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2015
December 2015
CREES Noon Lecture. “Feminism in Russia.”
November 2015
22nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival.
CREES Symposium. “Peace or Ceasefire? Bosnia Twenty Years after Dayton.”
Bosnia after Twenty Years: Peace or Ceasefire?
IPC Panel. “Ukraine: Post-Conflict Strategies.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Symbolic Economies of Postsocialist Nationalism in Hungary.”
Wallenberg Lecture. “A Conversation with Masha Gessen: Russian American Journalist, Author, and Activist.”
October 2015
CREES Noon Lecture. “Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Value of Labor, the Science of Commodification, or ‘How Did the Work Unit Get Made?’”
Concert. Slavic Wonders: Feasts and Saints in Early Russia, Poland, and Bohemia.
Concert. Slavic Wonders: Feasts and Saints in Early Russia, Poland, and Bohemia.
September 2015
CREES Noon Lecture. “Supply-Side Socialism: Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic.”
Concert. A Grand Night for Singing
Kaprálová Festival. Chamber Music Recital
Exhibition. Soviet Constructivist Posters of the 1920s: Branding the New Order.
Concert. University Symphony Orchestra
Kaprálová Festival. Piano Recital
Kaprálová Festival. Recital of Childhood Pieces and Other Works
Kaprálová Festival. Opening Fanfare and Lecture
April 2015
Copernicus/Frankel Lecture. “A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland 1949-89.”
Copernicus/Frankel Lecture. “POLIN: The New Museum of the History of Polish Jews.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Foreign Queen and the Ultranationalist Legionaries: Early 20th-Century Appropriations and Manipulations of the Romanian Peasant Dress.”
March 2015
Polish Student Association Lecture. “A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: Reflections on Writing Story and History.”
CPPS Film and Discussion. We Are Here.
Lecture. “Meadyrade: Examples, Arguments, Definitions, Distinctions.”
Symposium. “Art and the State.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Other Stories in Anna Karenina: A Translator’s Perspective.”
Lecture. “U.S.-Russia Relations since the Ukraine Crisis.”
Avant Garde Interest Group Discussion. “Decadent Nationalism/Peripheral Modernism: The Georgian Literary Manifesto”
Eurasia Collective Workshop. “Uneven Modernity and the Eurasian City: The Case of Tbilisi”
February 2015
CREES Noon Lecture. “Globalizing Knowledge with Michigan, Polish, Kosovar, and Ukrainian Accents.”
Film. Seeking Truth in the Balkans.
UMMA Exhibit. Hana Hamplová: Meditations on Paper.
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Political Imagination of Russian Orthodoxy: National Identity and Imperial Heritage.”
UMS Concert. Balladyna. Tomasz Stanko, trumpet.
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Interview with Tomasz Stanko.
January 2015
CREES Noon Lecture. “Women, Vulnerability, and HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.”
UMS Concert. Mariinsky Orchestra.
UMS Concert. Mariinsky Orchestra.
CREES Noon Lecture. “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009.”
2014
December 2014
Film. Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza).
CREES Noon Lecture. “Pluralism from Below: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Catholic Poland.”
Film. The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana).
November 2014
Film. Black Cross (Krzyzacy).
Film. Austeria.
Concert. The Waclaw Zimpel Quartet.
CREES Noon Lecture. “From Gentry Estates to Urban Apartments: Temporality and Domesticity at Russia’s Fin de Siècle.”
Film. The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod Klepsydra).
21st Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival.
Film. Photographer from Riga.
Film. Ashes and Diamonds (Popiól i diament).
October 2014
CREES Noon Lecture. “Ethnic Intermarriage and the ‘Soviet People’ in Central Asia.”
Film. Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolów).
Concert. Grazyna Auguscik.
CREES Lecture: “An Anthropology of Romania's Secret Police” - Katherine Verdery
CREES Lecture. “An Anthropology of Romania’s Secret Police.”
