4/7 Monday
4:15 p.m., SIEPR Conference Room A, Landau Economics Building
CREEES Lecture Series "Ukraine: Emerging Nation"
"Ukraine: Geo-political Challenge for the 21st Century"
The Honorable Yuri Scherbak
Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada

4/9 Wednesday
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and CREEES present:
5:30 - 6:30 p.m., Bldg. 200, Rm.202
"Was Stalin Even More Diabolical Than We Thought?"
Donald Rayfield
University of London

4/10 Thursday
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and CREEES present:
12 noon- 1 p.m., Bldg. 160, Rm. 322
"Vyacheslav Menzhinsky: Poet, Clown, and Mass Murderer"
Donald Rayfield
University of London

4:15 p.m., Bldg 40, Rm 41J
"Post-communist Transformation and the European Union"
Ivan Berend
Professor of History, UCLA.

4/16 Wednesday
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and CREEES present:
4:15 - 5:30 p.m., Bldg 40
"The Poem Unchained Voice as a Blueprint of Boris Pasternak's Poetics"
Alexander Zholkovsky
University of Southern California

4/17 Thursday
4:15 p.m., Bldg. 40, Rm. 41J
CREEES Lecture Series on Contemporary Central Asia:
"The Kazakhs and Islam: The Legacy of Soviet and Sovietological Interpretations of Religion"
Devin Deweese
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, and Director, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University

4/21 Monday
4:15 p.m., Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building
CREEES Lecture Series "Ukraine: Emerging Nation"
"The Politics of Language in Ukrainian Popular Culture"
Laada Bilaniuk
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington

4/22 Tuesday
5:00 p.m. , Bldg. 40, Rm. 41J
"Clinical Research in Russia: Past, Present and Future"
Sergei Varshavsky
Chairman and CEO, EVIDENCE Clinical and Pharmaceutical Research

4/28 Monday
12 noon, Bldg. 40, Rm. 41J
"The Republic of Georgia: Pipelines and Geopolitics"
David Onoprishvili
Center for Economic and Political Development Studies, Tbilis, Georgia;
Former Minister of Finance of Georgia

4/29 Tuesday
1:30 p.m., Bldg. 40, Rm. 41J
"The Role of the UN in Maintaining Peace & Security"
Jan Kavan
President, United Nations General Assembly;
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

4/30 Wednesday
5:30 - 6:30 p.m., Location: TBA
"Negative Experience and "The Void in a History" -Discourses on Holocaust and Gulag: Elie Wiesel and Varlam Shalamov"
Zaza Shatirishvili
Georgian University, Tbilisi

Co-sponsored by department of Slavic Languages and Literatures