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.
2012-13 | Archive
Escaping the Poverty Trap: Economic Convergence between Russian Regions in the 1990s and 2000s. CREES Noon Lecture with Sergei Guriev, professor of economics; president, Center for Economic and Financial Research; and rector, New Economic School. Sponsored by CREES, Department of Economics, WCED. March 27, 2013. video
Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. CREES Noon Lecture with Patrick Hyder Patterson, associate professor of history, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by CREES. March 20, 2013. video
Understanding Radical Evil: Communism and Fascism as Open Wounds. CREES Noon Lecture with Vladimir Tismaneanu, professor of comparative politics, University of Maryland. Sponsored by CREES, WCED, and CES. March 13, 2013. video
Dangerous Art: From Varvara Stepanova to Pussy Riot. CREES Noon Lecture with Irina Aristarkhova, associate professor of art & design, University of Michigan. Sponsored by CREES. February 6, 2013. video
Who Won the London Olympics? Soviet Communism and the Olympic Movement. CREES Noon Lecture with Robert Edelman, professor of history, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by CREES. January 23, 2013. video
Chaplin and the Russian Avant-Garde: The Law of Fortuity in Art. CREES Noon Lecture by Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Sponsored by CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group. January 16, 2013. video
Claiming Ancestral Homelands: Mongolian Kazakh Migration in Inner Asia. CREES Noon Lecture by Anna Genina, doctoral candidate, anthropology, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. December 5, 2012. audio | video
Collectivization and the Restratification of Everyday Life in Romania, 1949-1962. CREES Noon Lecture by Gail Kligman, professor of sociology and director, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Sponsored by CREES. November 28, 2012. audio | video
A Conversation with Irina Prokhorova: To Understand Russia with the Mind. CREES Lecture by Irina Prokhorova, editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer magazine and publishing house; co-founder, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund. Sponsored by CREES, University Library, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 19, 2012. video
Uzbek Conundrum, or How a Society within a Society Was Built and Then Decimated in Kyrgyzstan, 1990-2010. CREES Noon Lecture by Morgan Liu (PhD anthropology ‘02), associate professor of anthropology and Near Eastern languages and cultures, Ohio State University. Sponsor: CREES. November 7, 2012. audio | video
Estimating Unregistered Migration into the Russian Federation: Insights from the United States. CREES Noon Lecture/Rackham Centennial Lecture by Cynthia Buckley (MA REES ‘87, PhD Sociology ‘91), professor of sociology, University of Illinois. Sponsored by CREES, Rackham Graduate College, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 31, 2012. audio | video
How to Undermine Democracy: Politics in Putin’s Russia. WCED lecture by Kathryn Stoner, deputy director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and CREES. October 25, 2012. audio | video
Igor Stravinsky’s Lost Ballet: Le Sacre du Printemps. CREES Noon Lecture by Christian Matijas Mecca, associate professor of dance, U-M. Sponsored by CREES. October 24, 2012. audio | video
Trade-in Your Human Rights: A Path to Sovereign Democracy. CREES lecture by Pavel Khodorkovsky, president, Institute of Modern Russia. Sponsored by CREES, Center for International and Comparative Studies, University Library, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 17, 2012. video
A Filmmaker’s Approach to Society’s Most Vexing Concerns. Annual Copernicus Lecture by Agnieszka Holland, director and screenwriter. Sponsored by U-M’s Copernicus Endowment, CREES, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures; the Michigan Theater, and Polish Cultural Fund - Ann Arbor. October 10, 2012 video
Constructing the Enlightened Metropolis: Modernity and Backwardness in Moscow, 1762-1855. CREES Noon Lecture by Alexander Martin, associate professor of history, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by CREES. October 3, 2012. audio | video
WCEE Student Presentations on Summer Research and Internships. Jess Beck, CES summer grant, PhD Anthropology; Paulina Duda, CRIF, PhD Slavic; Julia Hlavac, Summer FLAS, BS REES/ Environment; William Lamping, CRIF, BA Political Science/Russian. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, CREES, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 2, 2012. audio | video
The Crisis of the Legal Profession in Contemporary Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by The Crisis of the Legal Profession in Contemporary Russia. assistant professor of law, Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki; visiting professor of law, U-M. Sponsored by CREES and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. September 19, 2012. audio | video
The Pussy Riot Affair: The Prank Heard ‘Round the World. Moderator: Olga Maiorova, CREES director. Presenters: Elena Gapova, associate professor of sociology, Western Michigan University, and European Humanities University; Holly Hughes, professor of art and design and professor of theatre and drama, U-M, and performance artist; Ekaterina Mishina, assistant professor of law, Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki, and visiting professor of law, U-M. Sponsored by CREES, University Library, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. September 12. 2012. video
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