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, .
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Spring 2006 Lectures
"The Paradoxes of Mickiewicz"Roman Koropeckyj, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at UCLA.
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"National Cleansing: Retrobution against Nazi Collaborators in post-war Czechoslovakia"Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University Due to technical limitations, this recording does not contain the final minute or two of the lecture or the question and answer session following. |
"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. |
"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).
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"Turkey's Relations with Italy in the Interwar Period"Dilek Barlas, Professor of History at the University of Chicago. |
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. |
"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. |
"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" |
"Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism under Czarist Rule"Thomas C. Owen, Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. |
"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. |
"Sex Trafficking in Russia: a Preliminary Investigation"Lauren McCarthy, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. |
"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. |
Poetry Reading
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"Ideology or Protest: Voting Behavior in Post-communist Eastern Europe"Grigore Pop-Eleches, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University |
"Safrut and the Zionist Engagement with Russian Culture, 1916-1918"Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Chair Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Tulane University |
"Balkan Connections Through Music"Michael Kuharski, Artistic Director of Narodno! International Dancers |
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.
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"A Briefing on Kyrgyzstan"
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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"
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"Minorities in the Wars of Yugoslav Succession: A Modest Silver Lining?"
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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 click to view video click to hear audio only |
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"Ukrainian Presidential Elections"
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Fall 2004 Lectures
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"Concept of Good and Evil in Politics"
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"Muslims: Don't Remain Unenlightened: Jadid Reformism and Education in the Soviet Uzbekistan"
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"Businessman-Candidates"
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"Publichnoe Povedenie Pushkina" Igor Nemirovsky November 30, 2004 click to hear audio only |
"An American in Belarus" |
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"Russian Legal Reform: Progress or Backslide?" |
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"Contestation and Corruption: The Impact of Political Competition in the Post-Soviet State" |
"Managed Democracy, the Constitution, and Freedom of the Press in Putin's Russia" |
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"Teach in on Chechnya"
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"Power and Media in Modern Russia: A Story of Love and Hate"
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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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