CREEES SPONSORED and CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
2008-2009

CREEES sponsors a variety of events which are open to the public. If you would like to receive information about these events by mail or email, please contact CREEES

 

CREEES/ICA International Film Festival presents:
JEWISH LUCK (Russia)

Introduced by Amelia Glaser
Assistant Professor, UCSD
Wed., August 13, 7:00 pm
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), room 113
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Roundtable Discussion on the Crisis in Georgia

Thursday, August 14, 1pm
Encina Hall
John Dunlop (CREEES, Hoover), moderator
Gail Lapidus (Political Science, FSI)
Norman Naimark (History, FSI, Hoover)
Michael McFaul (Political Science, FSI, Hoover)
David Holloway (Political Science, History, FSI)
Gregory Shvedov (CDDRL)
Eka Kemularia (CDDRL)
and others

CREEES/ICA International Film Festival presents:
KORYO SARAM: THE UNRELIABLE PEOPLE (US/Kazakhstan)

Introduced by Steven Lee
Acting Assistant Professor, UCB
Wed., August 20, 7:00 pm
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), room 113
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"Soft Power, the War of Ideas, and the Next U.S. President"

Jeff Gedmin, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.
Mon., Sept. 29, 3 pm
Encina Hall East 008
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The Eurasian Studies Working Group presents:

"A Mixed Blessing: Oil Wealth Management in Kazakhstan and Beyond"
Christine Jojarth (Social Science Research Associate, Freeman Spogli Institute).
Tues., Sept. 30, 12 noon
Encina West 208

The Ukrainian Studies Program presents:
"Where Ukraine is Headed: Transition to Europe"

Roy Gardner
Chancellor's Professor of Economics and West European
Studies, Indiana University; Kyiv School of Economics (Kyiv)
Thurs., Oct. 2, 12 noon
CISAC Conference Room, Encina Central (2nd fl) Read more >

Roundtable on Georgia, Russia, and the World

Norman Naimark (History, FSI, Hoover), moderator
Michael McFaul (Polical Science, CDDRL, FSI, Hoover)
Gail Lapidus (Political Science, CISAC, FSI)
John Dunlop (Hoover, CREEES)
John Moore (US Army, CREEES, CISAC)
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 12 noon
CISAC Conference Room, 2nd floor
Encina Hall Central

The Alexander Dallin Lecture in
Russian, East European & Eurasian Affairs
"The Unstable Politics of Russian Diarchy: Some Preliminary Thoughts"

Peter Reddaway
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and
International Affairs, George Washington University
Wed., Oct. 15, 4:15 pm
Fisher Auditorium, Arrillaga Alumni Center Read more >

The Eurasian Studies Working Group Presents
"The Enmity of Independency: Ethnic and National Identities in Mongolia"

Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren, Prof. of Cultural Anthropology, National
University of Mongolia; Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, 2008-09
Tues., Oct. 21, 12 noon
Encina W 208

"Imperial Legacy in the Collections of Holy Trinity Seminary, Jordanville, NY"

Vladimir von Tsurikov, Acting Dean, Director of Archives, Holy
Trinity Orthodox Seminary; Project Archivist, the Hoover Institution
Thurs., Oct. 23, 12 noon
Encina West 208 Read more >

The Stanford History Kruzhok and the Ukrainian Studies Program present:
"Discovering the Carpathians: Episodes in Imagining and Reshaping the Alpine
Boarderland Region," History research workshop

Patrice Dabrowski
Faculty Associate, Davis Center (Harvard)
Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard)
Monday, October 27, 4 pm
Encina W 208

The Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages presents:
"Wake-up Call: Gruenbein, Descartes, Pushkin"

Michael Eskin, Associate Professor of German
Columbia University
Wednesday, October 29, 4:30 pm
Pigott Hall (Building 260) room 113
(Co-sponsored by CREEES)

"Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews" opening reception.

