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M. Steven Fish - The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization
Craig Calhoun and Lorne Craner: Promoting Democracy from the Ground Up
Amb. Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. and Amb. Ronald Weiser - WCED Colloqiuium
Marianne Kamp - With or Without Women's Movements?
Voldemar Tomusk - Harvesting on the Fields of Ignorance
George Tsebelis - Political Institutions of the EU
Michael Bernhard - Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival
Aleksander Kwasniewski - Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Conferences
Archived Events | 2008-15
2015
November 2015
WCED Lecture. “The Russian Economy in 2015.”
CANCELLED WCED Lecture. “Greece: What Happened?”
October 2015
Film. Rocks in My Pockets.
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker. “Sex, Madness, and Dentists: An Animated Life of Signe Baumane.”
WCED Lecture. “A New Cold War? Russia’s New Confrontation with the West.”
May 2015
WCED Exhibit. Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?
WCED Conference. “Sovereignty Under Threat?”
WCED Conference. “Sovereignty Under Threat?”
April 2015
WCED Lecture. “Redefining the State: Center-Right Party Outreach toward Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe.”
March 2015
WCED Lecture. “Trading Hard Hats for Combat Helmets: The Economics of Rebellion in East Ukraine.”
Conference. “Federalism in Good Times and Bad: An International Conference on Decentralization and the Welfare State.”
February 2015
WCED Lecture. “Is Democracy in Decline?”
WCED Lecture. “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”
January 2015
WCED Lecture. “Learning to Love Oil: Right-Sizing the Resource Curse.”
2014
December 2014
Film. The Guide (Povodyr).
November 2014
WCED Lecture. “Ukraine after Ukrainian Winter and Russian Spring: Issue of Regionalism Reconsidered.”
WCED Lecture. “Empire Strikes Back: The Dissolution of the USSR and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.”
Film. Road’s End – A Story from Latvia (Vägens Ände).
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. “People I Know.”
October 2014
WCED Lecture. “Bank Bailouts and Structural Power in the UK and US.”
September 2014
WCED Lecture. “Albania: Emerging Democracy towards the European Union.”
WCED Lecture. “Local Shocks: The Far Right in the 2014 European Elections.”
Penny Stamps/WCED Lecture. “Punk Prayer.”
April 2014
WCED Lecture. “The Power of Weak States in Central Asia.”
March 2014
Concert. Solomia Soroka and Arthur Greene: A Benefit for Victims of the EuroMaidan Conflict.
CANCELLED | WCED Lecture. “Economic Challenges Facing Eastern European Nations.”
Video Conference with students at L'viv University
February 2014
WCED Lecture. “Erosion of Rights in Russia: A Lawyer’s Perspective.”
2013
November 2013
WCED Lecture. “Is It Time to Stop Calling It the ‘Arab Spring’? Reconsidering North Africa through the Eyes of Women’s Rights Defenders.”
October 2013
WCED Lecture. “EU Leverage and National Interests in the Balkans: The Puzzles of Enlargement Ten Years On.”
WCED Lecture. “Shades of Orange: A Decade of Ukrainian Democracy.”
May 2013
WCED Conference. “Religion, Identity, and Politics.”
April 2013
WCED Lecture. “Acting Like a State.”
March 2013
WCED Lecture. “Getting Georgia Right: The Former Soviet Union’s Most Unexpected Country.”
WCED Lecture. “De-democratization in Romania? Assessing the Turbulent Year 2012.”
February 2013
WCED Lecture. “Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: The Waqf as Obstacle to Democratization.”
WCED Lecture. “Walk the Line: Ukraine between Russia and the EU.”
WCED Lecture. “After the Revolution: The Varied Fates of Former Oppositions in Transitions to Democracy.”
2012
December 2012
WCED Lecture. “Patronage, Politics, and Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon.”
November 2012
Central Asian Workshop. “Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia.”
WCED Lecture. “It’s the Politics, Stupid: Explaining the Eurocrisis.”
October 2012
WCED Lecture. “How to Undermine Democracy: Politics in Putin’s Russia.”
April 2012
WCED Symposium. "World Leaders Respond to the European Crisis: A View from Warsaw and Prague."
WCED Lecture. “Hungary’s Unconstitutional Constitution.”
February 2012
WCED Lecture. “Polish-Russian Reconciliation: Implications for Europe.”
2011
November 2011
WCED Lecture/Conversations on Europe. "Setting the Boundaries of Participation in Post-authoritarian Democracies: Lessons from Post-war Europe."
Lecture. "Women in the Arab Spring."
October 2011
WCED Lecture. “The Future of Europe.”
WCED Lecture. “Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Managing and Financing Growth Strategies.”
September 2011
WCED Lecture. “Managing a 21st-Century Security Agenda: U.S. Foreign Policy beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.”
April 2011
WCED Conference. “How Autocracies Work: Beyond the Electoral Paradigm.”
WCED Conference. “How Autocracies Work: Beyond the Electoral Paradigm.”
March 2011
WCED Panel. "Regional Revolutions: What the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe Tell Us about 2011 in the Middle East."
WCED Panel. "Making Democracy Work: Slovakia in the Last Decade."
February 2011
Film. The Green Zone.
WCED Lecture. “The Longest War: A Front-line View of the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan.”
2010
October 2010
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. “After ‘Cooperation for Kandahar’.”
WCED Lecture. “European Dimension of the Global Crisis.”
WCED Panel. “Electoral Surprises and Newcomers: The 2010 Elections in East-Central Europe.”
September 2010
Ford School Lecture. “Challenges of Managing Conflict in Today’s World.”
January 2010
WCED/CREES/Ford School Lecture. "U.S.-Russia Relations: Status of the 'Reset.'"
2009
December 2009
9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
November 2009
9s Project HOT AIR.
October 2009
9s WCED Lecture. “Purity and Danger in Romania’s ‘Transitional Justice’: Purging Enemies through the Securitate Files.”
9s WCED/EIHS Lecture. “Economic Crises as Transformative Events.”
September 2009
WCED/Ford School Lecture. “The Foreign Policy Agenda of the Obama Administration: The Practitioner's Perspective.”
April 2009
WCED Colloquium - "The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization in Postcommunist Space"
March 2009
WCED Colloquium - "Challenges to Promoting Democracy from the Ground Up"
February 2009
WCED Colloquium - "U.S. Diplomacy, Civil Society, and Democracy in the Middle East and Europe"
2008
December 2008
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture - Carbon Democracy
WCED Lecture - With or Without Women's Movements? Democratization, Economic Transformation, and Women's Equality in Central Asia
November 2008
*CANCELED* WCED Lecture - Challenges for Democracy in the European Neighborhood - Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus
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
October 2008
Postponed to Nov 19: WCED Lecture - Challenges for Democracy in the European Neighborhood - Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus
WCED Lecture - Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival: Liability or Advantage?
September 2008
WCEE/WCED Inaugural Lecture - Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
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