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Special Events

Welcome to the CREES Special Events page. Below are links to information about particularly notable events at CREES beginning with the 2006-07 academic year.

2009-10

Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (March 24-27, 2010)

Focus: Russia, A Series of Lectures and Performances (Winter 2010)

U.S.-Russia Relations: Status of the ‘Reset’. CREES/WCED/Ford School lecture by John Beyrle, U.S. Ambassador to Russia (January 12, 2010)

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. Lecture by Andrei Codrescu, poet, essayist, and novelist (December 9, 2009)

The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009. Series of Lectures, Performances, and Conference (Fall 2009)

Focus: Romania, A Series of Lectures and Performances (Fall 2009)

Poland Since 1989: A Critical Appraisal, Annual Copernicus Lecture (October 29, 2009)

2008-09

University of Michigan Library presents a Symposium on Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago and Film Screening (March 26 and 27, 2009)

Adam Zagajewski Poetry Reading, Zell Visiting Writers Series (December 4, 2008); Zagajewski Short Biography

Affinities/Podobnosti, An Exhibition of Ceramics by Ivica Virdrova and Georgette Zirbes (October 31-December 5, 2008)

Stasys Eidrigevicius Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series and Exhibition (September-October 2008)

2007-08

Alena Ledeneva Lecture on "How Russia Works: Informal Practices in Politics and Society (April 2, 2008)

Nauryz with Roksonaki: Lecture/Demonstration and Performance (March 18 and 20, 2008)

Translation and Polish Literature in the West: A Round Table Discussion in Honor of Bogdana Carpenter (March 15, 2008)

Focus on Russian - A Series of Lectures and Performances (Winter 2008)

Europe: Heir to the Ages or Pregnant Widow - EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe and Copernicus Lecture by Neal Ascherson

New Europe / Old Problems - A Symposium and Lecture Series Featuring Agnieszka Graff and Neal Ascherson (December 2007-January 2008)

Focus on Central Eurasia - A Series of Lectures, Films, and Performances (Fall 2007)

Focus on Russia - A Series of Lectures and Performances (Fall 2007)

U.S.-Russia Relations: Present Realities - Future Prospects. Ford School/CREES Lecture by Ambassador James F. Collins (October 17, 2007) (audio)

From Revolution to Reintegration: Romania's Return to Europe. Conversations on Europe Lecture by Gheorghe Ciuhandu, Mayor of Timisoara, Romania (October 11, 2007) (audio)

Tribute and Symposium Honoring John V.A. Fine, Jr. (September 28-29, 2007)

2006-07

Annual Copernicus Lecture - Krzysztof Czyzewski: "The Line of Return: Practicing Borderland in Dialogue with Czeslaw Milosz" (March 30, 2007)

The University of Michigan Chopin Project - Performances of Chopin's Complete Solo Piano Works by the Piano Studio of Arthur Greene and Symposium (Winter 2007); Chopin Project Website

Revisiting Yugoslavia's Dissolution - A Series of Lectures, Films, and Courses (Winter 2007)

"Democratic Revolutions, International Conflict, and Global Citizenship," lecture by Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005 (October 25, 2006)

Shostakovitch Centennial Festival (October 20-22, 2006)

Central Eurasian Studies Society Seventh Annual Conference (September 28-October 1, 2006)