Guided tour, 5:30 pm; welcome remarks, 6:15 pm.
Wed., Oct. 29, 5 -7 pm
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford University
565 Mayfield Ave.
Event information: 650-736-1199
(Co-sponsored by CREEES)

The 2008-09 Czech Film Festival presents:
TmavomodryL sv?t (Dark Blue World, 2001, dir. Jan Sv?raLk)

Film screening
Friday, November 7, 7 pm
Building 260 (Pigott Hall) room 113
Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Special Languages Program
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The Eurasian Studies Working Group presents:
"Magic, Genies and the Soviet Orient: The Story of the Old Khottabych"

Anaita Khudonazar, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, November 11, 12 noon
Encina W 208

The Ukrainian Studies Program and the Forum on Contemporary Europe present:
"Ukraine Again Mired in Political Turmoil"

Steven Pifer, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former US Ambassador to Ukraine
Wed., Nov. 12, 12 noon
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall C330 (3rd floor)
RSVP required click here >

In the Name of Their Mothers

the story of Irena Sendler with filmmaker Mary Skinner
Advanced screening, Wed., Nov. 12, 5- 7 pm
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford University
565 Mayfield Ave.
Event information: 650-736-1199
(Co-sponsored by CREEES)

CREEES seminars presents:
"History's Greatest Heist: The Bolshevik Looting of Russia"

Sean McMeekin, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent
University; Henry Chauncey '57 Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Thurs., Nov. 13, 12 noon
Encina W 208 Read more >

The Silk Road Lecture Series presents:
"The Yuezhi. Origin, Migration, and the Conquest of Bactria"

Craig Benjamin, Professor of History, Grand Valley State University
Thurs., Nov. 13, 7:30 pm
Math Corner, Main Quad
Building 380, room 380Y (downstairs)
(Co-sponsored by CREEES, CEAS, and the Silk Road Foundation)
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"Security and Energy in the Black Sea Region - a Romanian Perspective"

The Honorable Adrian Vierita, Ambassador of Romania to the US
Friday, November 14, 12 noon - 1:30 pm
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Encina Hall, 3rd floor, East Wing
Co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe
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The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law presents:
"Prospects for Independent Media in Putin's Russia,"

Research Seminar
Manana Aslamazyan, Executive Director at Internews Europe
Fri., Nov. 21, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Encina Hall Central, CISAC conference room, second floor
RSVP required click here >
Co-sponsored by CREEES

AAASS Stanford - Berkeley Reception

Stanford and UC Berkeley affiliates and alums are invited to the joint reception at the annual professional conference for Slavists and Eurasianists.
Friday, November 21, 2008, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Philadelphia, Downtown Marriott, Grand Ballroom C

CREEES and the Forum on Contemporary Europe present:
The Worst of Friends: The Many Layered Struggles of Germany's Eastern and Southeastern European Allies for Local Dominance and Ethnic Cleansing, 1938-1945

Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University
Mon., Dec. 1, 4 pm
Lane History Corner, Room 307
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CREEES and the Forum on Contemporary Europe present:
"Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution as Illustrated by the Incidents at Oradour in France, Via Rasella in Rome, and UjvideLk/Novi Sad in Hungary/Yugoslavia"

Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University
Tues., Dec. 2, 12 noon
Encina Hall East, E008
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"Songs and Melodies from Afghanistan: Melodic Instruments in Harmony"

Performance and Lecture with Shafiq Shamel (voice, harmonium) Toryalei Hashemi (tabla) and guest performer on robab.
Tues., Dec. 2, 6-8 pm
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall Central
Limited seating, online RSVP required click here >
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, and the US Department of Education (Title VI).

