University of Chicago :: Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

05.09-05.10.2008 Workshop: "SIBERIAN THAW: Climate Change and Social Change in Siberia" [poster]
05.01-05.03.2008 3rd University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archeology
4.26.2008 Manchevski Film Screenings, Discussion with Director
4.18.2008 Elissa Helms "Hierarchies of Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina"
04.10-04.12.2008 28th Annual Slavic Forum
04.10.2008 Katalin Kovalcsik (Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) "The Change of Storytelling in a Hungarian Vlach Romani Community from the 1980s to 2002"
03.31.2008 Nauryz with Roksonaki: A Concert of Kazakh Music
03.28-03.30.2008 43rd Annual Spring Festival of Balkan and Southeast European Music and Dance
03.06.2008 "The Closing of the ICTY and its Affect on Justice and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia." Part of the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
03.05.2008 Patrice Dabrowski (Harvard University), "Polish Pustynia: Or, How the Carpathian Wilderness Became the Proving Ground for the Modern Polish Nation.
03.04.2008 Svetlana Boym (Harvard University), "Eccentric Modernities and the Space of Freedom (Shklovsky, Arendt, Kafka)"
02.29-03.01 2008 Midwest Russian Historians Workshop
02.19.2008 Steven Burg (Bradeis), "Is Spain the next Yugoslavia? Ethnoregionalism, Devolution, and Democratization"
02.18.2008 Lale Yalcin-Heckmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), "Land, Territory and Property in War: Examples from The Caucasus and the Middle East"
02.12.2008 Open Discussion with Human Rights activist Lev Ponomarev: "The Presidential Elections and the General Situation of Human Rights and Rule of Law in Russia"
02.08.2008 Steven Mansbach: “Another History of Modern Art”
02.06.2008 Annual Weissbourd Lecture by Michael Burawoy: “Social Sciences and Politics: From Max Weber to Public Sociology”
02.03.2008 Concert: Zolotoi Plyos, Russian Folk Trio
01.30.2008 Poetry Reading: Aleksandr Skidan, "Red Shifting"
01.28.2008 Tomislav Longinovic ( UW-Madison), "The Great Vampire Deception: Violence as Cultural Imaginary"
12.05.2007 His Excellency Yegor Gaidar, "The Soviet Collapse, the Dangers of Nostalgia, and the Dangers of Modern Russia”, at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
11.01.2007 Steve LeVine on his new book "The Oil and the Glory." Click on the title for information about the book and LeVine's blog. Media available on CHIASMOS.
10.15.2007 Heather Roberson, on her graphic novel "Macedonia: What does it take to stop a war?", co-authored with Harvey Pekar. A radio interview with Roberson on WHPK, 88.5 FM Chicago is available here [be careful, it's a big file!]
10.12-14, 2007 SCLC 2007: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association Annual Conference
10.02.2007 Robert Amsterdam, "Preparing for the Post-Putin Period." Amsterdam is legal defense counsel for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Part of the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Media available on CHIASMOS.
09.28.2007 "Photographing Heritage: Art or Documentation?" with Pance Velkov, at the opening of his photography exhibit "Time and the Sacred", at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Opening discussion available on CHIASMOS. A radio interview with Velkov on WHPK, 88.5 FM Chicago is available here. [be careful, it's a big file!]
08.14-17, 2007 "Institute on Europe: European Identities and the EU," Teacher training workshop at Joliet Junior College. Online video sessions forthcoming!

archived events 2006-2007