CREECA Online Lectures
The following lectures were sponsored by CREECA. There are two ways to listen to CREECA lecture: Podcast or clicking on the links below. To listen to the lectures you will need to download either the free Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.
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Fall 2008 Lectures
Lay Participation in Judicial Proceedings in East EuropeSanja Kutnjak Ivkovic (Michigan State University)October 2, 2008 |
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Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan: The Role of 'Maliks,' 'Mullahs,' and 'Jirgas' in Local GovernanceJennifer Brick (UW-Madison)September 25, 2008 |
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Failures of Independence in Central AsiaRussell Zanca (Northeastern Illinois University)September 11, 2008 |
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Conflict in the Caucasus: A Panel Discussion about GeorgiaFeaturing David McDonald, Uli Schamiloglu, and Robert Kaiser UW-Madison); moderated by Kathryn HendleySeptember 9, 2008 |
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'Our Japanese Brothers': Anti-colonialism and Asian-ism among the Muslims of the Russian EmpireDanielle Ross - UW-Madison
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Spring 2008 Lectures
The Mongol Empire and AlcoholThomas Allsen - College of New Jersey
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Cross Cultural Communication: Examples from Kazakh, Russian, and American EnglishMaral Nurtazina - University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Increasing Vulnerability: The Homeless, Alcohol, and Mortality in RussiaWilliam Pridemore - Indiana University
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From Bedros Tourian to Paul Celan: L’Oeuvre au NoirJames Russell - Harvard University
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The Treasures of Sarmation NobilityAnatoly Symonenko - Princeton University
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Dmitry Shostakovich and Azerbaijani MusicAida Huseynova - Indiana University
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Legal Connections: Litigation, Supervision, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial RussiaJane Burbank - New York University
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Kazakh Chinggisids and Their Lands under Russian Rule in the 19th CenturyVirginia Martin - University of Wisconsin
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Talking About Law in Russia Kathryn Hendleys - University of Wisconsin
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The Decline to Very Low Fertility in Ukraine and Russia Brianna Perelli-Harris - University of Wisconsin
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Fall 2007 Lectures
Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia Yoshiko Herrera - University of Wisconsin
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Justice Sector Reform in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Case Study from Kosovo Suren Avanesyan - National Center for State Courts
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Innovation within Tradition: Women Ashiqs of Azerbaijan Anna Senarslan - University of Wisconsin
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The Last Soviet Dreamer: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin Jochen Hellbeck - Rutgers University
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"Balkanology and EUrology: Recent Developments and Future Changes"Victor Friedman - University of Chicago
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"Housing Divides: The Causes and Consequences of Housing Inequality in Russia"Jane Zavisca - University of Arizona
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"Russia 's Sputnik Generation: Interviewing Soviet Baby Boomers"Donald J. Raleigh - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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"Traditional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians and Oral Epic in the Balkans: A Comparison of Performers and Performance"Margaret Beissinger - Princeton University
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"Identity and Diversity in Romani (Gypsy) Musical Culture"Margaret Beissinger - Princeton University
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"Nikita Khrushchev: The Man and His Era"William Taubman - Amherst College
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Spring 2007 Lectures
"Turizm: Soviet Travel, Leisure, and Nation-Building in the Khrushchev Thaw"Anne Gorsuch - University of British Columbia
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"The Russian Far East: Economic and Security Challenges and Perspectives"Sergey Sevastyanov - Vladivostok State University
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"Islamic Resurgence in Central Asia and the Caucasus"Kathleen Collins - University of Minnesota
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"Belarus: Europe's Last Dictatorship or Populist State?"David Marples - University of Alberta.
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"Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz"Jan Gross - Princeton University
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"Cabaret in a World War II Jewish Ghetto: Spiritual Resistance?"Lisa Peschel - University of Minnesota
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"Rules of the Game for Russian Entrepreneurs: How Informal Institutions Mediate Application of Dysfunctional Law"Ella Paneyakh - University of Michigan
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"Alternatve Visions: Telling the Truth After the End of Yugoslavia"Toma Longinovic - UW Madison
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"Dostum 'the Taliban Killer': Living With a Northern Alliance Warlord"Brian Williams - University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
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How to See the World (On Someone Else's Budget)Stephanie Griest, Author
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The Groundfloor of Peacebuilding: Grassroots Influence in the BalkansPaula Pickering, College of William and Mary
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Property Rights and Property Wrongs in RussiaTimothy Frye, Columbia University
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Bugs in Twentieth-Century Russian LiteratureShannon Donnally Spasova, UW-Madison
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'It's Hard to Convey': Memory, the Gulag, and Issues in Oral HistoryJehanne Gheith, Duke University
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"Chekov at the Moscow Art Theater"Anatoly Smeliansky, Head of the Moscow Art Theatre School
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Fall 2006 Lectures
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"Cauldron of Terrorism or Bowl of Kasha? New Survey Data from North Caucaus "Ted Gerber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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"We Have Never Been German " or "What Kaliningrad Can Teach Us About Social Memory"Olga Sezneva, University of Chicago
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"Turkey's EU Path: How Long is the Journey "Soner Cagaptay, Director of Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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"EU Accession and the Politics of Rescaling in the Estonian - Russian Borderlands"Robert J. Kaiser, Professor of Geography, UW-Madison
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"Hungarian Roma Self-Governance: Help or Hindrance?"Robert Koulish, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Goucher College
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"Why do Postcommunist Parties in New Democracies Hurt Themselves? A Model of Strategic Preemption"Monika Nalepa, Assistant Professor of Policial Science, Rice University
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"Crime and Punishment: The Remarkable Theatre of Kama Ginkas"Manon van de Water, Associate Professor of Theatre, UW Madison
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"Ferdinand Vanek is Misunderstood: Vaclav Havel's Political and Philosophical Ideas"James Pontuso, Elliott Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College, VA.
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"People and Procedures: Toward the History of the Investigations of the Nazi War Crimes in the USSR"Marina Sorokina, Senior Researcher at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Department Head at the Russkoe zarubezh'e Library-Foundation.
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"Retreat from Europe? Illiberal Populism and Homophobia in Latvia"Katrina Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.
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"Representation Through Taxation: Taxability and the Political Economy of Postcommunism"Scott Gehlbach, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UW Madison.
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"Judges Joining Revolutions: The Role of Courts in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan"Alexei Trochev is ais a Research Associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada).
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"Engineering Victory: Predicting the Effects of Institutional Change on United Russia's Electoral Success in 2007"Regina Smyth, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Indiana University.
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Archive of Lectures from Past Semesters
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