"Karski's Testimony -- Hoover Institution's Collection of his Papers"

Lecture presentation by Zbygniew Stanczyk, European Collection Specialist, Hoover Institution
Wed., Dec. 3, 5- 7 pm
Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center
Hillel at Stanford University
565 Mayfield Ave.
Event information: 650-736-1199
(Co-sponsored by CREEES)

The Forum on Contemporary Europe presents:
"Creating a New Europe: Finding Post-Soviet Pathways"

Stefan Hedlund
Professor of Soviet and East European Studies, Uppsala University
Thursday, December 4, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Okimoto Conference Room
Encina Hall, E307
audio transcript available
Co-sponsored by CREEES.

Stanford Lectures on Ukraine 2008-09

February 19 | May 18
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"Three Unknown Soviet Writers"

Slavic Department seminar
Marietta Chudakova, Professor of Literature
Moscow Literary Institute
Friday, January 9
Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Hoover Institution

CREEES seminars presents:

"Death or Rebirth of Liberalism in Russia"

Marietta Chudakova
( M. Chudakova was a member of Yeltsin's Presidential
Council, on the short list for the 2007 Duma elections.
She is one of the organizing committee members for the
new Pravoe delo party.)
Tues., Jan. 13
Co-sponsored by the Hoover Institution

The Silk Road Lecture Series presents:

"Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul"

Public lecture on the exhibit at the SF Asian Art Museum
Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist with the National Geographic Society
Tues., Jan. 13
Co-sponsored by CREEES, CEAS, and the Silk Road Foundation

The Stanford Ukrainian Studies Program presents:

UKRAINIAN CINEMA NOW

a mini-festival on the Stanford campus, January 15-16, 2009 with Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, Director of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University
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The CREEES "Sounds of Eurasia" series presents:

An Evening with Kitka and Kedry

Slavic Folk Singing and Dance
8 pm, Wed., Jan. 21

The Eurasian Studies Working Group presents:

"The Global Art Lab: an Exchange of Ideas through Social Practice Art Projects in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan"

Gordon Knox, Stanford Humanities Lab
12 noon, Fri., Jan. 30

The Forum on Contemporary Europe presents:

"Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: Can Scholars Make a Difference"

Charles Igrao, Professor of History, Purdue University
12 noon, Feb. 2
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The CREEES "Sounds of Eurasia" series presents:

An Evening with the Bukharan Jewish Folk Ensemble "Hai, Nozanin"

7 pm, Thurs., Feb. 12, Bechtel Conference Center (Encina Hall Central)
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies and SiCa

The Stanford Lectures on Ukraine:

"Crimean Chersonesos: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Politics"

Joseph Coleman Carter, Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology
University of Texas, Austin
5 pm, Thurs., Feb. 19, Archaeology Center Seminar Room (Bld 500)
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Archaeology Center

CREEES seminars presents:
THIS TALK WILL BE CONDUCTED ENTIRELY IN RUSSIAN WITH NO TRANSLATION

"A Trap: What Temptations Did Stalin Offer Polish Writers?"

Piotr Mitzner, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw)
Mon., Feb. 23, 12 noon, Encina W 208

The Eurasian Studies Working Group presents:

"Collective Action in Kyrgyzstan Before and After the Independence"

Jamilya Ukudeeva, Political Science Department, Cabrillo College
4:15 p.m., Tues., Feb. 24, Encina West 208

The Silk Road Lecture Series presents:

"Patterns of Political Mobilization in Kyrgyzstan"

Jamilya Ukudeeva, Cabrillo College
Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 pm, Building 260 (Pigott Hall) room 113
Event Information

CREEES and the Slavic Department present:
THIS TALK WILL BE CONDUCTED ENTIRELY IN RUSSIAN WITH NO TRANSLATION

"Cogs and Rebels: The Destinies of Polish Futurist Poets: Aleksandr Wat and Bruno Jesienski"

Piotr Mitzner, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw)
Mon., March 2, 11 am, Bldg. 260, room 311A
Co-sponsored by the DLCL, the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the Slavic Department

The gSounds of Eurasiah series presents:
An Evening of the Traditional Mugham and Folk Dance Music of Azerbaijan
Master Rahman Assadollahi
Wed., March 4, 7:30 pm
Location Campbell Recital Hall
Co-sponsored by SiCa
Free and open to the public
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CREEES seminars presents:

"Youth Movements in Serbia and Belarus: From Otpor to Zubr"

Olena Nikolayenko, Visiting Scholar, CDDRL
Mon., March 9, 12 noon
Encina W 208
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CREEES seminars presents:

"Contemporary Architecture in St. Petersburg: The Clash Between Old Tradition and New Development"

Grigory Kaganov, Professor of Art History, European University (St. Petersburg)
Tues., March 10 at 4 pm
Cummings Art Building Room 2
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Architectural Design Program, and Program on Urban Studies
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Stanford Lectures on Ukraine presents:

From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II

Karl Qualls, Associate Prof of History, Dickinson College
Thursday, March 12th at 5:15pm
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Building
Co-sponsored by the Program on Urban Studies
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Self-Determination in Central Asian Cinema of the 1960s and 1990s
Winter - Spring 2009

Film screenings with Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Every other Tuesday at 7 pm in Bld 260, room 113
Begins Jan. 13, 2009
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The Stanford Hungarian Film Series

Selected Fridays, Jan 23 - May 29. 5:30 pm, Bld 260 (Pigott Hall) room 113
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Special Languages Program,
and the Stanford Hungarian Table
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Stanford Lectures on Ukraine presents:

"Historical Memory and the Second World War in Ukraine"

David Marples, Director, Stasiuk Program for the Study of Contemporary Ukraine, University of Alberta (Canada)
Thursday, April 2nd at 5:15pm
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33rd Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference in Slavic and East European Studies

1989: Twenty Years Later

Full program available online
Friday, April 3rd, 9:30 am-5:00 pm
Full-day conference, free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley, and Title VI (US Dept of Ed).

CREEES Eurasian Film Series

Aksuat (Kazakhstan, 1997, dir. Serik Aprymov)

Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Tuesday, April 7th, 7:00-9:00 pm
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Co-sponsored by the Special Languages Program

CREEES Seminar

1989 - The Year that Changed the Map of Europe and then the World

The Hon. Ambassador Bokor BalaLzs, Consul General of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles
Wednesday, April 8th, 4:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

Forum on Contemporary Europe
A Lecture Series by Aivars Stranga, Professor and Chair, Dept. of History, University of Latvia

Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Latvia: New Trends in Scholarship

Monday, April 13th, 3:30-5:00 pm
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Latvia and Russia: Battles Around History

Wednesday April 15th, 4:30-6:00 pm
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The Forum on Contemporary Europe

Ukraine's Challenges, the West's Response"

Steven Pifer
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000)
Thursday, April 16th
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Ukrainian Studies Program

Latvia in Crisis: Where is a Way Out of It?

Friday, April 17th, 12:00-1:00 pm
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Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Department of History, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Stanford Hungarian Film Series

Megall az ido / Time Stands Still
(1981, dir. Peter Gothar, 103 mins.)

Introduction and commentary by Eva Szoke (Lecturer of Hungarian) and MaLrton Dornbach (Assistant Professor of German Studies)
Friday, April 17th, 5:30 pm
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Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Special Languages Program

Silk Road Lecture Series

Between Dystopia and Utopia: Reading the Minaret of Jam

Finbarr Barry Flood, Associate Professor of Art History & Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Friday, April 17th, 7:30 pm
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Co-sponsored by CREEES, CEAS, the Silk Road Foundation, and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

CREEES Eurasian Film Series

Beshkempir / The Adopted Son (Kyrgyzstan, 1998, dir. Aktan Abdykalykov)

Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Tuesday, April 21st, 7:00-9:00 pm
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Co-sponsored by the Special Languages Program

The Forum on Contemporary Europe

"Life Stories of Lithuanian Women 1945-1970: Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality"

Dalia Marcinkeviciene
Chair, Women's Studies Department and Lecturer in History, Vilnius University
Thurs., April 23 at 12 noon
More information>

