2007-08 Public Events
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
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies Presents:
"How the War in Afghanistan Was Lost"
Professor Gilles Dorronsoro
Political Science, Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne
Author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present.
Monday, September 24, 2007 5:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
"Do Autocracies Perform Better than Democracies? Evidence from Russia under Yeltsin and Putin"
Michael A. McFaul
Director at CDDRL and
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Associate Director of Research at CDDRL
October 9, 2007 12:00 PM
CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
RSVP required audrey.mcgowan@stanford.edu
Sponsored by CDDRL and CREEES
“Choices People Make in Wartime: The War in Bosnia and Its Aftermath”
Dr. Svetlana BrozCardiologist, Author and Lecturer
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:15 pm
CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
"Russia After Putin"
Lilia Shevtsova
Researcher at Carnegie Center Moscow
October 17, 2007 12:00 PM
CISAC Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
International Symposium
"The Life of Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago”: Culture and the Cold War"
Friday, October 19, 9 - 6 & Saturday, October 20, 9 - 3 pm
Tresidder Union, Oak West Room, Stanford University
“Turkmenistan in Transition"
Muhammad Tahir
Osher Fellow; Broadcaster,Turkmen Service, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West 2nd Floor Room 208, Stanford University
Co-Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation; CREEES & CEAS
UNAFF- 10th United Nations Association Film Festival:
“Camera as Witness”
Wednesday, October 24 - Sunday, October 28, 2007
Stanford University & Palo Alto Locations vary, please check the Film Festival Schedule
Sponsored by CREEES and many other organizations
UNAFF- 10th United Nations Association Film Festival:
“Orange Revolution”
Internationally acclaimed film
Sunday, October 28 1:40 pm
Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford University
Information about this film
Sponsored by CREEES and many other organizations
“Galicia in the Age of Metternich and Fredro"
Larry Wolff
History Department, New York University
Monday, October 29, 2007 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West 2nd Floor Room 208, Stanford University
“The Legendary Wayne Vucinich: His Memoir”
Larry Wolff
History Department, New York University
Norman Naimark
History Department, Stanford University
NEW TIME!!! Monday, October 29, 2007 4:30 - 6:00 pm NEW TIME!!!
Oak West Lounge, Tresidder Union, Stanford University
Information about this film
Sponsored by CREEES and many other organizations
The CREEES 2007 Alexander Dallin Lecture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
“Russia before the Parliamentary and Presidential Election: Towards a New Authoritarian Regime"
Lev Gudkov
Levada Center Moscow
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:00 pm
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Stanford University
Directions
Every Tuesday at 6:00 pm!
Come to the Russian Table at Slavianskii Dom!!!Free Dinner! Practice your Russian language skills! All levels welcome - from first year to native speaker
Slavianskii Dom - 650 Mayfield Drive -
"Report from the Stanford Overseas Seminar in Mongolia"
Mark Mancall
History Professor Emeritus, Stanford University with
Budruun Gardi ‘09 and Saya Kitasei ‘08
Monday, November 5, 2007 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Film Maker Zelimir Zilnik at Stanford Screening Fortress Europe (2000) followed by Q&A
Thursday, November 8, 2007 7:00 pm
Cubberley Auditorium Stanford University
Also
Director's Workshop with Zelimir Zilnik
Friday, November 9, 2007 10:00am-12:30pm Building 120, S64 Stanford University Co-sponsored by CREEES, Stanford Humanities Center, Forum on Contemporary Europe, and Film and Media Studies"The Sputnik Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable"
Donald Kennedy
Stanford University President Emeritus and
Bing Professor of Environmental Sciences Emeritus
David Holloway
Professor of History & Politics; Senior Fellow, FSI
J. David Powell
Professor Emeritus, Aeronautics, Astronautics & Mechanical Engineering
Pavel Podvig
CISAC Research Associate
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:15 pm
Building 370 Room 370, 450 Serra Mall
“How Firm Is President Lukashenko’s Grip on Power in Belarus?”
