Happening @ Michigan

WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Erase the Nation (2023, 56 min)

Followed by Q&A with film director and war journalist Tomasz Grzywaczewski. Moderator, Joseph Sywenkyj, Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism, LSA, Communication and Media, U-M

"Erase the Nation" is a documentary war film that sheds light on the tragic chapter of Russian war crimes committed against...

WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Soldiers of Song (2024, 90 min, dir. Ryan Smith)

Musicians unite a war-torn Ukraine through song, sharing stories of resilience and hope amid the Russian invasion. A tribute to courage and...

CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South

Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University

Yugoslavia’s pivot away from the Eastern Bloc and toward decolonizing countries in the Global South, which resulted in the founding of the...

WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Lina (2024, 30 min, dir. Mykola Nosok & Oleksiy Oliyar)

Panel Discussion

Panel discussion featuring: Sylvia Ellison, Senior Advisor, Save Ukraine; Ambassador Craig L. Johnstone, Co-Founder of The Humanity Funds;...

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...

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...

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. 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...