Film. Pharoah (Faraon).
Film. The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie).
CREES Noon Lecture. "Enlightened Memory? On Remembering the Jewish Past in Contemporary Germany and Poland."
Film. The Illumination (Iluminacja).
September 2014
Film. Jump (Salto).
CREES Lecture: "Natural Materials and the Matter of Nation in Hungarian Home Decorating" - Krisztina Fehérváry
CREES Noon Lecture. “Natural Materials and the Matter of Nation in Hungarian Home Decorating.”
Film. A Short Film about Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu).
Film. Night Train (Pociag).
Films. The Last Day of Summer (Ostatni dzien lata) and Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje).
April 2014
CANCELLED--Copernicus Lecture. “A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland 1949-89.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Origins of the Concept of ‘Crimes against Humanity’: Precedents, the Allied 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide, and Legacies.”
March 2014
Lecture. “The Legacy of Jan Karski: The Mission Continues.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Poetry and War: Vilnius Cityscape in Translation”
Film and Conversation. The Death of Captain Pilecki.
CREES Open House
CREES Noon Lecture. “Separated by a Common Language: Soviet Experts and Indian Planning in the Cold War.”
February 2014
CREES Noon Lecture. “Jews and Ukrainians in the Soviet Shtetl: Memories of Small-Town Life.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Weapons of the Watchtower: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Resistance to Soviet Power.”
Copernicus Lecture. “Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium: Reflections on the Uneasy Afterlife of National Literatures.”
January 2014
CREES Noon Lecture. “Gypsycriminality and the Racial Politics of Punishment in Central Europe.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Everyday Law in Russia.”
2013
December 2013
Student Panel. “Eastern Partnership: Prospects for Integration and Democratization after Vilnius.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Ambivalent Consumers and the Limits of Certification: Organic Foods in Postsocialist Bulgaria.”
November 2013
Annual Copernicus Lecture. “‘Making History’: An Intellectual Journey into the Hidden Polish Past.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “‘What Is Becoming of the Uzbeks?’ Islam, Uzbek Identity, and the Search for Meaning in Contemporary Uzbek Independent Religious Media.”
Concert. Shofar: Klezmer Meets Free Jazz
Copernicus/Polish Club Lecture. “Pilsudski and the Polish Revolution of 1918.”
Concert. “Niech Zyje Polska: Long Live Poland!”
Lecture/Demonstration. “The Musical Beauty of Baroque Poland.”
October 2013
CREES Noon Lecture. “Stalin’s Export of Art, Andrew Mellon, and the National Art Gallery in Washington.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Scandal of the Orpheum: Budapest Commercial Entertainment at the Fin de Siècle.”
September 2013
CREES Noon Lecture. “Election Fraud and Preference Falsification in Russia’s 2012 Presidential Election.”
CREES Symposium. "Ann Arbor on the Map of Russian Literature: A Tribute to Carl R. Proffer."
CREES Workshop. "Ardis Publishers and the Russian Literary Canon."
Exhibit. “Ardis: Safe House on Russia’s Literary Underground Railway.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Visions of Society: Discourse on Etiquette, Ethics, and Adyg Identity in the Northwest Caucasus.”
April 2013
CANCELED: CREES Noon Lecture. “Ethnic Intermarriage and the ‘Soviet People’ in Central Asia.”
March 2013
CREES Noon Lecture. “Escaping the Poverty Trap: Economic Convergence between Russian Regions in the 1990s and 2000s.”
Ann Arbor Film Festival: Polish Avant-Garde Animation Films
Ann Arbor Film Festival Juror Presentation: Marcin Gizycki - Polish Animation
CREES Noon Lecture. “Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia.”
Concert. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
CREES Noon Lecture. “Understanding Radical Evil: Communism and Fascism as Open Wounds.”
February 2013
Lecture/Recital
CREES Noon Lecture. “Dangerous Art: From Varvara Stepanova to Pussy Riot.”
