Multimedia

Audio and/or video files of programs of WCEE affiliates are posted on webpages on the CES-EUC, CREES, and WCED websites, with files for selected events also noted below.

In addition, these programs are available as podcasts on University of Michigan iTunes U (click on International) or follow these links to specific "albums": CES-EUC, CREES, WCEE, WCED

2009-10

Kosovo from NATO’s Intervention to Independence: An Appraisal. Conversations on Europe/CREES lecture by Veton Surroi, journalist and politician. November 5, 2009. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. (audio )

Purity and Danger in Romania’s “Transitional Justice”: Purging Enemies through the Securitate Files. WCED lecture by Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center. October 22, 2009. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and Center for Russian and East European Studies. (audio  video)

Economic Crises as Transformative Events. WCED/EIHS lecture by William H. Sewell, Jr., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science, University of Chicago. October 15, 2009. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. (video)

Where are Europe's Borders? Conversations on Europe/WCED lecture by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005). Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and Center for Russian and East European Studies. October 8, 2009. (audio video) 

1989: A Twenty-Year Balance Sheet of that Annus Mirabilis. Conversations on Europe lecture by Andrei S. Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, U-M. September 17, 2009. (audio video) 

The Foreign Policy Agenda of the Obama Administration: The Practitioner's Perspective.
WCED/Ford School lecture by Ambassador Thomas J. Miller, U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2001) and Greece (2001-04); president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. Sponsored by University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Ford School of Public Policy, and International Policy Center; and the Huron Valley Chapter of the United Nations Association. September 10, 2009. (audio )

2008-09

The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization in Postcommunist Space. WCED colloquium with Steven Fish, professor, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and Center for Russian and East European Studies. April 2, 2009. (audio ) (details)

Challenges to Promoting Democracy from the Ground Up. WCED colloquium with Craig Calhoun, president, Social Science Research Council, and University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University; and Lorne Craner, president, International Republican Institute. WCED Colloquium sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 30, 2009. (audio posted on U-M iTunes U) (details)

Europe’s Political and Economic Challenges. Conversations on Europe Lecture by Jan Svejnar, director, International Policy Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center; Center for Russian and East European Studies; International Policy Center, Ford School of Public Policy; and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 25, 2009. (audio ) (interview in the LSA Wire)

Afghanistan--The Once and Future War. CREES Panel with David B. Edwards, W. Van Alan Clark '41 Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College; Alessandro Monsutti, 2008-09 postdoctoral fellow, Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, and social anthropologist, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and M. Nazif Shahrani, Chairman, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, professor of anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. March 12, 2009. (video posted on U-M iTunes U) (more info)

U.S. Diplomacy, Civil Society, and Democracy in the Middle East and Europe
Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., U.S. ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, 2005–08, and guest scholar, United States Institute of Peace; and Ambassador Ronald Weiser, U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, 2001-04. WCED Colloquium sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. February 12, 2009. (audio ) (details) (interview with Ambassadors Ricciardone and Weiser in the LSA Wire)

The World of the Roma: A Minority One and Many in the New Europe. CES-EUC End-of-Semester Luncheon.  Convener: Dario Gaggio, Director, CES-EUC and Associate Professor, History. Presenters: Alaina Lemon, Associate Professor, Anthropology; Jean Hébrard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Visiting Professor of History and LACS; and graduate students: Luciana Aenäsoaie, Elana Resnick, and Heather Tidrick. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and the Center for International and Comparative Studies. December 10, 2008. (audio ) 

Communicating the Meaning of the Marshall Plan. Conversations on Europe lecture by David W. Ellwood, associate professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. November 20, 2008. (audio )

"Consciously Made Children," "Living for Oneself," or "Giving Birth to a Patriot": Russia's Revival of Family Support and the Discursive Erasure of Gender Inequality. CREES Lecture by Michele Rivkin-Fish, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies. November 6, 2008. (audio )

Mediterranean Entrepreneurial Diaspora Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century. Conversations on Europe lecture by Gelina Harlaftis, associate professor, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center and the Modern Greek Program. October 30, 2008. (audio )

Coffee House Babble: Smoking and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Bulgaria. CREES Lecture by Mary Neuburger, associate professor, Department of History, University of Texas-Austin. Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. October 23, 2008. (audio )

Political Institutions of the EU. Conversations on Europe lecture by George Tsebelis, Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. October 16, 2008. (audio )

The French Presidency of the European Union. CES-EUC Luncheon lecture by Sidy Diallo, Deputy Consul General of France in Chicago. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies-European Union Center. October 15, 2008. (audio )

Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival: Liability or Advantage? WCED lecture by Michael Bernhard, professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies. October 8, 2008. (audio )

Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. WCEE/WCED inaugural lecture by Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005; and Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership, Georgetown University. Sponsored by the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; Center for European Studies-European Union Center; Center for Russian and East European Studies; and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.  September 19, 2008. (video posted on U-M iTunes U)

Looking into the "Black Holes" of Central Asian History: The Rise of Khoqand and Why it Matters. Lecture by Scott Levi, associate professor, Department of History, Ohio State University. Sponsored by CREES and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. September 4, 2008. (audio )

These files should not be copied or reproduced without the explicit permission of the Weiser Center. In addition, all references to the material in this archive must be properly attributed.