Stanford Lectures on Ukraine

The Interplay of Ukrainian & Russian in Contemporary Ukrainian Media

Alla Nedashkivska, Assoc. Professor of Slavic Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta (Canada)
Thursday, April 23rd, 5:15-6:15 pm
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CREEES Seminar

Russian Art and Politics: The Hermitage Museum and the Presidentfs Konstantinovsky Palace

Dmitry Lyubin, Head of Department of the Konstantinovsky Palace Museum, State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); Fulbright Scholar, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress
Tuesday, April 28th, 5:30 pm
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Eurasian Studies Working Group

Odessa as a Center of the Muslim World in the Nineteenth Century

Eileen Kane, Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College
Thursday, April 30th, 4 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of History
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Christensen Fund Distinguished Lecture

Anri Sala's "Long Sorrow"

Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Professor of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 30, 5:30 pm
Sponsored by the Dept of Art and Art History
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CREEES Seminar

Elections in Moldova, Human Rights, and the 'Twitter Revolution'

Roundtable discussion
Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Laura Cosovanu, Research Affiliate, Program on Global Justice,
Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (FSI)
Friday, May 1st, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe

Stanford Hungarian Film Series

KoNrhinta / Merry-Go-Round (1955, dir. Zoltan Fabri, 101 mins.)

Introduction and commentary by Eva Szoke (Lecturer of Hungarian) and Marton Dornbach (Assistant Professor of German Studies)
Friday, May 1st, 5:30 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, Room 113
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Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Special Languages Program

Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts

Byzantium in Rome: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata

Cappella Romana Vocal Ensemble
Sunday, May 3rd, 7:00 pm
Memorial Church

Pre-concert Lecture:

Medieval Byzantine Chant: An Icon in Sound?

Dr. Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director, Cappella Romana and Senior Lecturer in Music, City University, London
Sunday, May 3rd, 4:00 pm
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Medieval Studies Program, the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center

CREEES Seminar

Soviet Jewish Officersf Encounters with Germany, 1945

Oleg Budnitski, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Monday, May 4th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies

CREEES Eurasian Film Series

The Orator / Voiz (Uzbekistan, 1998, dir. Yasup Razykov)

Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Tuesday, May 5th, 7:00-9:00 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, Room 113
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Co-sponsored by the Special Languages Program

Stanford Lectures on Ukraine

The Enigma of the Great Famine of 1932-33

Hiroaki Kuromiya, Professor of History, Indiana University
Thursday, May 7th, 5:15-6:15 pm
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Building

CREEES Seminar

Chronic Russophobia in Poland? Comparing Elite and Citizen Attitudes

Raymond Taras, Professor of Political Science and Director of the World Literature Program,Tulane University
Monday, May 11th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208

Eurasian Studies Working Group

Mongolian Art and Policy: Socialist Past and Present

Tsultemin Enkhjin, Chairman of the Union of Mongolian Artists
Thursday, May 14th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208

"The Poetics of Peat and the Ecology of the Soviet Imaginary"

Robert Bird, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, The University of Chicago
4:15 pm, Thursday, May 14
Slavic Department Library (Building 240 room 111)
Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Stanford Lectures on Ukraine

Language Policy in Ukraine: What People Want the State to Do

Volodymyr Kulyk, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow
Monday, May 18th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall East, Room 008 (Ground floor)
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Co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

Stanford Archeology Center

Politics of Memory | The Reconstruction of a Crime: XY-Ungelost, Container, Srbrenica

Milica Tomic, visual artist, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies/Multimedia Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
Monday, May 18th, 5:00 pm
Archaeology Center Conference Room, Building 500
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Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the Department of Art and Art History

CREEES Eurasian Film Series

Kosh Ba Kosh / Odds and Evens (Kyrgyzstan, 1998, dir. Aktan Abdykalykov)

Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Tuesday, May 19th, 7:00-9:00 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, Room 113
Read more>
Co-sponsored by the Special Languages Program

