CREECA Online Lectures

The following lectures were sponsored by CREECA. To listen to the lectures you will need to download either the free RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player.

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Spring 2001 Lectures

"Juries and the Reform of Inquisitorial Justice: Russia's New Jury Law in
Comparative Perspective"

Stephen Thaman
Professor of Law
St. Louis University
April 30, 2001
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"The Making of an Underclass in Transitional Societies: The Roma Ghetto-Poor in Central Europe"
Ivan Szelenyi
Professor of Sociology
Yale University
April 27, 2001
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"The Sudeten Question in Czechoslovakia, 1930-8: A Reappraisal"
Mark Cornwall
Professor of History
University of Dundee
University of Toronto
April 23, 2001
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"The Balkans after Milosevic"
Jacques Rupnik
Director of Research at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris
April 12, 2001
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"The Return of Europe: the Countries of East-Central Europe
and their Journey to the EU"

Jacques Rupnik
Director of Research at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris
April 11, 2001
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“Rewriting the Red Calendar: Holidays for a New Russia”
Kelly Smith
Visiting Professor of Government
Georgetown University
April 6, 2001
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"Diversity of Poetical Monotone -- A Poetry Reading"
(Mayakovsky, Severjanin, Pasternak, Sasha Chernyj, Vosnesenskij, Brodsky,
Vyssotsky, Erdman, Okudzhava).
Veniamin Smekhov
April 5, 2001
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"New Russia: Sex and Television"
Yelena Khanga
Host of the most controversial and popular television
show in Russia "About It."
April 3, 2001
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“Mass Support for Ethnonationalism in Russia: A Reappraisal”
Donna Bahry
Professor of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
March 26, 2001
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“For Each Enemy, Another Trial: Scripting Confession in the Stalinist Show Trials”
Julie Cassiday
Assistant Professor of Russian
Williams College
March 21, 2001
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“The Place of Place in Democratic Transition”
Valerie Bunce
Professor of Government
Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Global Studies Program
March 9, 2001

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“Remembering Without Commemoration: East European Roma and the Romani Holocaust”
Michael Stewart
Senior Lecturer of Anthropology
University College, London
March 1, 2001

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“The Evolution of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in Russian Film from Perestroika to Putin”
Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
UW-Madison
February 28, 2001
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