January 2013
CANCELED: Workshop. “Jewish Revival in Contemporary Poland: Origins, Evolution and New Directions.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Who Won the London Olympics? Soviet Communism and the Olympic Movement.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Chaplin and the Russian Avant-Garde: The Law of Fortuity in Art.”
2012
December 2012
CREES Noon Lecture. “Claiming Ancestral Homelands: Mongolian Kazakh Migration in Inner Asia.”
November 2012
CREES Noon Lecture. “Collectivization and the Restratification of Everyday Life in Romania, 1949-1962.”
CREES Exhibit. “(Mostly) Anonymous Democracy: Selected Images of Urban Art in Putin’s Russia.”
CREES Lecture. “A Conversation with Irina Prokhorova.”
19th Annual Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
CREES Noon Lecture. “Uzbek Conundrum, or How a Society within a Society Was Built and Then Decimated in Kyrgyzstan, 1990-2010.”
October 2012
Student Funding Workshop. "Seeking External Funding in Eurasian Studies: Sources, Resources, and Application Tips."
CREES Noon Lecture/Rackham Centennial Lecture. “Estimating Unregistered Migration into the Russian Federation: Insights from the United States.”
Concert. Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg
CREES Noon Lecture. “Igor Stravinsky’s Lost Ballet: <i>Le Sacre du Printemps</i>.”
Recital. <i>Le Sacre du Printemps</i>
CREES Lecture. “Trade-in Your Human Rights: A Path to Sovereign Democracy.”
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>In Darkness</i>
Annual Copernicus Lecture. "A Filmmaker’s Approach to Society’s Most Vexing Concerns."
Q&A “Agnieska Holland and Her Place in Film History: A Conversation”
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Copying Beethoven</i>
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Total Eclipse</i>
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Washington Square</i>
Concert. Basiani
CREES Noon Lecture. “Constructing the Enlightened Metropolis: Modernity and Backwardness in Moscow, 1762-1855.”
September 2012
Agnieszka Holland Film <i>Secret Garden</i>
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Europa Europa</i>
CREES Noon Lecture. “The Crisis of the Legal Profession in Contemporary Russia.”
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>A Woman Alone</i>
Lecture. “Russia’s Internal Colonization: Where History and Literature Converge.”
CREES Panel. “The Pussy Riot Affair: The Prank Heard ‘Round the World.”
Agnieszka Holland Film. <i>Fever</i>
April 2012
Area studies graduation and awards ceremony
CREES Noon Lecture. “Beyond the Tower: What Happens When Your Grad School Application Essay Comes True.”
March 2012
Film. <i>The Long Road through Balkan History</i>
Conference. “Affections/Afflictions/Afterlives"
Conference. “Affections/Afflictions/Afterlives"
CREES Noon Lecture. “<i>Cinema Komunisto:</i> Reconstructing Yugoslav Identity on Film.”
Film. <i>Cinema Komunisto</i>
CREES Noon Lecture. “China’s Urban Ecological Shadow? Contextualizing Resource Flows from Russia’s Forests.”
February 2012
CREES Noon Lecture. “Sin and Salvation in the History of Russian Spirituality.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Writing the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1839-1915.”
January 2012
Slavic Department Colloquium. "Literary Representations of Childhood in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia."
Annual Copernicus Lecture. “Wiera Gran: A Singer, A Collaborator? The Other Side of Polanski’s Pianist.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “New Revelations on the Second Conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev.”
Lecture. “The Transition from the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Western Black Sea Area.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Arbitrary Borders? The Logic of Bolshevik Boundary-Making in the South Caucasus, 1921-25.”
2011
November 2011
CREES Alumni Celebration
18th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
CREES Noon Lecture. “The First Free Post-Soviet Generation: Youth in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan.”
Film. <i>Defiance</i>
"Yugoslav Studies"
"Love after Genocide"
CREES Noon Lecture. “On Again, Off Again: Freedom of Speech in Russia.”