CREEES Seminar

"Azerbaijan's Geostrategic Role in the South Caucasus-Caspian Basin"

Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev, Director of Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Wednesday, May 20th, 12:00 pm
Encina West 208
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Sounds of Eurasiah Performance Series

Songs from the Kazakh Steppes

Elmira Zhanabergenova and Saltanat Yersultan, Kazakh epic folk singers
Wednesday, May 20th, 7:00 pm
Limited seating, doors open at 6:30 pm
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center
Co-sponsored by SiCa and Title VI (US Dept of Ed)
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Forum on Contemporary Europe

"From Hegemony to Demise: The Politics of Lustration and the Crisis of the Church in Post-Communist Poland"

Mikolaj Kunicki, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, May 21, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall East, Room 008 (Ground floor)
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Co-sponsored by CREEES

Silk Road Lecture Series

Cotton and Silk, Coral and Carnelian: Costume and Ornament of Turkestan

Anita Hadbank-Kolaczkowska, Board Director of the Silk Road Foundation and the Silk Road House (Berkeley)
Thursday, May 21st, 7:30 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, Room 113
Co-sponsored by CREEES, CEAS, and the Silk Road Foundation.
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Eurasian Studies Working Group

"A Critique of the Community Self-Management Organization Mahalla and its Complicity in Government Repression in Uzbekistan"

Nozima Kamalova, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS) fellow;
Director of the Public Defense Office of the Tashkent Board of Lawyers;
Founding Chair of the Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan
Tuesday, May 26th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
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Stanford Drama Department

A special presentation by the St. Petersburg-based performance group AKHE

Wednesday, May 27th, 3:30 pm
Piggott Theater
Co-sponsored by CREEES

Eurasian Studies Working Group

Comparing Regimes of Colonial Knowledge in Afghanistan, 1809-2009

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Assft. Professor of History, James Madison University
Thursday, May 28th, 4:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Co-sponsored by the Department of History
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Stanford Hungarian Film Series

A tanu / The Witness (1968, dir. Peter Bacso, 110 mins.)

Introduction and commentary by Eva Szoke (Lecturer of Hungarian) and MaLrton Dornbach (Assistant Professor of German Studies)
Friday, May 29th, 5:30 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, Room 113
Read more>
Co-sponsored by CREEES and the Special Languages Program

CREEES Seminar

Russia, Culture, and Leadership: Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Managerial Values and Practices

Mikhail Grachev, Professor of Management, Western Illinois University and Adjunct Professor of Management & Organizations, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, The University of Iowa
Tuesday, June 2nd, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Co-sponsored by the Global Management Program, Graduate School of Business

CREEES Eurasian Film Series

Little Angel, Make Me Happy (Turkmenistan, 1992, dir. Usman Saparov)

Introduction and commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva (Anthropology)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 7:00-9:00 pm
Language Corner, Building 260, room 113
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Co-sponsored by the Special Languages Program

Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

"The Political Effects on Russia of the Global Financial Crisis"

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Deputy Director, Senior Research Scholar at CDDRL
Tuesday, June 9th, 12:00 pm
Encina Hall East 008 (Ground Floor)
Co-sponsored by CREEES.
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"Energy Security, Memory Wars and "Compatriots" in Baltic-Russian Relations

Nils Muiznieks
Director, Advanced Social and Political Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia
Thursday, June 11th
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Encina Hall, E008
Ground Floor Conference Room
Sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

"Energy Developments and Geopolitics in the Caspian Region: Perspectives from Azerbaijan"

Fariz Ismailzade, Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Azerbaijan
Elin Suleymanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan to the U.S., Los Angeles
Thursday, August 6th 12:00 Noon
Co-sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Global Megacities: Summer 2009 International Film Festival

Taxi Blues (Taksi Blius, Soviet Union, 1990)
Introduction by Tom Roberts, Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, August 12, 7pm
Building 200 (Lane History Corner), Room 002