Welcome to the CREES multimedia archive. Audio and video recordings of CREES programs are available below, and many can also be viewed on the CREES YouTube channel.
2011-12 | Archive
Jewish Music in the Time of the Holocaust. CES End of Semester Luncheon/CREES Noon Lecture moderated by Timothy Cheek, associate professor of voice, U-M. Presenters: Kathryn Goodson, piano; Caroline Helton, assistant professor of voice, U-M; Allen Schrott, bass-baritone. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, CREES, and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. April 18, 2012. audio | video
World Leaders Respond to the European Crisis: A View from Warsaw and Prague. WCED Symposium with Petr Pithart, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1990-92); and Witold Sobków, Polish Ambassador to the United Nations. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and International Policy Center. April 17, 2012. audio | video
Hungary’s Unconstitutional Constitution. WCED Lecture by Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies, and CREES. This program made possible by a donation from Nicholas Kabcenell (BA Political Science ’85). April 10, 2012. audio | video
Beyond the Tower: What Happens When Your Grad School Application Essay Comes True. CREES Noon Lecture by Edwin Paxson (MA REES ’93, JD Law ’92), principal counsel, International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. Sponsored by CREES and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. April 4, 2012. audio | video
Cinema Komunisto: Reconstructing Yugoslav Identity on Film. CREES Noon Lecture by Mila Turajlić, documentary film director. Sponsored by CREES. March 14, 2012. audio | video
China’s Urban Ecological Shadow? Contextualizing Resource Flows from Russia’s Forests. CREES Noon Lecture by Josh Newell, assistant professor of natural resources and environment, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. March 7, 2012. audio | video
Sin and Salvation in the History of Russian Spirituality. CREES Noon Lecture by Victor Zhivov, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, University of California, Berkeley and Institut russkogo iazyka, Akademiia nauk. Sponsored by CREES. February 22, 2012. audio | video
Polish-Russian Reconciliation: Implications for Europe. WCED Lecture by Adam Daniel Rotfeld, professor of humanities, Warsaw University; and former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Copernicus Endowment, Center for European Studies, CREES, and International Policy Center. February 21, 2012. audio | video
Writing the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1839-1915. CREES Noon Lecture by Alexander Morrison, lecturer in imperial history, University of Liverpool. Sponsored by CREES. February 8, 2012. audio | video
Wiera Gran: A Singer, A Collaborator? The Other Side of Polanski’s Pianist. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Agata Tuszyńska, writer. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, CREES, and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. January 24, 2012. audio | video
Arbitrary Borders? The Logic of Bolshevik Boundary-Making in the South Caucasus, 1921-25. CREES Noon Lecture by Arsene Saparov, Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. January 11, 2012. audio | video
The First Free Post-Soviet Generation: Youth in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. CREES Noon Lecture by Nadia Diuk, vice president, programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy. Sponsored by CREES and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 9, 2011. audio | video
On Again, Off Again: Freedom of Speech in Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Victor Shenderovich, writer. Sponsored by CREES and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 2, 2011. Due to technical difficulties, the audio and video recordings begin about 20 minutes into the presentation. We apologize for not being able to post the complete lecture. audio | video
From Mountain Fairies to Fender Guitars: The Power of Myth in the Music and Times of Goran Bregović. CREES Noon Lecture by Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, composer, performer, and professor of music technology, New York University. Sponsored by CREES and Center for European Studies. October 12, 2011. audio | video
Normalizing Russia: The Empire Effect. CREES Noon Lecture by Jane Burbank, professor of history and Russian and Slavic studies, New York University. Sponsored by CREES. September 28, 2011. audio | video
Milosz: Made in America. Annual Copernicus Lecture in the Zell Visiting Writers Series with Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Lillian Vallée, Bogdana Carpenter, and Benjamin Paloff. Sponsored by the Copernicus Endowment, Michigan Slavic Publications, Zell Visiting Writers Series, and others. September 22, 2011. more information | video
Re-imagining the East: Russian Discourse on Asia in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. CREES Noon Lecture by Olga Maiorova, CREES director and associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. September 14, 2011. audio | video
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