October 2011
Lecture. “Beyond Martyrology: Poles and Jews during WWII.”
UMS Concert. State Symphony Capella of Russia.
CREES Noon Lecture. “From Mountain Fairies to Fender Guitars: The Power of Myth in the Music and Times of Goran Bregovic.”
Lecture/Exhibit. “Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman.”
September 2011
CREES Noon Lecture. “Normalizing Russia: The Empire Effect."
Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Zell Visiting Writers Series. Milosz: Made in America
CREES Noon Lecture. “Re-imagining the East: Russian Discourse on Asia in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.”
May 2011
Conference. “Imperial Nation: Tsarist Russia and the Peoples of Empire.”
Conference. “Imperial Nation: Tsarist Russia and the Peoples of Empire.”
Conference. “Imperial Nation: Tsarist Russia and the Peoples of Empire.”
Conference. “Imperial Nation: Tsarist Russia and the Peoples of Empire.”
April 2011
CREES Noon Lecture. “Reflections on Two Decades of Water Cooperation and Conflict in Post-Soviet Central Asia.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Displaying the Word in Russian Culture.”
CREES Lecture. “Potters and Warlords in an Afghan Bazaar: Violence and Political Mobilization in Afghanistan Today.”
Film. Out of the Ashes.
CREES 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion. "Alumni in Action: The Professors and the Professionals."
CREES 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion. "Alumni in Action: The Professors and the Professionals."
March 2011
Teacher Workshop. “Afghanistan Past and Present: Connections, Communities, Crises.”
CREES Lecture. “Solidarity 1980-1981.”
Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture. “Looking Beyond the ‘Reset’: U.S.-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Caucasus.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Muslims for an Atheist Superpower: The Central Asian Muftiate and Pro-Soviet Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, 1970s-1980s.”
Copernicus/A&D Lecture. “A Stranger in a Strange Land: Traveling East to Find the World.”
Panel. “Intervention and the Dilemmas of Security in Afghanistan.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “The End of Jewish Odessa.”
Film. Kabul Transit.
February 2011
Film. Afghan Star.
Lecture. “Poetic Critique of Reason: Lipavsky and Considerations of Temporality in Kharms’s Circle.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “A Portrait of a Soviet Woman as the Citizen Soldier.”
January 2011
CREES Noon Lecture. “Was Socialist Realism Avant-Garde?”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Putin: Masculinity and Hypermasculinity.”
2010
December 2010
Lecture. “Children as Spoils of War: Displaced Children, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Humanitarianism in Twentieth-Century Europe.”
Symposium. “Jewish Modernism in Early 20th-Century Europe: Languages, Trends, Politics.”
Lecture. “The Shakespearean Circle: Lawyers, Literary Criticism, and Professional Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial Russia.”
Lecture. “Beauty Queens and the Jewish Question in Interwar Hungary.”
November 2010
Film. I am Cuba.
17th Annual Polish Film Festival.
CREES Noon Lecture. “Moskvachylyk: Debating Authenticity and Transformation in a Moscow Migrant Community.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Disability, Citizenship, and Kinship in Postsocialist Ukraine.”
October 2010
CREES Noon Panel. “Swords into Plowshares: Peace Corps Service in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.”
Lecture. “Auschwitz in the 21st Century.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia."
Concert. Mariinsky Orchestra.
EIHS Lecture. “Torture and the Moral Risks of Excess in Muscovite Witch Trials.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Thinking about Oral History: Researching and Writing ‘Soviet Baby Boomers’.”
Lecture/Performance. “Apple Train.”
September 2010
Film. Police, Adjective.
Film. California Dreamin’.
Conference. "Polish Studies in the 21st Century."
CREES Noon Lecture. “Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism.”
CREES Noon Lecture. “Modernity Unbound: Tol’iatti as a Soviet City of the Sixties.”
April 2010
Book Launch Reception and Signing, Andrew Herscher and Julia Hell.
