CREES Noon Lecture. Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism
Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M
It’s easy to be confused by the rhetoric of the current political struggle in Poland. On the one hand, the ruling party presents itself as...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Larry Wolff, Julius Silver Professor of History; director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; executive director, Remarque Institute, New York University
This lecture will consider the huge cultural phenomenon of operas about Turks that played out across the stages of Europe from the 1680s to...
CREES Noon Lecture. From Land to Sea: Reconceptualizing Southeastern Europe as Region
Pamela Ballinger, Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights, U-M
This talk asks how insights drawn from the oceanic or watery turn may help us rethink the Balkans, an area often conceptualized in highly...
CREES Noon Lecture. The Red Web Comes to the United States
Andrei Soldatov, investigative journalist
Despite the gloomy and depressing mood that swept Russia after the Russian government defeated the Moscow protests in 2012 and the patriotic...
Galvanizing Social Justice Through Comics
Art Spiegelman Presents: "Comics is the Yiddish of Art"
Art Spiegelman has helped bring comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for...
