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Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies

Access to REECAS Website (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

PolarTrec (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating) (8/15/2007 - 8/4/2008)

REECAS materials and resources dispatched in response to inquiries, curriculum materials and videotapes borrowed from the REECAS Outreach Collection (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

REECAS Newsletter (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

REECAS-NW Electronic Forum (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Silk Road Lectures (8/15/2007 - 5/27/2008)

The Donald W. Treadgold Papers (8/15/2007 - 8/14/2008)

Lecture - "Peter and his City" (8/20/2007 - 8/22/2007)

Lecture - "Novosibirsk: the heart of Siberia" (8/21/2007)

Lecture - "Russia's Political Landscape" (8/21/2007)

Lecture - "Nationalization of Energy Assets in the Russian Federation" (8/22/2007)

Lecture - "The Putin Prerogative" (8/23/2007)

Exploration Seminar - "The New Siburbia" (8/25/2007 - 9/20/2007)

Festival - CroatiaFest (9/6/2007 - 9/7/2007)

Seminar Series - UW Central Asian Studies Group (9/24/2007 - 6/5/2008)

Lecture - "Fate and the Fourth: Reading Tchaikovsky's Symphony" (9/27/2007 - 9/30/2007)

Lecture - "Property Rights and Incentives in Russian Translation" (9/28/2007)

Washington State Council for the Social Studies (WSCSS) Fall In-Service Lecture - "The Putin Prerogative" (10/13/2007)

Lecture - "Russia: Do Elections Really Matter?" (10/14/2007)

Conference - 8th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference (10/18/2007 - 10/21/2007)

Cultural Event - 2007 Slavic Homecoming Celebration: Bulgaria (10/20/2007)

Festival - TurkFest 2007 (10/20/2007 - 10/21/2007)

Film Series - Central Asian Film Festival (10/20/2007)

Cultural Event - KVN Russian Comedy Group Uralski Pilmeni (10/26/2007)

Czech table (10/27/2007 - 6/10/2008)

Lecture - "Nuclear Nonproliferation Actions in Uzbekistan" (10/31/2007)

Conference - ICTs in Central Asia (11/1/2007)

Lecture - "Post-Communist Transformations in Central Europe by Lezesk Balcerowicz" (11/1/2007)

Lecture - "Verbal Content of Visual Art" (11/2/2007)

Roundtable - "Discussion with Lezsek Balcerowicz" (11/2/2007)

Lecture - "The Resergent Russian Energy Super Power" (11/7/2007)

Teacher Workshop - "Russia: Fueling the Future: Peace or Conflict?" (11/7/2007)

Film - "Do You Want a Revolution: Aspazija and Her Pen" (11/14/2007)

Film - "Fire and Erotica: Aspazija's The Silver Veil" (11/15/2007)

Lecture - "Symphonic Revolutions and Shostakovich's 11th Symphony" (11/15/2007 - 11/17/2007)

Film - "Orange Revolution" (11/16/2007)

Interview - "Russian Elections" (11/16/2007)

Book talk: "The Zookeepers Wife" (11/19/2007)

Film - "Escape from Troy" (11/19/2007)

Lecture - "Russian Elections as a Triumph of Political Manipulation" (11/19/2007)

Lecture: "Russia Today: a social perspective" (11/27/2007)

Lecture - "Nine Days that shook the World: John Paul II's Pilgrimage to Poland, June 1979" (11/29/2007)

Lecture - "Russia and the World in the 20th Century" (12/2/2007 - 12/21/2007)

Lecture - "Commemorating 200 Years of US-Russia Diplomatic Relations" (12/4/2007)

Lecture - "Putin's Prerogative" (12/4/2007)

Performance - "Goran Alacki, Adrijana Alack and Dragi Spasovski" (12/7/2007)

Lecture - "Hope for Health in a Weakened Nation" (12/10/2007)

Lecture - "Why Languages Matter and How Languages Work" (12/19/2007)

Lecture - "A Major Work in a Minor Key" (1/4/2008)

Lecture - "Researching Russia's Past and Present" (1/6/2008)

Performance - "Sviatiy Vechir, Schedriy Vechir" (1/12/2008)

Lecture - "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1991-1996 with a Focus on Bosnia Herzegovina and the Current Conditions in the Region" (1/14/2008)

Lecture - "Natural Law, Intellectual History and Zeitgeist-Essential Elements in Eastern European Democratization?" (1/16/2008)

Conference - Medieval Islamic History and Mysticism (1/17/2008 - 1/18/2008)

Lecture - "Vladamir Putin and the New Russian Nationalism" (1/17/2008)

Teacher Workshop - "Exploring Asia: Newspapers in Education" (1/23/2008)

Performance - "Compositions for Voice and Paper" (1/27/2008)

Lecture - "Kosovo and the Road to Independence" (1/28/2008)

Lecture - "Russian Land Reform: Phases, Proceedures, Outcomes" (1/29/2008)

Lecture - "Wounded Messenger: The Pain and Honor of Reporting Trauma" (1/30/2008)