Zell Visiting Writers Series Roundtable with Sylva Fischerová
Zell Visiting Writers Series. Poetry reading by Sylva Fischerová.
China Data Center/CCS/CREES Lecture. “Contemporary Chinese Migration to Central Asia: Focus on Kazakhstan.”
CREES Colloquium. “Rosenberg’s Russia.”
CCS/CREES Lecture. “Contemporary Xinjiang: What do we know? What don’t we know?”
March 2010
CREES Brown Bag. “Health of a Nation: Labor Migration and the Uzbek State.”
Polish Film - Rewers
Performance. Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Performance. Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Theater Department Colloquium
Performance. Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
CANCELED - CREES Colloquium. An interview with Lev Dodin, director of the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg.
Performance. Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
CREES Brown Bag. “Public Goods and Property Rights in Late Imperial Russia.”
Performance. Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg performs Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. (Students only)
Russian Language Tea.
Lecture/Demonstration. “Who is Chekhov?”
Catherine Wanner
CREES Brown Bag. “Disassembling Populism (and Putting It Back Together Again).”
February 2010
CREES Brown Bag. “The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence.”
CANCELED CREES Brown Bag. “Is Military Reform in Russia for Real? Yes, but….”
Judaic Studies Lecture. “Bearing Witness: Soviet Jewish Photographers Confront World War II and the Holocaust.”
CREES Brown Bag. “‘Foreign Confessions’ in Foreign Contexts: Religion across the Border of the Russian Empire.”
Films. Dekalog po dekalogu.
CREES Brown Bag. “Nostalgia in Post-Socialist Russia: Exploring Applications to Advertising Strategy.”
January 2010
Films. Dekalog po dekalogu.
Performance. Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok’s Blackbeard’s Castle.
CREES Brown Bag. “Russian Silences: The Venetsianov School of Painting (1820-1850) and the Ecology of Perception.”
Films. Dekalog po dekalogu.
CREES Brown Bag. “Leadership in the Soviet Republics: Nationalism and the Collapse of the USSR.”
CREES Brown Bag. “The Social Life of Shrines in the Contemporary Caucasus.”
2009
December 2009
9s Politics of Writing Lecture. “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.”
LSA Collegiate Chair Inaugural Lecture. “Affective Communities: The Contradictions of National and Soviet Identity in the USSR.”
Zell Visiting Writer Series - Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading
November 2009
CANCELED CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Modern Zagreb: City as Open Work.”
Frankel Center Lecture/Demonstration. “Petersburg vs. Moscow: Two Big Differences in Russian Klezmerland.”
CREES Brown Bag. “Four Angles of Vision on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Germans, ‘Collaborators,’ Jews, and the Soviet Government.”
9s Polish Films. "Dekalog po Dekalogu" and "Teraz ja"
October 2009
9s Annual Copernicus Lecture. “Poland since 1989: A Critical Appraisal.”
CREES Brown Bag. “Grounding Socialism: Architecture, Archeology, and Conflicting Materialities in Bucharest’s Old Court Area (1953-1967).”
9s American-Romanian Festival Concert. ARF Octet.
Conference. “Central European Jewish Culture: Revisions & Revisualizations.”
Keynote Lecture. “Back in the USSR: Ann Arbor’s Ardis Publishing and Russian Literature.”
CREES Brown Bag. “Nationalism, Myth, and Politics: Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.”
CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Socialist Generic: Branding and State Legitimacy in Socialist Hungary.”
Film. A Kingdom Reborn: Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia
CREES Brown Bag Lecture. A conversation in Polish with Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005).
September 2009
CREES Brown Bag. “Mirrors of Russian Imperial History: A Case of Ideological Construction of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century and a Reflection on Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Historical Debates.”
CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Russia: Who’s in Charge?”
CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Subnational Authoritarianism and the Russian Federation.”
Library Exhibit. “Back in the USSR: Ann Arbor’s Ardis Publishing and Russian Literature.”
