Franz Kafka in Central European Cultures of Memory
Professor Marek Nekula, University of Regensburg
The presentation reconstructs the main strains of the reception of Franz Kafka within the historiography of literature in Central Europe and...
CREES Noon Lecture. Nature, Consumption, and Waste in the Cold War and Beyond
Zsuzsa Gille, professor of sociology and director of global studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The goal of this lecture is to reevaluate state socialism’s environmental record from a transnational rather than a comparative...
Gala Mukomolova Roundtable Q&A
Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish,...
Gala Mukomolova Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish,...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism
An Eisenberg Forum
During the global economic crisis of 2008 many observers predicted that austerity economics would be discredited and abandoned, but over the...
CREES 60th Anniversary Signature Lecture. The Ukrainian Famine: What We Know Now—And Why It Matters
Anne Applebaum, foreign policy columnist, The Washington Post
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of...
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment...
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment...
