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Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
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Recent News
CREES and WCEE support nonresident scholars from Ukraine through Big Ten Academic Alliance initiative
Each center will sponsor one scholar in 2025 through Indiana University program.
Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture delivered by author Aleksandar Hemon
Hemon, giving a talk entitled “Migration and Narration,” discussed his recently published novel "The World and All That It Holds."
CREES is the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan’s International Institute. A long-time recipient of U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants, the center currently awards US/ED-supported Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. CREES and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies comprise the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
Events
Feb
03
WCEE Film.
Flowers of Ukraine (2024, 70 min.)
Followed by Q&A with film director, Adelina Borets, and film producer, Glib Lukianets
5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Feb
18
DSI Lecture Series | Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions
Erin McElroy in Conversation with Matt Bui
3:00 PM
Room 1040 (Multipurpose Room)
LSA Building
Feb
19
CREES Noon Lecture. Ukrainian Women as Forced Migrants: Challenges and Pathways to Economic Independence
Liudmyla Huliaieva, associate professor, Academy of Labor, Social Relations, and Tourism; associate researcher, MIT
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Apr
03
EIHS Lecture: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Chernobyl under the Russian Occupation (2022)
Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Apr
07
WCEE Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Civil Society in an Era of Global Change
Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer, Head of the Nobel Peace Prize-awarded Center for Civil Liberties
5:30 PM
Amphitheatre
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