April 2009
CREES Events resume in Fall 2009
UMS Dance Performance - Compagnie Marie Chouinard
UMS Dance Performance - Compagnie Marie Chouinard
CREES Lecture - "The First Russian Voyage Around the World (1803-1806), as described in German Sources"
March 2009
ASP Lecture - "National Identity Perceptions and Representations in the Republic of Armenia"
Symposium - Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
Film Screening - "Dr. Zhivago"
ASP International Conference - "Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties"
Conference - "Title VI 50th Anniversary Conference"
CREES Lecture - "What is Ukrainian about Ukraine's Pop Culture? The Strange Case of Verka Serduchka"
UMS Concert - The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, cello
UMS Concert - The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, cello
CREES Panel - "Afghanistan--The Once and Future War"
UMS Concert - New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, music director
David W. Belin Annual Lecture of American Jewish Affairs - "We are not One: American Jews, Israel, and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry"
February 2009
CREES Lecture - "The Building of Stalin-Era Nizhnii Novgorod (Gorky): Matter, Metaphor, and Power"
CREES Lecture - "Feeling and Speaking States: The Politics of and in Kazakh Aitus Poetry"
ASP Lecture - "The Changing Face of Armenia: Language, Culture, Religion and Minorities since Independence"
CREES Lecture - "Career Paths and Opportunities for Students Specializing in Area Studies"
January 2009
EIHS Lecture - "Peace and Order in the Cross Hairs: Everyday Life in Soviet and American Nuclear Cities"
CREES Lecture - "What is Post-Soviet about Islam in Central Asia?"
ASP Lecture - "Islam and the Armenians: Paradigms of a Near Eastern Dialectic"
CREES Lecture - "NECRO-UTOPIA: The Politics of Indistinction and the Art of the Non-Soviet"
Annual Haidostian Lecture - "The Geopolitics of the World Today: U.S. Policy at the Periphery of Russia"
CREES Lecture - "Fear and Loathing in Moscow: Covering 11 Time Zones and 15 Republics during Times of Great Change, 1989–1995"
Concert - Armenian Music of Grikor Mirzaian Suni (1876-1939)
2008
December 2008
CES-EUC End-of-Semester Luncheon - The World of the Roma: A Minority One and Many in the New Europe
Roundtable Discussions - The Ethics of Translation
Zell Visiting Writers Series - Adam Zagajewski Poetry Reading
WCED Lecture - With or Without Women's Movements? Democratization, Economic Tranformation, and Women's Equality in Central Asia
Exhibition (through December 5) - Affinities/Podobnosti: Ceramics by Ivica Vidrova and Georgette Zirbes
November 2008
*CANCELED* WCED Lecture - Challenges for Democracy in the European Neighborhood - Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus
Opera - Eugene Onegin
UMS Choral Performance - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
WCED Lecture - Harvesting on the Fields of Ignorance: On the Blessings of Not-Knowing and Not-Understanding in the Post State-Socialist Reforms of Higher Learning
ASP Lecture - Church and Religion since Armenia's Independence
15th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
15th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
CREES Lecture - "Consciously Made Children," "Living for Oneself," or "Giving Birth to a Patriot": Russia's Revival of Family Support and the Discursive Erasure of Gender Inequality
CES-EUC and CREES Student Presentations
Frankel Center Lecture - The Sound and the Fury: Between Brenner and Dostoyevsky
CREES Teachers' Professional Development Workshop - Russia and Its Place in World History
October 2008
Exhibition Opening - Affinities/Podobnosti: Ceramics by Ivica Vidrova and Georgette Zirbes
Science, Technology and Society Colloquium - Spending Less on Fur Coats: Russia's Contradictory Climate Change Debate
CREES Lecture - Coffee House Babble: Smoking and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Bulgaria
UMS Dance Performance - Compagnie Heddy Maalem: The Rite of Spring
WCED Lecture - Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival: Liability or Advantage?
