Wallace Fellow, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. January 14, 2009. audio

With or Without Women's Movements? Democratization, Economic Transformation, and Women's Equality in Central Asia. WCED Lecture by Marianne Kamp, associate professor, Department of History, University of Wyoming. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, CREES, and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. December 3, 2008. audio

"Consciously Made Children," "Living for Oneself," or "Giving Birth to a Patriot": Russia's Revival of Family Support and the Discursive Erasure of Gender Inequality. CREES Lecture by Michele Rivkin-Fish, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sponsored by CREES. November 6, 2008. audio

Coffee House Babble: Smoking and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Bulgaria. CREES Lecture by Mary Neuburger, associate professor, Department of History, University of Texas-Austin. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. October 23, 2008. audio

Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival: Liability or Advantage? WCED lecture by Michael Bernhard, professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and CREES. October 8, 2008. audio

Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. WCEE/WCED inaugural lecture by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005; and Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership, Georgetown University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for European Studies-European Union Center; CREES; and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. September 19, 2008. video

Looking into the "Black Holes" of Central Asian History: The Rise of Khoqand and Why it Matters. Lecture by Scott Levi, associate professor, Department of History, Ohio State University. Sponsored by CREES and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. September 4, 2008. audio

2007-08

How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in Politics and Business. Lecture by Alena Ledeneva, lecturer, Social Sciences Department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Sponsored by CREES. April 2, 2008. audio

Sexual and Labor Trafficking in the Soviet Successor States: How the Former USSR Became a Global Center of Illegal Migration. Lecture by Louise Shelley, professor, George Mason School of Public Policy, George Mason University. Sponsored by CREES, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for International and Comparative Law, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Ford School of Public Policy. March 19, 2008. audio

Learning in a Soft Authoritarian Regime: What the Borat Episode Tells Us about (the Real) Kazakhstan. Lecture by Edward Schatz, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. March 5, 2008. audio

Europe: Heir to the Ages or Pregnant Widow. EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe by Neal Ascherson, distinguished journalist and author. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Copernicus Endowment; Department of History; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; and International Institute. January 17, 2008. video

The Blurred Borders of State and Islam in Central Asia. Lecture by Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. January 9, 2008. audio

Freedom's Articulation in Europe and Eurasia. End of Semester Luncheon with U-M faculty: Michael D. Kennedy, CES-EUC/CREES; Dario Gaggio, History; Anna Grzymala-Busse, Political Science; and Gerard Libaridian, Armenian Studies Program. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. December 12, 2007. audio

New Lines of Tolerance and Intolerance in Europe. Symposium with Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw; Joshua Cole, History, U-M; and Hadley Renkin, Albion College. Moderator: Brian Porter-Szucs, U-M. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, CREES, and Center for European Studies-European Union Center. December 6, 2007. audio

When the Virgin is Your Queen: Reflections of Gender and Nationalism in Poland. Lecture by Agnieszka Graff, assistant professor, Center for American Studies, University of Warsaw. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Institute for Research on Women and Gender. December 5, 2007. audio

Mystics, Nomads and Troubadours in Central Asian Music. Lecture-demonstration featuring Ted Levin, Parents Distinguished Research Professor, Dartmouth College, and performers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Qaraqalpakstan, and Tajikistan. Sponsored by CREES, University Musical Society, and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. October 24, 2007. audio

U.S.-Russia Relations: Present Realities - Future Prospects. Lecture by Ambassador James F. Collins, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001; senior associate and director, Russian and Eurasian Program; and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy and CREES. October 17, 2007. audio

From Revolution to Reintegration: Romania's Return to Europe. Conversations on Europe Lecture by Gheorghe Ciuhandu, Mayor of Timisoara, Romania. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center and CREES. October 11, 2007. audio

Russia at the End of Putin's Presidency: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges. Lecture by Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington) and Moscow Carnegie Center. Sponsored by CREES and the Ford School of Public Policy. September 26, 2007. audio

2006-07

The Transformation of Europe. Seminar with University of Michigan faculty and students featuring Aleksander Kwaśniewski, president of Poland, 1995-2005. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Office of the President. October 25, 2006. audio

Polish Student and Faculty Seminar with Aleksander Kwaśniewski, president of Poland, 1995-2005. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and Office of the President. October 24, 2006. audio

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