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-sponsored Film in the Ann Arbor Film Festival. 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...