CANCELLED International Policy Center Lecture - Europe, Russia and Energy Security
Slavic Department Lecture - The Woman Writer in the Serbian Cultural Space of Post-Communist Transition
September 2008
Frankel Center Lecture - Soviet Marxism and Yiddish Literature: Between Ideology and Mass Culture
International Law Workshop - ICTY and ICJ in the Conflict and Post-conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: An Appraisal
WCEE/WCED Inaugural Lecture - Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Film - Bouzkachi: Chant of the Steppes
Copernicus Lecture in the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series - Stasys Eidrigevicius
Exhibition - The Earth of Lithuania with the Wind of Warsaw (extended to Nov 7)
CREES Lecture - Looking into the 'Black Holes' of Central Asian History: The Rise of Khoqand and Why it Matters
June 2008
Copernicus Lecture in the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series: Stasys Eidrigevicius
May 2008
ASP International Conference - Georgia: The Making of a National Culture
International Pavilion - Ann Arbor Book Festival
ASP International Conference - Georgia: The Making of a National Culture
ASP International Conference - Georgia: The Making of a National Culture
International Workshop - The Cultural Politics of European Union Energy Security
International Workshop - The Cultural Politics of European Union Energy Security
April 2008
CREES/CES-EUC & Slavic Graduate Presentations & Award Reception
CREES/Slavic Department Film - <i>Savior's Square</i>
Shaman Drum Book Signing Celebrates Valerie Kivelson's "Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture"
CREES/Slavic Department Film - <i>Louder Than Bombs</i>
Frankel Institute Colloquium - The Shtetl in the Museum: Revisiting the Pale of Settlement in Leningrad en route to Birobidzhan
Library Gallery Lecture - Political Caricature and International Complications in Russia and Nineteenth-Century Europe
CREES Lecture - How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in Politics and Business
Library Gallery Lecture - Russian Caricatures of Tsar Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution
Library Gallery Exhibit - Caricature and the 1905 Russian Revolution
March 2008
EIHS Lecture - Feasting at the Pity Party: Violence and Nationalism in Post-Yugoslav Southeastern Europe
Religious Claims and Crossings Series: "Accidental Imperialists?: Muslim Pilgrims and the Extension of Russian Power Abroad"
Performance - Nauryz with Roksonaki
CREES Lecture - Sexual and Labor Trafficking in the Soviet Successor States: How the Former USSR Became a Global Center of Illegal Migration
Lecture and Demonstration - Nauryz with Roksonaki
CMENAS/CREES Film - <i>Sex Slaves</i>
Slavic Department/CREES Round Table - Translation and Polish Literature in the West: A Round Table Discussion in Honor of Bogdana Carpenter
School of Music, Theatre, & Dance Concert - Sadaj, slnko, sadaj
School of Music, Theatre, & Dance Lecture-Recital - Dvorak in Love
CREES Lecture - Learning in a Soft Authoritarian Regime: What the Borat Episode Tells Us about (the Real) Kazakhstan
CREES/Slavic Department Film - <i>Camera Buff</i>
February 2008
ASP Lecture - "Awfully Interesting and Wonderfully Primitive": British Responses to the Armenian Refugee Crisis 1918-1925
Towsley Foundation Lecture Series - The Czech Republic in the Beginning of the 21st Century
CREES Lecture - Aesthetics and Existence: The Case of Bruno Schulz
Sociology Department Lecture - Institution Building after Independence in Kyrgyzstan: International Organizations and Development Agendas
University Dance Company Performance - Stravinsky Revisited
University Dance Company Performance - Stravinsky Revisited
UMS Concert - A Celebration of the Keyboard
University Dance Company Performance - Stravinsky Revisited
January 2008
University Dance Company Performance - Stravinsky Revisited
