Videos

2022-23 | Archive

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

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