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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
CFP: Polish Studies in the 21st Century, deadline January 15, 2010
Nines Conference at University of Michigan, Dec 3-5
Veton Surroi, journalist and activist, to speak about Kosovo War
U-M Professor to Erect Inflatable Monument to the Romanian Revolution in Ann Arbor and Romania
Student Information
See the CREES announcement blog for CFPs, job and funding postings, events, and more.
Upcoming Events
November 24, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Film. Song from the Southern Seas.
December 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
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”
Multimedia
CREES programs are available in audio and/or video format in the CREES section of U-M's iTunes U.
Kosovo from NATO’s Intervention to Independence: An Appraisal. Conversations on Europe/CREES lecture by Veton Surroi, journalist and politician. November 5, 2009. (audio)
Four Angles of Vision on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Germans, ‘Collaborators,’ Jews, and the Soviet Government. CREES Brown Bag lecture by Zvi Gitelman, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of political science, U-M. November 4, 2009. (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, CUNY Graduate Center. October 22, 2009. (audio video)