School of Music, Theatre and Dance Faculty Showcase Concert
Dance Department/CREES Lecture - Stravinsky Revisited: From Le Sacre to Hip-Hop
UMS Dance Performance - Moiseyev Dance Company
Dance Department/CREES Lecture - Stravinsky Revisited: Heaven
Dance Department/CREES Colloquium - Stravinsky Revisited: Innovations and Migrations in 20th-Century Ballet
School of Music, Theatre and Dance Recital - Solomia Soroka, violin, and Arthur Greene, piano
Concert - Armenian Music of Grikor Mirzaian Suni
EUC Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe - Europe: Heir to the Ages or Pregnant Widow
IPC/CREES Lecture - The U.S. and Bulgaria: Parallel Interests and Strategic Challenges
CREES Lecture - The Blurred Borders of State and Islam in Central Asia
School of Music, Theatre, & Dance Concert - Dvorak in Love
School of Music, Theatre, & Dance Concert - Dvorak in Love
2007
December 2007
CES-EUC and CREES End-of-Semester Luncheon: Freedom's Articulation in Europe and Eurasia
CREES Symposium - New Lines of Tolerance and Intolerance in Europe
CREES Lecture - When the Virgin is Your Queen: Reflections on Gender and Nationalism in Poland
November 2007
EIHS Lecture - Breaking Eggs, Making Omelets: Explaining Terror in Lenin and Stalin's Revolutions
CREES and CES-EUC Student Presentations
ASP Lecture - Regional Conflicts in the South Caucasus: The Azerbaijani Perspective
14th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
14th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
EIHS Symposium - Practices and Power in Everyday Life; Aspects of the History of the Twentieth Century
Comparative Politics Workshop - The Three Pigs: Rethinking the Collapse of Authoritarian Regimes after the Cold War
CREES Lecture - A CREES Grad's Career
CREES Central Eurasian Film - <I>Orator</I>
Slavic Fair Celebration
Learning Adventures in Eastern Europe: Panel Discussion
CREES/Bentley Historical Library Lecture - Archives of Holodomor: New Findings, Documentary Publications, and Prospects of Studies
Film Screening - Russian-Poland: New Gaze
UMS Concert - St. Petersburg Philharmonic
October 2007
CREES Lecture - Ksenia's Lament: Women's Voices in the Muscovite Theater and Beyond
UMS Concert - Russian Patriarchate Choir
Slavic Brown Bag Lecture - Russian Patriarchate Choir Artistic Director Anatoly Grindenko
Frankel Center Lecture - "Refined Jews": Yikhes (Origins) and Social Status in the (Post)-Soviet Shtetl
UMS Concert - Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia: Nomads, Mystics and Troubadours
CREES/UMS Lecture-Demonstration - Mystics, Nomads, and Troubadours in Central Asian Music
IPC/CREES Lecture - U.S.-Russia Relations: Present Realities - Future Prospects
Chamber Music Concert that includes works by Bolcom, Enescu, Sheng, Bacewicz, and Kodaly
Frankel Center Lecture - El Lissitzky's Jewish Signature and the Making of Modern Russian Art
Frankel Center Lecture - In the Storm: Sholem Aleichem and the Revolution of 1905
CES-EUC Conversations on Europe - From Revolution to Reintegration: Romania's Return to Europe
CREES Lecture - Islam and the "Great Game" in Central Asia
Chamber Music Concert Featuring Works by Martinu, Kodaly, and Grigoriu
September 2007
A Tradition Continued: A Symposium on Byzantine, Balkan and Church History in Honor of John V.A. Fine, Jr.
AASO Concert - Features Arthur Greene Performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Ford School/CREES Lecture - Alumni Career Conversation
CREES Lecture - Russia at the End of Putin's Presidency: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges
Sociology Colloquium - Markets, Performance, or Structure Earnings Inequality across Time and Space in Russia, 1991-2004
Institute for the Humanities Lecture - The Gold of the Dacians and Two Wars That Built the Forum Traiani in Rome
CREES Central Eurasian Film - <I>Fall of Otrar</I>
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