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Welcome
Welcome to the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies promotes scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies facilitating historical, contemporary, and prospective transformations from authoritarian rule to democracies with more robust economies and vital civil societies. It also educates new generations of practitioners who can apply their learning and experience to help extend freedom. Initially focusing on transitions in Europe and Eurasia, it will subsequently expand its scope to other emerging democracies across the globe.
Inaugurated in 2008, WCED works alongside the Center for European Studies-European Union Center and Center for Russian and East European Studies and in association with the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
Announcements
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
WCEE/WCED 2009-2010 Directors' Council announced
WCED and other WCEE affiliates issue 2008-09 Annual Report
Spring 2009 issue of the Journal of the International Institute addresses democracy
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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 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”
December 10, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB
Multimedia
WCED programs are available in audio and/or video format in the WCED 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)
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)
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. (video)


