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CREECA Online Lectures
The following lectures were sponsored by CREECA. To listen to the lectures you will need to download either the free Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, .
Spring 2006 Lectures | Fall 2005 lectures | Spring 2005 Lectures | Fall 2004 Lectures |
Archive
Spring 2006 Lectures
"The Paradoxes of Mickiewicz" Roman Koropeckyj, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at UCLA. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"National Cleansing: Retrobution against Nazi Collaborators in post-war Czechoslovakia" Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"The Politics of a Name in the Northern Caucasus: The Alan Controversy" Victor Shnirelman, Fellow at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Researching Marginal Peoples on the Margins of Putin's Empire: An Ethnographic Reflection on Post-Soviet Life in Chukotka" Patty Gray, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UW Ph.D. 1998). Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Turkey's Relations with Italy in the Interwar Period" Dilek Barlas, Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
Fall 2005 Lectures
"Learning to Market Fruits and Vegetables in Kyrgyzstan: A Look at Private Contracting Practices" Kelley Cormier, PhD Candidate in Development Studies at UW-Madison. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Architecture, Social History, and State Policy: The Abu Nasr Parsa Tomb at Balkh and the Gur-i Amir in Samarqand" Robert McChesney,
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Training Political Reporters in Kazakhstan: a View from the Field" Jerry Huffman, Communications Director of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism and former anchor if WPT's "Weekend" Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism under Czarist Rule" Thomas C. Owen,
Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Judicial Politics in Putin's Russia: An Informal Dimension" Alexei Trochev, Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queens University in Ontario. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Sex Trafficking in Russia: a Preliminary Investigation" Lauren McCarthy, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Law, Public Policy, and Black Holes in Russia" William B. Simons, Professor of East European Law at the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies, University of Leiden. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
Poetry Reading Sergey Gandlevsky and Philip Metres Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Ideology or Protest: Voting Behavior in Post-communist Eastern Europe" Grigore Pop-Eleches, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Safrut and the Zionist Engagement with Russian Culture, 1916-1918" Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Chair Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Tulane University Audio only: Windows Media Player |
"Balkan Connections Through Music" Michael Kuharski, Artistic Director of Narodno! International Dancers Audio only: Windows Media Player |
Check our events calendar to see what lectures have been completed or are coming up. This page will be updated with recordings after a short period of time following each lecture.
Spring 2005 Lectures
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"A Briefing on Kyrgyzstan" To see a list of online resources on this topic, click here. Audio only: Windows
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MIRACLE "A Conversation with Mark Johnson" Mark Johnson with interviewer David McDonald March 10, 2005 "Sport as a Cold War Battleground: The Soviey Hockey Machine" Lecture by Robert Edelman, Responses: Al Senn and David McDonald March 11, 2005 |
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"The History of Azerbaijani
Art" Prof. Timurchin Afandiyev, Rector of the Azerbaijan State University of Fine Arts in Baku March 11, 2005 Audio only: Windows Media Player |
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"Minorities in the Wars of Yugoslav Succession:
A Modest Silver Lining?" Gale Stokes, Mary Gibbs Jones Prof. of History, Rice University March 8, 2005 Audio only: Windows Media Player |
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"The American Photography of Ilya Ilf" The exhibit "Soviet Writers, American Images: Il'f and Petrov Tour the United States, 1935-1936" which ran at the University of Michigan in February 2005, as well as the texts of the accompanying lectures, can now be viewed on-line at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/Ilf_Petrov/ |
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"Invoking the Past to Justify
Present Ideologies and Politics: Worldviews and Terrorisms in Uzbekistan" Elyor Karima, Fulbright Scholar, Historian of Medieval Islam in Central Asia February 25, 2005 Video : Windows Media Player Audio only: Windows Media Player |
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"Ukrainian Presidential Elections" To see a list of online resources on this topic, click here. Audio only: Windows Media Player |
Fall 2004 Lectures
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"Concept of
Good and Evil in Politics" Video: Windows
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"Muslims:
Don't Remain Unenlightened: Jadid Reformism and Education in the
Soviet Uzbekistan" Video: Windows
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"Businessman-Candidates" Video: Windows
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"Publichnoe
Povedenie Pushkina" |
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"An American
in Belarus"
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"Russian Legal Reform: Progress
or Backslide?" Video: Windows
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"Contestation and Corruption:
The Impact of Political Competition in the Post-Soviet State"
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"Managed Democracy, the Constitution,
and Freedom of the Press in Putin's Russia" Video/Audio: Windows
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"Teach in on Chechnya" Video/Audio: Windows Media Player |
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"Power and Media in Modern Russia: A Story
of Love and Hate" Video/Audio: Windows Media Player |
Archive of Lectures from Past Semesters
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Spring 2002
Fall 2001
Spring 2001
Fall 2000
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