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CREES organizes over 50 public events each year such as lectures, conferences, films, and mini-courses, many in collaboration with other U-M units. Please see our searchable events calendar for information on upcoming programs. Our special events page highlights particularly notable series and events. Our multimedia page includes audio and video files from area-focused events.
Regional Programs
CREES's academic programs and events related to Armenia, Central Asia, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, the Russian Federation, and Southeastern Europe are featured in our Regional Programs pages.
Fall 2009 Events Calendar
Click here to see a complete calendar of Fall 2009 events.
Upcoming Events
November 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 1022 Thayer Building.
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In the Russian tradition, the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg are often perceived as the opposite ends of a fundamental cultural opposition, which can be projected onto virtually all aspects of life. Pavel Lion will present a unique view of this dichotomy through the prism of Post-Soviet klezmer revival by comparing and contrasting the two capitals of Russian-Jewish klezmer. In his lecture, which will be accompanied by video and audio materials, he will explore the respective policies, promotion strategies, repertoires, shared (and not shared) attitudes, reputations, resources, and audiences.
Dr Pavel Lion (Psoy Korolenko) is the Artist-in-Residence with the Center for World Performance Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. He is widely known in Russia and in the Russian-speaking diaspora as an innovative artist, singer, poet, journalist. His scholarly interests include Russian literature, Jewish music, Yiddish culture, and performance studies. His visit to the University of Michigan is co-sponsored by CREES, Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, Department of Comparative Literature, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, and LSA.
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Pavel Lion (Psoy), songwriter, singer, performer, and philologist. Sponsors: Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, CREES, WCED.
November 12, 2009
6:00PM - 8:00PM, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 1010 Thayer Building
9s Exhibition Opening. REDUX/The Berlin Wall. 1989/2009.
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Photos by Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages and professor of Near Eastern studies, U-M. Sponsors: IH, Copernicus Endowment, CES-EUC, WCED. The exhibition runs through Dec 11 (M-F, 9 am-5 pm).
November 15, 2009
3:00PM - 4:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
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The inspirational story of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 - a bloodless achievement comparable to the movements of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. - and the legacy of apathy left behind.
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Cory Taylor, director. Documentary film about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 narrated by Jeremy Irons (78 min., 2009). Free and open to the public. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: UMMA, CES-EUC, CICS, CREES, IPC, WCED.
November 17, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
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The inspirational story of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 - a bloodless achievement comparable to the movements of Mahatma Gandhi and martin Luther King Jr. - and the legacy of apathy left behind.
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Cory Taylor, director. Documentary film about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 narrated by Jeremy Irons (78 min., 2009). Free and open to the public. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: UMMA, CES-EUC, CICS, CREES, IPC, WCED.
November 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
CANCELED CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Modern Zagreb: City as Open Work.”
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Eve Blau, adjunct professor and director, Master in Architecture Degree Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Sponsors: CREES, CES-EUC.
November 24, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Film. Song from the Southern Seas.
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Marat Sarulu, director. A darkly comic feud is ignited when a Russian man suspects that his son is the result of an affair between his wife and a Kazakh neighbor. Russian with English subtitles (80 min., 2008). Free and open to the public.
December 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
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Jessica Fisher, (MA REES/MPP Public Policy) 2009 CRIF Grantee. “The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): A Comprehensive Approach to Security.”
Monica Lopez-Lerma, (PhD Comparative Literature) 2009 Jean Monnet Fellow. “The Forgettings of the Law of Historical Memory.”
Mark Rudolf, (BSE Biomedical Engineering/German minor) 2009 CES-EUC Summer Grantee. “Summer in Saarland: Summer Internship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering.”
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Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES.
December 04, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Henderson Room, Michigan League
9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
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The 20th anniversary of 1989 stimulates reflections on the momentous events from Germany to China that promised change in the world. But the end of other decades—1979 in Iran and Afghanistan, the financial crisis in 1929, and in exemplary ways, 1789 in France—inspire similar commemorative reconsiderations. These and other “nines” include moments of transition and change, possibility and crisis. While the promise of democracy might frame our reflections on 1989, it is not enough to help us appreciate how other radical transformations were conceived or experienced, and indeed, what the iconic “1989” also embodied beyond democracy’s extension. We need to better understand how world-historic events shape the imagination, and how visions of the world and its perceived trajectories can shape the course of events.
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, together with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs addressing the relationship between world-historic events and alternative visions of the world embedded in these times. This series will explore 1989 alongside historical transformations of the many other iconic “nines” of the modern era and the alternative futures they inspired.
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Conveners: Dario Gaggio, CES-EUC director; Mary Gallagher, CCS director; Michael D. Kennedy, CREES research associate and Howard R. Swearer Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; and Douglas Northrop, CREES director.
December 07, 2009
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
Zell Visiting Writer Series - Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading
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Piotr Sommer is a poet, translator, anthology editor and essayist. Born in 1948, he grew up in Otwock, a small town outside of Warsaw, studied English at the University of Warsaw, and now edits Literatura na Swiecie (Literature in the World), a Polish magazine of international writing. He taught poetry at several American universities; has published twelve books of poetry in Polish; and has written two books of essays on poetry and translation. He is also the author of numerous translations from American, English, and Irish poetry, and has had two collections published in translation: Things to Translate and Other Poems (1991), and Ein freier Tag in April (2002), which have appeared in German, Slovak, Slovenian, and English.
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Poetry reading by Piotr Sommer, Polish poet. The sponsors
of the Zell Visiting Writers Series are the Department
of English Language and Literature, the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan, and Helen Zell. Co-sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment and Department of Comparative Literature.
December 08, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Rackham Amphitheatre
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Ronald G. Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and professor of history, U-M. Sponsor: LSA.
December 09, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Rackham Auditorium
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About his lecture, Andrei Codrescu writes, “I covered the events in Romania in 1989-1990 for NPR and ABC News, and I documented the return to my native country in The Hole in the Flag: an Exile's Story of Return & Revolution (Morrow 1991, Avon 1992). I have returned numerous times since and I started writing in Romanian again, picking up the thread severed at age 19 in 1965. Now, twenty years after the coup, or “revolution” that ended in the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Romania is a different country, a member of the European Union, and an ardent convert to capitalism. My talk will focus on reality and appearances in Romania, and the role of the media, of which I am a part, in shaping the images of the “revolution” and those of the new Romania.”
Andrei Codrescu’s career spans four decades as novelist, poet, journalist, filmmaker, commentator, and educator. His work has been distinguished with numerous awards, including the Peabody Award and the Pushcart Prize. He was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until 2009, and continues to edit Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters, an online journal he founded at LSU in 1983. His most recent book is The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess (Princeton 2009).
“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs 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.
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Andrei Codrescu, poet, essayist, and novelist. Sponsors: CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group, CES-EUC, Department of English, GLL, International Institute, MFA in Creative Writing Program.
December 10, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB
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“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs 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.
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Grigore Pop-Eleches, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES, WCED.
December 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State.
9s American-Romanian Festival Films.
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“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs 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.
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Children of the Decree. Florin Iepan, director (68 min., 2004). Architecture and Power. Nicolae Margineanu, director (52 min., 1994). Tickets $5 at the door. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: ARF, Inc.; Ager Film; U-M’s UMMA, CES-EUC, CREES.
December 15, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Film. Song from the Southern Seas.
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Marat Sarulu, director. A darkly comic feud is ignited when a Russian man suspects that his son is the result of an affair between his wife and a Kazakh neighbor. Russian with English subtitles (80 min., 2008). Free and open to the public.
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