Upcoming Events


CREEES/ICA Summer International Film Festival 2008: "TRANSNATIONAL JOURNEYS"

Five films will be presented on five consecutive Wednesdays beginning August 6 and introduced by scholars with expertise in the region depicted in the film. Read more >

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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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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"Kudy Nezalezhna Ukraina: the Road to Europe"

Roy Gardner
Chancellor's Professor of Economics and West European Studies
Indiana University

Thurs., Oct. 2
12 noon
Encina East E008

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The Alexander Dallin Lecture in Russian, East European & Eurasian Affairs

Title TBD
Peter Reddaway
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs
George Washington University

Wed., Oct. 15
4:15 pm
Location TBD

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CREEES 'Sounds of Eurasia" Series Receives $23,300 SICA Grant

The Stanford Initiative for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) awarded a Major Grant to the CREEES "Sounds of Eurasia" Performance Series for 2008-09. "Sounds of Eurasia" was launched in March 2008 by Visiting Professor of Music and Slavic Izaly Zemtsovsky and Visiting Professor of Anthropology Alma Kunanbaeva in an effort to bring leading exponents of Eurasian musical traditions to the Stanford campus for concerts and educational workshops. SICA funding allows the series to be expanded and enhanced in 2008-09. Read more >

Above: Visiting Professor of Music and Slavic Izaly Zemtsovsky and Fulbright Scholar and Ukrainian Song Preservationist Marjana Sadowska in April 2008.

News

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Stanford/Berkeley Conference on Russia, East European & Eurasian Studies can be viewed on ForaTV.com, a public affairs web portal partnered with CSPAN. The conference "Political Succession in Russia" featured distinguished scholars from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and other Bay Area institutions and was held on March 7, 2008 in the Hoover Institution. Click here to view: Panel 1, part 1 | Panel 1, part 2 | Panel 2 | Panel 3