U-M Campus Events 2024-25
Wednesday, April 23, 5:00 PM
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
WCEE Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Civil Society in an Era of Global Change
Monday, April 7, 5:30 PM
Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer, head of the Nobel Prize-awarded Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Chernobyl under the Russian Occupation (2022)
Thursday, April 3, 4:00 PM
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History; director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Organizers: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Russian Beyond Putin
Monday, March 24, 5:30 PM
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician, historian, and former political prisoner, current Vice President of the Free Russia Foundation, Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winner
Organizer: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
Ukraine Resilience and Reflection in Times of War with Oksana Maksymchuk
Thursday, February 27, 5:00 PM
Oksana Maksymchuk, Ukrainian poet. Moderated by Alex Averbuch, assistant professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture; LSA collegiate fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, Slavic Languages and Literatures, U-M
Organizers: Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 PM
Liudmyla Huliaieva, associate professor, Academy of Labor, Social Relations, and Tourism (Ukraine); associate researcher, MIT
Organizers: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies
Thursday, February 13, 4:30 PM
Baktygul Chynybaeva & Holger Roonemaa, Knight-Wallace Fellows 2024-25, U-M, and Joseph Sywenkyj, WCEE Distinguished Fellow and Knight-Wallace Fellow2024-25, U-M in conversation with Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director, Weiser Family Professor in European and Eurasian Studies, and William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, U-M. Welcome and introduction: Lynette Clemetson, Charles R. Eisendrath Director of Wallace House
Organizers: Wallace House Center for Journalists, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
WCEE Film. Flowers of Ukraine (2024)
Monday, February 3, 5:00 PM
Followed by Q&A with film director, Adelina Borets, and film producer, Glib Lukianets
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Film, Television, and Media
WCEE Special Panel. The Future of Ukraine
Tuesday, December 3, 5:00 PM
Speakers: Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's former Minister of Foreign Affairs (2020-24); Assia Ivantcheva, senior director, Europe program, National Endowment for Democracy; Stephen E. Biegun, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; Minna Ålander, research fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Organizers: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director; Ambassador John Herbst, senior director, Eurasia center, Atlantic Council; U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-06); Ambassador Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1997-2000)
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Ford School of Public Policy
Ukrainian Children’s Health and Wellbeing during War: Research to Guide Policy
Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 PM
Tetiana Skrypchenko, Deputy Director, The Rating Group (Ukraine)
Organizers: Institute for Social Research, Center for Global Health Equity, Office of Global Public Health, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Survey Research Center, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
WCEE Lecture. Crimes, Not Tragedies. Reporting the Russian War Against Ukraine
Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 PM
Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and author
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wallace House Center for Journalists
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry. Readings by Marianna Kiyanovska
Wednesday, October 23, 12:00 PM
Marianna Kiyanovska, Ukrainian poet. In conversation with Alex Averbuch, assistant professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture; LSA collegiate fellow, National Center for Institutional Diversity, Slavic Languages and Literatures, U-M Organizers: Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Monday, October 21, 5:30 PM
Joseph Sywenkyj, 2024-25 WCEE Distinguished Fellow and Knight-Wallace Fellow, U-M
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Wallace House Center for Journalists
WCEE Exhibition. Verses from a Nation in Transition. Ukraine in Photographs by Joseph Sywenkyj
October 1 - November 29
International Institute Gallery, Weiser Hall
Organizer: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
WCEE Lecture. Russia’s War on Ukraine: Impasse or Turning Point?
Thursday, September 26, 5:30 PM
Ambassador William B. Taylor, Vice President, Europe and Russia, U.S. Institute of Peace; U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2006 - 2009)
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Ford School of Public Policy
CREES Noon Lecture. Reporting from Ukraine as a Black, Independent War Correspondent
Wednesday, September 11, 12:00 PM
Terrell Jermaine Starr, host and founder of Black Diplomats YouTube
Organizers: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wallace House Center for Journalists
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
September 5 - May 30
Organizers: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, Ukrainian American Archives & Museum