Performance - "Mihaela Ursuleasa" (1/30/2008)

Lecture - "The Creation and the Breakup of Former Yugoslavia: from one came seven, maybe more" (1/31/2008)

Lecture - "Mongolia's Common Property Resources and the Challenge of Economic Development" (2/7/2008)

Presentation - "Research and Study Abroad Opportunities in Mongolia" (2/8/2008)

Lecture - "Russia's Capitalist Revolution" (2/11/2008)

Lecture - "Hercules in Central Asia" (2/12/2008)

Lecture - "A Lesson in Belorussian" (2/16/2008)

Performance - "Viva Polonia Ball" (2/16/2008)

Performance - "Russian National Orchestra" (2/17/2008)

Film/Discussion - "The Great Communist Bank Robbery" (2/18/2008 - 2/21/2008)

Film Series - "Russia in the Eyes of Poles, Poland in the Eyes of Russians" (2/22/2008)

Lecture - "The Mongols" (2/22/2008)

Lecture - "Early Nomads in Eurasia" (2/24/2008)

Lecture - "John Paul II's First Pilgrimage to Poland, June 1979" (2/24/2008)

Lecture - "Georgia and Abhazia: A Frozen Conflict" (2/25/2008)

Lecture - "From National Victims to Transnational Bystanders? The Changing Commemoration of World War II in the Baltic Sea Region" (2/26/2008)

Exploring Asia Lecture - "An Introduction to the Uighur People" (2/27/2008)

Exploring Asia Performance - "Music of the Uighur Nation" (2/27/2008)

Lecture - "From Cultural Autonomy in Estonia to Nazi Population Politics in Eastern Europe: The Case of Werner Hasselblatt" (2/27/2008)

Lecture - "Russian Civilization" (2/27/2008)

Performance - "Music of the Uighur Nation" (2/28/2008)

Performance - "Huun Huur Tu" (Tuvan Throat-Singing Ensemble) (3/2/2008)

Lecture - "Climbing Up or Just Muddling Through? Democratic Transitions in Ukraine" (3/3/2008)

Teacher Workshop - "Resurgent Russia: teaching contemporary Russia at the high school level" (3/8/2008)

Discussion - "Ilkhom Theater" (3/9/2008)

Lecture - "Nagorno-Karabakh and Self-Determination" (3/10/2008)

Festival - "The Ilkhom Theater Festival" (3/14/2008 - 4/13/2008)

Documentary Screening - "End of an Era: Tashkent" (3/16/2008)

Discussion - "White White Black Stork" (3/18/2008)

Teacher Workshop - "The Ilkhom Theater Festival: Apple Series" (3/19/2008)

Lecture - "Russia after Putin" (3/21/2008)

Cultural Event - "Novruz Celebration" (3/22/2008)

Teacher Workshop: "Hands on the World: connecting crafts and cultures" (Session on Polish crafts) (3/22/2008)

Documentary Screening - "End of an Era: Tashkent" (3/30/2008)

Hot Spots Lecture: "Russia, the EU and the United States: Soul Mates?" (4/2/2008)

Documentary Screening - "Flying Confessions of a Free Woman" (4/3/2008)

Documentary Screening - "End of an Era Tashkent" (4/4/2008)

Documentary Screening: "The Signing Revolution" (4/4/2008 - 4/10/2008)

Celebration: "35th Anniversary of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association" (4/5/2008)

Lecture and Moderated Discussion - "Great Discussions: Russia and Putin" (4/5/2008)

Post Play Discusion - "Ecstasy with the Pomegranate" (4/6/2008)

Roundtable - "Roundtable with Ambassador Erlan A. Idrissov" (4/7/2008)

Lecture - "Mass Culture or Counter Culture? Czech Catholicism and American Catholicism: A Comparison of their Social, Cultural and Political Situation and Impact" (4/8/2008)

Conference - "14th Annual REECAS NW Conference- Nationas States and Identities in Russia, East Europe and Central Asia" (4/12/2008)

Lecture - "Czech and Slovak Folklore and Folksongs" (4/12/2008)

Lecture - "Relations Between Czechs and Slovaks from 1918-1938 and Beyond" (4/12/2008)

Lecture - "Slovakia from the Democratic Czechoslovak Republic to the Stalinist Dictatorship 1938-1948" (4/12/2008)

Donald Treadgold Memorial Lecture - "Post-Communism as a Rorschach Test: Sources and Consequences of Various Models of Post-1989 Transformations" (4/14/2008)

Roundtable - "Globalization and Regionalism in Northeast Asia at the Dawn of the Asian Century" (4/15/2008)

Lecture - "Modern American Foriegn Policy Making" (Christopher Hill) (4/16/2008)

Documentary Screening - "End of an Era Tashkent" (4/17/2008)

Event: "12th Annual Seattle Sister Cities Reception" (4/17/2008)

Roundtable - "Open World Rule of Law Program" (Delegation from Kazakhstan) (4/24/2008)

Theatrical Facilitation in the Balkans and Middle East (4/24/2008)

Lecture - "Powerlines: the Geopolitics of Eurasian Energy" (4/25/2008)

