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It's official. CREEES professor and MA alumnus Michael McFaul confirmed as next U.S. Ambassador to Russia. |
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Fri., 1/20 at 12:00 pm:
CREEES Friday Seminar
"What is Private, What is Public?: Community Recreational Assets and National Heritage Sites in Post-Soviet Russia"
David Ransel, Professor of History, Indiana University, CREEES Visiting Scholar
Encina Hall West, room 208
RSVP required by 1/17
Fri., 2/3 at 7:00 pm:
CREEES Concert
"Vysotsky in English"
Vadim Astrakhan, singer/guitarist/translator
Encina Hall Central, Bechtel Conference Center
Wed., 2/15 at 7:00 pm:
CREEES Int'l Film Series
Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
(USA, 2009, 84 mins.) followed by Q&A with director Ian Olds
Cubberley Auditorium
Co-sponsored by SiCa, Ethics and War Series
Wed., 2/22 at 5:15 pm:
CREEES Seminar
"Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey through Afghanistan"
Fariba Nawa, author and journalist
Encina Hall West, room 208
RSVP required by 2/17
Mon., 2/27 at 12:00 pm:
CREEES Seminar
"Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story"
Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow
Encina Hall West, room 208
RSVP required by 2/22
Fri., 3/2 all day:
CREEES Conference
"From Prague Spring to Arab Spring: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Protest and Revolution, 1968-2012"
Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Venue TBD (Stanford)
Mon., 3/5 at 12:00 pm:
CREEES Seminar
"Central Asia: New Great Game or No Game at All?"
John Ordway, former U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan
Encina Hall West, room 208
RSVP required by 2/29
CREEES Co-sponsored Events
Wed., 2/8 at 5:00 pm:
Europe Center roundtable
"Population Exchanges in the Modern Era"
Matthew Frank (University of Leeds), Catherine Goussef (CNRS)
Moderated by Norman Naimark and Amir Weiner (Stanford)
Co-sponsored by the Europe Center
Thu., 2/9 at 6:00 pm:
Abbasi Program roundtable
"Discussion Session with the Alim Qasimov Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet"
Moderated by Anna Schultz, Stanford
Co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford Lively Arts, and the Stanford Humanities Center
Mon., 2/27 at 4:15 pm:
Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshops
"How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul"
Cemal Kafadar, Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by Dept. of History, Mediterranean Studies Forum
Mon., 4/16 at 4:15 pm:
Byzantine and Ottoman Worlds Workshops
"From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa"
David Sebouh Aslanian, Modern Armenian History, UCLA
Co-sponsored by Dept. of History, Mediterranean Studies Forum
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