Jan MaksymiukHoover Osher Fellow, Regional Analyst with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
"Cultural Heritage in Kosova/o: Violence, Healing and Legislation"
Ana Bezic
Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology Department, Stanford University
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 208
2007-08 Stanford Silk Road Lectures series presents:
"From Korea to Cairo: Mamluks on the Silk Road"
Etienne de la Vaissiere
Associate Professor, Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes
Friday, November 30, 2007 7:30 pm
Building 200, History Corner, Room 203
Co-Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation; CREEES & CEAS
2007-08 Stanford Lectures series on Ukraine presents:
“The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform:
A Comparative Study of Ukraine and Russia"
David Lane
Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Social &
Political Sciences, Cambridge University
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 5:15 pm
Encina Hall West, Room 202
Co-Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation; CREEES & CEAS
“When Languages Die: Tracking Global and Local Trends of Language Extinction”
K. David Harrison
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Swarthmore College
Research Director, Living Tongues Institute
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 4:15 pm
Bolivar House Conference Room, 582 Alvarado Row
Directions
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for African Studies &
the Center for South Asia
2007-08 Stanford Silk Road Lectures series presents:
“Cross-Dressing Heroines and Talking Horses:
Documenting Tuvan Epic Tales from along the Silk Road”
K. David Harrison
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Swarthmore College
Research Director, Living Tongues Institute
Thursday, December 6, 2007 7:30 pm
Building 260, Pigott Hall, Room 113
Co-Sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation; CREEES & CEAS
"The Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible"
Stephen Braun
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Correspondent for the LA Times, and Author
Thursday, January, 10 2008 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Building 260 Room 113
2007-08 Stanford Lectures series on Ukraine presents:
“A National History for a New Ukraine"
Professor Serhy Yekelchyk
Department of History, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Thursday, January 17, 5:00 pm
Location TBA
"Pleistocene Park"
Adam Wolff
Doctoral candidate, Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00 pm
Encina Hall West Room 208
2007-08 Stanford Lectures series on Ukraine presents:
“Globalization Challenges and the New Religions Answer"
Vyacheslav Ageyev
Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Researcher Program, San Francisco State University, Philosophy Department
Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Thursday, February 14, 5:00 pm
Location TBA
"The 1989 Revolutions: Roots, Causes and Legacies"
A Conference Organized by the European Center at Stanford
Friday, March 14 & Saturday, March 15, 2008
TIme and Location information to come
2007-08 Stanford Lectures series on Ukraine presents:
“Contemporary Ukrainian Literature: Writing, Translating, Publishing"
Roman Tashlitskyy
Fulbright Scholar, San Francisco State University, Master's Comparative Literature Program;
Theory of Literature, Lesia Ukrainka Volyn National University
Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:00 pm
Location TBA
2007-08 Stanford Lectures series on Ukraine presents:
“Culture in the Empire and the Problem of Defining Russian and Ukrainian ‘National’ Cultures"
Professor Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
April, 2008 5:00 pm
Exact Date and Location TBA
A Kingdom Reborn: Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia (Canada/Ukraine, 2007, 57 mins.)
Screening with film director and producer Danielle Stodilka and film writer Peter Bejger
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Cubberley Auditorium
Presented by the Stanford Ukrainian Studies Program
Import/Export (dir. Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 2007)
Film introduced by Jessie Labov, Comparative Literature, Stanford
Friday, May 30, 2008, 7 p.m.
Cubberley Auditorium
Presented by the CREEES Spring Film Festival
"Between Empire and Nation: Urban Politics and Local Culture in Late Imperial Kyiv"
Faith Hillis
CREEES Visiting Scholar, Doctoral Candidate, History Department, Yale University
Monday, June 2, 2008, 12 noon - 1 p.m.
Encina Hall West, Room 208
Presented by the Stanford Ukrainian Studies Program
"'Cooperating' with the Past: The Attitude of Romanian Society toward the Former Communist Secret Police (the Securitate)"
Florin Sperlea
CREEES Visiting Scholar from Romania
Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 12 noon - 1 p.m.
Encina Hall West, Room 208
"Weimar on the Dniper: Ukrainian Politics in Post-Constitutional Reform Period"
Pavlo Kutuyev
Chopivsky Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University and Professor, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Thursday, June 5, 2008, 5 p.m.
Encina Hall West, Room 202
Presented by the Stanford Lectures on Ukraine