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WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Soldiers of Song (2024, 90 min, dir. Ryan Smith)
Musicians unite a war-torn Ukraine through song, sharing stories of resilience and hope amid the Russian invasion. A tribute to courage and...
CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
Yugoslavia’s pivot away from the Eastern Bloc and toward decolonizing countries in the Global South, which resulted in the founding of the...
Dr. Olga Morozova: Extended-Release Buprenorphine (BUP-XR) for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence in the Context of the War in Ukraine
Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) represents a critical intervention for reducing illicit opioid use and opioid-related mortality....
Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 5
Crimean Tatars, Colonial Aphasia, and Ukraine’s Decolonial Horizon / Greta Uehling
This talk analyzes Russia’s imperial domination of Ukraine through the longue durée of Crimean Tatar dispossession, arguing that Crimean...
Furious Harvests
Ukrainian Poetry and Remembrance / Reading by Alex Averbuch, in conversation with Benjamin Paloff
A poetry reading by Alex Averbuch from his new collection "Furious Harvests" (Harvard UP, trans. from Ukrainian by Oksana...
WCEE Teach-In On Ukraine: Where Are We Today, Four Years Into the War?
Join U-M faculty and experts as they discuss the current situation in Ukraine, with the latest developments and issues sharply in view, four...
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Lina (2024, 30 min, dir. Mykola Nosok & Oleksiy Oliyar)
Panel Discussion
Panel discussion featuring: Sylvia Ellison, Senior Advisor, Save Ukraine; Ambassador Craig L. Johnstone, Co-Founder of The Humanity Funds;...
II Teach-In. The World at a Tipping Point: U.S. Foreign Policy Through a Global Lens
Omolade Adunbi, Elizabeth King, Gavin Arnall, Ann Lin; Moderated by: Youngju Ryu
II Teach-In. The World at a Tipping Point: U.S. Foreign Policy Through a Global Lens...
WCEE Lecture. The Roots of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria
Putin’s regime has advanced various pretexts for invading Ukraine, including NATO expansion, Ukraine’s alleged “neo-Nazi...
WCEE Emerging Issues Lecture. Why Greenland Matters Now
Gabriella Gricius, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute, and Fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network
Greenland and the wider circumpolar Arctic are no longer peripheral concerns to observers of geopolitics, but are now central sites of...
TedXUofM 2026
Baktygul Chynybaeva, First-year student in the Masters in Regional Studies - Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies specialization, and CREES Alumni Klementina Sula, MA Public Policy 2011
This year’s TEDxUofM features two CREES-affiliated speakers!...
CREES Noon Lecture. A Global Perspective on Campaigns for Reproductive Rights: Insights from Soviet and Contemporary Russia
Michele Rivkin-Fish, UNC-Chapel Hill
The first ever public campaign to defend access to legal abortion in Russia took place in 2011. Notably, Russian advocates avoided common...
CREES Film. Divia
Dmytro Hreshko, director
A meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded land, Divia unfolds without dialogue or narration as a metaphysical symphony. Through...
CCPS Lecture. Poland’s Socialist Globalisation
Max Cegielski, journalist, writer and curator
Between the political thaw of 1955 and the collapse of the socialist project in 1989, the Polish People's Republic developed close,...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain: Bulgarian Computers and The Society They Tried to Build
Victor Petrov, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
How did a small Balkan state become a Cold War power in the electronic field during its socialist period? During the years of late...
CCPS Lecture. The Trauma of Serfdom: The Psychological Legacy of Unfree Labor in Poland
Kacper Pobłocki, social anthropologist, writer, and associate professor at the University of Warsaw
Coerced labor was a defining feature of the early modern world. While Atlantic slavery has received most scholarly attention, Eastern...
CCPS Lecture. East of the Atlantic. Black and White (But Not Quite)
Oliwia Bosomtwe, author
Oliwia Bosomtwe, the author of Jak biały człowiek (2024) [Like a White Man], explores the stories of people of African descent...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Last Soviet Artist
Victoria Lomasko, artist and writer
The Last Soviet Artist (n+1, 2025), finished by Victoria Lomasko three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a collection of...
