Kristen R. Ghodsee, Chair and Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the graduate group in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, presents the 2024-25 CEERES Director's Lecture.
CEERES Events
CEERES and the University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences present the inaugural event in the Václav Havel Lecture Series, commemorating the Czech dissident, playwright, and statesman. His Excellency Petr Pavel, president of the Czech Republic, will give an address titled “The Transatlantic Bond: Challenges and Opportunities.” He will be joined in conversation by Benjamin Frommer of Northwestern University.
Erik Scott (University of Kansas) discusses his book about Soviet defectors.
Filip Šír of the Czech National Museum Sound Lab takes us on a multimedia tour of the music scene in early 20th century Pilsen, Chicago, home of Czech and Bohemian immigrants.
Mihaela P. Harper (Bilkent University, Türkiye) discusses Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter, winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize.
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land tells a story of a region long derided as the “Other Europe.”
Professor Vjeran Pavlaković is a leading voice on the politics of memory in Southeastern Europe with a particular focus on the landscapes of materialized nationalisms of the former Yugoslavia.
Talk by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk.
In celebration of the publication of Zenithism, 1921-1927: A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology, the first English language anthology on this important but neglected art movement, join us for a discussion with editors Aleksandar Bošković and Steven Teref
Russian opposition leader Lyubov Sobol discusses the future of Russia with Harris School for Public Policy professor Konstantin Sonin.