Happening @ Michigan

WCED Lecture. Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the End of East European Serfdom

Brendan McElroy, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M

The predominant analysis of representative institutions in the development literature casts them as the guardians of property against...

CREES Noon Lecture. The Insecurity State: Views from Belarus

Misha Friedman, photographer

2017 marked the 23rd year of power of Aleksandr Lukashenko over Belarus. In those years, his opponents have been silenced, murdered, exiled,...

WCED Roundtable Discussion. Flashpoint: Afghanistan

Panelists: Adam E. Casey, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs,...

CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability Dialogue

Mark Pekala (BA Political Science '81), former. U.S. Ambassador to Latvia

This is an in-person event for U-M students only. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed. This event’s RSVP will open on Monday,...

CREES Noon Lecture. Does Culture Matter? Complexity, Creativity, and Social Change in the Kyrgyz Republic

Noor O’Neill Borbieva, Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Although culture is one of American anthropology’s signature analytical concepts, interest in the culture concept has waned in recent...

Piano Recital: Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies 1-15

American Liszt Society Festival...

Faculty Chamber Music Recital - American Liszt Society Festival

University of Michigan faculty...

Guest Recital: Contemporary Piano Music - Works of Danielpour, Kocsár, Fekete, and Dubrovay

from Seven Mysteries - Richard Danielpour...

CCPS Lecture. The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine

Patrice Dabrowski, associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the Carpathian mountain system were discovered for a...

Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Indomitable Violence: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe

Julián Casanova, professor of contemporary history, University of Zaragoza; visiting professor, Central European University

The analysis of indomitable violence in Europe that Professor Casanova proposes in his new book breaks with the widely accepted division of...

CREES Noon Lecture. The Image is the Frame: Revolution, Aesthetics, and Gender in 21st Century Ukraine

Jessica Zychowicz (PhD Slavic '15), Director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and Institute of International Education Kyiv Office

This lecture draws upon over a decade of research toward the book, Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in Twenty-First...

WCEE Book Series. In The Midst Of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms Of 1918-1921 And The Onset Of The Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the...