CREES Noon Lecture. When Everyday Life Becomes an Event: Mobility in the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict Zone
Görkem Aydemir-Kundakci, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
What does it take to sustain an ordinary life in a place shaped by decades of unresolved conflict and political uncertainty? Drawing on...
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities...
Whose City? Street Art and the Performance of Belonging in Tbilisi, Georgia
CWPS Faculty Lecture with Greta Uehling
Join us in the Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) at the Michigan League for a presentation by Greta Uehling, a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow with the...
CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Reading through the Double Archival Grain: Yugoslav Socialist Humanitarianism and its Whiteness
Čarna Brković, professor of cultural studies and European ethnology, University of Mainz
For the 2026 Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture, Professor Čarna Brković will consider different forms of affective engagement with...
Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University)
This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict,...
33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...
33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...
33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...
CREES Noon Lecture. Rehabilitative Postsocialism, Racialised Capital, and Yearning for Crip Horizon
Kateřina Kolářová, associate professor of sociology, Charles University, Prague
Drawing on her new book, Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe, Kateřina Kolářová will...
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities...
CREES Noon Lecture. Who Defines Central Asia? Decolonial Disruptions from Below
Erica Marat, Adjunct Faculty, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
A consequential shift is taking place in Central Asian studies today. What started as a slow rejection of the idea that the region benefited...
