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.
Peace or Ceasefire? Bosnia Twenty Years after Dayton (November 13, 2015)
2014-15
Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (September-December, 2014) film schedule
2012-13
Agnieszka Holland Film Retrospective and Annual Copernicus Lecture (September-October, 2012)
2011-12
Affections/Afflictions/Afterlives. SOYUZ Symposium (March 23-24, 2012)
Miłosz: Made in America. Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Zell Visiting Writers Series (September 22, 2011)
2010-11
Imperial Nation: Tsarist Russia and the Peoples of Empire. Conference (May 13-15, 2011)
CREES 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion: Alumni in Action (April 1-2, 2011) | related video
Looking Beyond the "Reset": U.S.-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Caucasus. Annual Berj H. Haidostian Lecture by Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution (March 21, 2011) | video
The Longest War: A Front-line View of the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan. WCED lecture by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post correspondent (February 15, 2011)
Afghanistan 2011: Connections, Communities, Crises. A series including lectures, films, a course, and a workshop (Winter 2011)
Auschwitz in the 21st Century. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Piotr Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (October 25, 2010) | audio | video
European Dimension of the Global Crisis. WCED lecture by Marek Belka, President of the National Bank of Poland (October 12, 2010) | audio | video
2009-10
CREES Colloquium: Rosenberg's Russia (April 9, 2010) audio | video
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)
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 26-27, 2009)
Adam Zagajewski Poetry Reading, Zell Visiting Writers Series (December 4, 2008) | video | Zagajewski Short Biography
Affinities/Podobnosti, An Exhibition of Ceramics by Ivica Virdrova and Georgette Zirbes (October 31-December 1, 2008)
Stasys Eidrigevicius Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series and Exhibition (September-October 2008) video
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 & 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 (January 17, 2008) video
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) audio
Shostakovitch Centennial Festival (October 20-22, 2006)
Central Eurasian Studies Society Seventh Annual Conference (September 28-October 1, 2006)