CREECA Lecture Series – Fall 2026

CREECA Lecture Series Events

• Sep

  10

  "White Film: Tonality and Tone in Soviet Cinema," a lecture by Maria Belodubrovskaya September 10, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Ingraham 206
  

  This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair in Russian History and Department of Communication Arts Film Colloquium. About the Lecture: When Soviet films were shown in the United States in the 1930s …

• Sep

  17

  “A Voice in the Wilderness: The Vita Nova Publishing House and Its Anti-Nazi Program,” a lecture by Michael Wachtel September 17, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  

  Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. About the lecture: The talk is based on approximately 800 pages of …

• Sep

  24

  "Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double," a lecture by Allen Kuharski September 24, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Ingraham 206
  

  This lecture is co-sponsored by the Lapinski Family Fund and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. About the Lecture: Witold Gombrowicz is Poland’s most produced playwright around the world—and more performed abroad than in Poland …

• Oct

  01

  "'Radical Muslims': Anticolonial Solidarities Across Muslim Eurasia, 1914-1925," a lecture by Adeeb Khalid October 1, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Ingraham 206
  

  This lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair in Russian History and is offered as part of International Education Week. About the Lecture: The denouement of the Great War produced an arc of overlapping crises …

• Oct

  29

  "The Russian ‘Dreyfus Affair’: Capitalism and Antisemitism in the Pan European Perspective," a lecture by Tova Benjamin October 29, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Ingraham 206
  

  This lecture is co-sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. About the Lecture: The year 1894 saw two highly publicized and controversial trials in Europe, both involving Jewish men by the name of Dreyfus. The …

• Nov

  05

  "Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union," a Book Talk by Yana Skorobogatov November 5, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Ingraham 206
  

  About the Lecture: This lecture will offer an overview of Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union, which came out in July 2026 with the University of Chicago Press. From 1954 …