CMENAS and CREES Lecture. Between Russia and China: Central Asia's Relevance
David Abramson, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research
The speaker will address the changing geopolitics of Eurasia, particularly the Central Asia-Russia-China relations. He will assess the...
CREES Noon Lecture. From Land to Sea: Reconceptualizing Southeastern Europe as a 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...
Film Screening | Coming Full Circle
Directed by Ara Shirinyan; 2017
"Coming Full Circle" is a collective version of three documentaries produced by "Versus" studio on the Great Repatriation of Armenians...
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...
WCED Lecture. The Politics of Secrecy in the Age of Revolutions
Katlyn Carter, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Americans have recently been questioning the propriety of secrecy in government, particularly in the legislative process. As partisan...
WCED Lecture. Civil Courts and Authoritarian Stability
Margaret Hanson, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Post-Soviet Kazakhstan has been ruled by a single, personalist dictator since independence, and power is concentrated among a narrow elite....
