Events 2018-2019

12/3 Film Screening: Women of the Gulag

Tuesday, December 3
at 5:00 pm
Franke Institute for the
Humanities
1100 E. 57th Street

Understanding the Velvet Revolution Through Film

Please join CEERES for a film screening dedicated to the Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Film screening will begin at 5pm
Two movies will be shown: The Power of the Powerless, and Jak to říct dětem (What to Tell the Kids).

Location: Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E. 57th Street (main level of Regenstein Library by the East entrance)

 

Film summaries:

Flights and Spoors: an Evening Dedicated to Olga Tokarczuk

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Flights and Spoors: an Evening Dedicated to Olga Tokarczuk

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invite you to a roundtable on the Nobel Prize Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's work, followed by a screening of Spoor (Agnieszka Holland, 2017).

10/10/19 CEERES Welcome Back Reception

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Welcome Back Reception

When: Thursday, October 10, 4:30-6:00pm

Where: 1155 East 60th Street, 3rd Floor

Rooms 301A, 301B, 306, 307, 308

We are ready to kick off another busy year and to welcome our new director to CEERES!

Please come to toast the start of another year full of new and exciting programming.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Eugene, Esther, Matthew

Between Russia and Japan: How Russian Turkic immigrants helped Japan to make the 'Islamic image'

Monday, October 14, 2019

BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN

How Russian Turkic immigrants helped Japan to make the ‘Islamic image’

October 14, 2019
5:00 PM
Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street
 

 

Registration Now Open! UChicago Summer Institute for Educators

Thursday, June 27, 2019 to Friday, June 28, 2019

Inspiring Connections: Igniting Critical Thinking and Communication through Global News

June 27–28, 2019

University of Chicago campus

9:00am–4:00pm both days

6/10-6/11 The Production of Knowledge in the USSR

The Production of Knowledge in the USSR
June 10-11
The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
5737 South University Avenue

CEERES Director's Lecture

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Tea Room
1126 East 59th Street, Room 201
Persons with diabilities who are in need of assistance
should contact CEERES at CEERES@uchicago.edu
This event is free and open to the public

CEERES of Voices: Rachel Applebaum - "Empire of Friends"

Thursday, May 23, 2019

On Thursday May 23 at 5:30 p.m., join CEERES for a conversation with Rachel Applebaum, Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History at Tufts University, who will discuss her book Empire of Friends.

 

A Conversation with Aleksandar Hemon

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

“Home is where somebody notices
when you are no longer there.”

A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Man and The Lazarus Project. He frequently publishes in The New Yorker, and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani.

Tuesday, May 14 at 3:30 pm
Lecture Hall
Swift Hall, Third Floor
1025 E. 58th Street

 

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