Register on the European Studies site here. Signe Baumane, Animator December 9th, 2021 4:00 – 5:15 PM via Zoom Signe Baumane will discuss her animated films, particularly Rocks in my Pockets (2014), a film about …
CREECA Lecture Series – Fall 2021
CREECA Lecture: Social Policy and Societal Change In Moscow: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program
Regina Smyth, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University Thursday, December 2, 4:00-5:15 224 Ingraham Hall The introduction of an expansive housing reform in Moscow in 2017–the destruction and replacement of Khrushchev-era five story buildings–reflected a …
CREECA Lecture: Spending Preferences of Russian Regional Governors
Dmitriy Vorobyev, PRIGO University (Czech Republic) November 11, 2021, 4:00-5:15pm 224 Ingraham Hall Dmitriy Vorobyev analyzes a unique dataset on personal characteristics of Russian regional governors serving between 2006 and 2019. Many of these governors …
CREECA Lecture: Ethnic and Religious Identities in Russian Penal Institutions: A Case Study of Uzbek Transnational Prisoners
REGISTER HERE Rustamjon Urinboyev, Associate Professor of Sociology of Law, Lund University November 4, 2021, 4:00-5:15 via Zoom Russia has become one of the main global migration hubs following the collapse of the Soviet Union. …
CREECA Lecture: Václav Havel’s Legacy: A Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion October 28, 2021 4:00-5:30pm via Zoom REGISTER HERE In December of this year, ten years will have passed since the death of the Czech writer, dissident, and statesman Václav Havel. Please join us …
CREECA Lecture: Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia
Brigid O’Keeffe, Professor of History, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York October 21, 2021, 4:00pm-5:15pm via Zoom REGISTER HERE In 1887, a Jewish eye doctor named L.L. Zamenhof launched his international auxiliary …
CREECA Lecture: Photography in the Russian Poetic Imagination
Dr. Molly T. Blasing, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University of Kentucky October 14, 2021 4:00 – 5:15pm 224 Ingraham Hall Dr. Molly Blasing will present material from her recent book, Snapshots of the Soul: …
CREECA Lecture: Why Fight? Motivations of the Anti-Kyiv Militants in the Donbass War
Natalia Savelyeva, Sociologist, Public Sociology Laboratory, Center for Independent Social Research September 30, 2021 4:00 – 5:15 224 Ingraham Hall The war conflict in Eastern Ukraine started in 2014 and it is still far from …
CREECA Lecture: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania September 23, 4:00-5:15pm https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94275543808 Rather than treat Soviet dissidents as avatars of Western liberalism, or take their appeals to rights and legal norms as natural, …
CREECA Fall 2021 Welcome and Roundtable
Please join us for a gathering to mark the start of a new academic year. Members of the CREECA faculty Kathryn Hendley (Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Political Science), David Danaher (Professor of Slavic Languages …