John J. Sullivan, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center, 601 University Ave. @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has lasted longer than many observers anticipated. Yet as new crises emerge around the world, the war’s significance is often overshadowed. Its outcome remains critically important not only to the …
Zoom @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Please join representatives of CREECA and other interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern universities to find which program is best for you. Each institution will give a brief introduction …
Ruta Sepetys
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
online event
Set in Romania in 1989, I Must Betray You follows seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu, an aspiring writer blackmailed by the secret police into becoming an informer. As communist regimes crumble across Europe, Cristian risks everything to …
Johanna Buchner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: The Caucasus, a mountainous region encompassing Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and parts of southern Russia, has undergone profound political and social change since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including four armed conflicts. …
Wilmar Neighborhood Center 504 S Brearly St Madison, WI 53703 @ 3:00 pm
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Žaibas, the only Lithuanian folk dance group in Wisconsin, invites the public to celebrate their dancing since 1991 and all the great teachers and dancers through so many years and hours of practices. There will …
Tova Benjamin, Davidson College
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
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 …
Elena Kostyuchenko
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, Wi. @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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RENEWING OUR COURAGE will gather news media professionals, media innovators, academics, students and the public to take on the urgent ethical issues facing the practice of journalism in increasingly authoritarian times. With a mix of panel …
Yana Skorobogatov, Gladys and Roland Harriman Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Columbia University
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
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 …
Verona Public Library, Verona, Wisconsin @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us at the Verona Public Library for a community program dedicated to raising awareness about the Holodomor, the Soviet-engineered famine that devastated Ukraine in 1932–1933. Designed especially for American audiences who may know little …
Denis Shedov, University of Helsinki
Ingraham 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
About the Lecture: For more than twenty years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) served as the most important international venue for Russian human rights lawyers. Through the Court, they challenged torture, political persecution, …