Welcome to the media archive of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. WCED programs are also available as podcasts in the WCED section of University of Michigan iTunes U and on WCED's YouTube channel.
2012-13 | Archive
Acting Like a State. WCED Lecture by James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University. Sponsor: WCED. April 2, 2013. video
Fiscal Policy and Growth: Implications for the Euro Area. Conversations on Europe/WCED Lecture with Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Sponsors: CES, WCED. March 28, 2013. video
Getting Georgia Right: The Former Soviet Union’s Most Unexpected Country. WCED Lecture by Thomas de Waal, senior associate, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sponsors: WCED, CREES. Mar 19, 2013. video
De-democratization in Romania? Assessing the Turbulent Year 2012. WCED Lecture by Vladimir Tismaneanu, professor of comparative politics, University of Maryland. Sponsors: WCED, CES, CREES. Mar 12, 2013. video
Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Political Legacies of the Waqf. WCED Lecture by Timur Kuran, Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies and professor of economics and political science, Duke University. Sponsors: WCED, CMENAS. Feb 19, 2013. video
After the Revolution: The Varied Fates of Former Oppositions in Transitions to Democracy. WCED Lecture by Kharis Templeman (PhD Political Science ‘12), WCED Research Fellow, U-M. Sponsor: WCED. Feb 5, 2013. video
Patronage, Politics, and Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon. WCED Lecture by Melani Cammett, associate professor of political science, Brown University. Sponsored by WCED and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. December 4, 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 the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; University Library; and WCED. November 19, 2012. 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 the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Rackham Graduate College; and WCED. October 31, 2012. audio | video
It’s the Politics, Stupid: Explaining the Eurocrisis. WCED lecture by Kathleen McNamara, associate professor of government and foreign service and director, Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University. Sponsored by WCED and the Center for European Studies. November 5, 2012. 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 WCED and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. October 25, 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 the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for International and Comparative Studies; University Library; and WCED. October 17, 2012. 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; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and WCED. October 2, 2012. audio | video
How Fragile Is the Euro? Conversations on Europe lecture by William James Adams, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of economics, U-M. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and WCED. September 20, 2012. video
The Crisis of the Legal Profession in Contemporary Russia. CREES Noon Lecture by Ekaterina Mishina, assistant professor of law, Vysshaia shkola ekonomiki; visiting professor of law, U-M. Sponsored by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and WCED. 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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