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Slavic Chocolate Party!
Chocolate is a universal language—especially in the Slavic world!...
The Eisendrath Symposium: Covering Migration in Europe
Covering Migration in Europe: Displacement, Trauma and Reporting on Vulnerable Sources
Wallace House Presents a WCEE Panel and Eisendrath Symposium Event...
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...
Ann Arbor Film Festival. Short Films by Ukrainian Filmmakers
This year's Ann Arbor Film Festival has dedicated one entire Shorts in Competition program to the work of Ukrainian...
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...
Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Flowers of Ukraine
Adelina Borets, director
A portrait of Natalia, a strong, independent, and anarchist woman fighting to protect her land against all odds. What begins as a struggle...
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...
II Cineforum
Italian Classics on Campus
II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus Film Screening Series...
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...
