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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 sign up for our mailing list.

2004 November Events
Resonant Dissonance: The Russian Joke in Cultural Context
Seth Graham
Humanities Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 5 :00 pm
Building 200 Room 30
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures & CREEES
The Development of National Identity in Tatarstan
Gulnara Khasanova
Radio Free Europe Tatar- Bashkir Service, Tatarstan; Osher Fellow Hoover Institution
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Sponsored by the Hoover Institution & CREEES
How to Be Your Own Censor: The Media in Putin's Russia
Masha Gessen
Special Correspondent. The New Republic;
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Bolshoi Gorod, Moscow
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:15 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Nuclear Reactions: Conflicting Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Cynthia Werner
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas A & M University
Monday, November 15, 2004 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Out from Under the Curtain ­ A Central Asian, Caucasian, and Balkan Film Series presents:
“Laibach: Victory Under the Sun”
Goran Gaijic
Director, Yugoslavia, 1988
Monday, November 1, 2004 7:00 pm
“Repentance”
Tengiz Abuladze
Director, Georgia, 1984
Monday, November 15, 6:00 pm
“The Needle”
Rashid Nugmanov
Director, Kazakhstan, 1988
Monday, November 29, 2004 7:00 pm

All films screened in Building 200 Room 002
Sponsored by CREEES
Leo Tolstoy and the Family Novel
Anne Hruska
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University
Tuesday, November 16 4:45 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures & CREEES
A New Beginning? What the United States Can Do with Europe Now
Timothy Garton
St. Antony's College, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University;
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Tuesday, November 16, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Oak Lounge, Tresidder Memorial Union
Sponsored by the European Forum and Stanford Institute for International Studies
ContactTamara Danoyan with any questions about this event
Individual Perspectives on Political Transformation Processes in Former Yugoslavia: From 'Paradise' to War
Doris Goedl
Institute for Social Research and Development, Salzburg
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:00 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Co-sponsored by Santa Clara University & CREEES
Mikhail Lomonosov: Early Enlightenment, Church and Religion
Joachim Klein
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:15 pm
Building 40 Room 41J
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures & CREEES
Lecture and Film
Out from Under the Curtain ­ A Central Asian, Caucasian, and Balkan Film Series presents:
Spatial and Temporal Crossroads in Kazakh New Wave Cinema
Gulnara Abikeyeva
Culture Editor, Megapolis Newspaper, Almaty, Kazakhstan
6:00 pm

followed by a screening of
“The Needle”
Directed by Rashid Nugmanov, 1988 Kazakhstan (USSR), 81 minutes, in Russian with English subtitles
7:00 pm

Monday, November 29, 2004
Both events will take place in Building 200 Room 002
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program