Welcome

CREES, a constituent unit of the University of Michigan International Institute, is a U.S. Department of Education-supported National Resource Center. CREES also receives US/ED funds to award Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. In September 2008, CREES became an affiliate of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, a new unit at the International Institute that works in common association with the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, CREES, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. 

Please browse the CREES website for information on the Center's academic, regional studies, and outreach programs as well as on its affiliated faculty and staff.  

Douglas Northrop
CREES Director

Announcements

Check out the 2009 issue of Kopernikana  

CREES Online Giving now available

CREES announces 2009 CREES Research, Internship, and Fellowship Program grantees

CREES congratulates 2008-09 graduates in Russian and East European Studies

Josef Blass and Ewa Schaff-Blass establish endowment at CREES to honor U-M professor

Student Information

CREES Courses Spring-Summer 2009

CREES Courses Fall 2009

Innovative Distance Uzbek courses to be offered at U-M in 2009-10

See the CREES announcement blog for CFPs, job and funding postings, events, and more.

Upcoming Events

CREES events will resume in Fall 2009. They include "The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009," a series cosponsored with other Weiser Center affiliates and U-M partners exploring the relationship between world-historic events and the alternative futures they inspired. From the explosion of alternatives in 1919 to the normalization of democratic destinies in 1989, from the crisis of 1929 to the anxieties of 2009, this series will delve into the many iconic "nines" of the modern era.

Multimedia

CREES programs are available in audio and/or video format in the CREES section of U-M's iTunes U.

The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization in Postcommunist Space. WCED Colloquium with M. Steven Fish, University of California, Berkeley. (audio )

What is Ukrainian about Ukraine's Pop Culture? The Strange Case of Verka Serduchka. CREES Lecture by Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria. (audio ) 

Afghanistan--The Once and Future War. CREES Panel with David B. Edwards, Williams College; Alessandro Monsutti, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; and M. Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University (video on U-M's iTunes U)

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