Presentation - "Take a Closer Look at Russia" (4/25/2008)

Event - "Washington Weekend Jackson School International Knowledge Bowl" (4/26/2008)

Film Festival - 16th Annual Seattle Polish Film Festival (4/26/2008 - 4/27/2008)

Lecture - "Revolution's Aftermath: Twenty Years of Polish Democracy" (4/30/2008)

Conference - "The European Union after Enlargement: Policies and Politics in a New Context" (5/1/2008 - 5/3/2008)

Roundtable - "Roundtable with Polish Activist Adam Michnik" (5/2/2008)

Lecture - "75th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1932-33 Genocide/Famine in Ukraine" (5/4/2008 - 5/8/2008)

Lecture - "The Creation and the Breakup of Former Yugoslavia- From One Came Seven, Maybe More" (5/7/2008)

Roundtable - "Roundtable Discussion with Meilute Ramoniene" (5/9/2008)

Performance - "A Night at the Opera and Up Close and Personal with Mariusz Kwiencien" (5/10/2008)

Lecture - "Is Russian Labor Really Docile? The Post-Communist Proletariat in Comparative Historical Perspective" (5/12/2008)

Conference - "Globalization, Energy and Environment" (5/29/2008 - 5/30/2008)

Lecture - "Pop Culture in Post-Soviet Uzbekestan" (6/19/2008)

Film - "The Cave of the Yellow Dog" (6/20/2008)

Film - "Kuresh Olmeydu" (6/24/2008)

Lecture - "US-Russian Relations after Presidential Elections: Renewed Partnership or New Cold War?" (6/24/2008)

Teacher Workshop - Summer Seminar Presentation "Death Rituals in the Baltics" (6/25/2008 - 6/26/2008)

Lecture - "Language Policy in Independent Central Asia and Azerbaijan" (6/26/2008)

Film - "Dev bilan Pakana" (6/27/2008)

Lecture - "Kazakh Language in Media" (7/1/2008)

Presentation - Mongolian Cooking Demonstration (7/2/2008)

Film - "Kek" (7/3/2008)

Presentation - Uyghur Baby Showers (7/7/2008)

Lecuture - "Kazakhstan: The Challenges of Prosperity" (7/10/2008)

Lecture - "Language Education in Uzbekistan" (7/14/2008)

Lecture - "Tajiki Weblogs and Blogs" (7/15/2008)

Lecture - "Inner Asia? Central Asia? Central Eurasia? What Exactly are They?" (7/16/2008)

Presentation - "Uzbekistan Through the Lens" (7/17/2008)

Presentation - Azeri Cooking Demonstration (7/20/2008)

Lecture - "Tajik on the Internet" (7/21/2008)

Lecture - "Mongolian Nomadic Customs, Hospitality" (7/22/2008)

Lecture - "Historical Buildings of Afghanistan" (7/23/2008)

Lecture - "Mongolian Cinematic History" (7/23/2008)

Presentation - Uzbek Cooking Demonstration (7/23/2008)

Lecture - "Kazakh Manti" (7/27/2008)

Presentation - Uyghur Cooking (7/28/2008)

Lecture - "Turkmen Bilingual Education" (7/29/2008)

Lecture - "Azerbaijan: Land of Fire" (7/31/2008)

Presentation - Turkmen Rug Display (8/5/2008)

Presentation - Azeri Cooking Demonstration (8/6/2008)

Lecture: "Uyghur Traditional Food" (8/7/2008)

Television Interview - "War in Georgia" (8/13/2008 - 8/14/2008)

Access to REECAS Website (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Foundation Board Member Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Member of the Board of Directors Czech Center for Education and Culture (8/15/2008 - 4/15/2009)

Public Lectures on U.S.-Russian relations to various community groups in Puget Sound area Steve Hanson (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

REECAS materials and resources dispatched in response to inquiries, curriculum materials and videotapes borrowed from the REECAS Outreach Collection (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

REECAS Newsletter (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

REECAS-NW Electronic Forum (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

The Donald W. Treadgold Papers (8/15/2008 - 8/14/2009)

Lecture Nation-building in Central Asia Soviet and post-Soviet Florian Schwarz (8/20/2008)

Teacher Workshops Developing Language Curriculum, Latvian School of Seattle (9/1/2008 - 7/15/2009)

Lectures and Screenings Milo Formans Formative Films (9/16/2008 - 10/1/2008)

Presentation on Gen. Miroslaw Hermaszewski The History and Future of Space Travel (9/18/2008)

Film Masaki Kobayashis Trilogy The Human Condition Part III A Soldiers Prayer (9/19/2008 - 9/25/2008)

Briefing on Russia for Trade Development Alliance Advisory Board (9/24/2008)

Lecture President of the Czech Republic The European Union Presidency and Perspectives on Leadership. Speaker President Vclav Klaus, Czech Republic (10/1/2008)

Russian Olympiada (10/1/2008 - 6/30/2009)

Lecture Thirteen Years Since the End of the Balkan War Social and Psychological Perspectives. Speaker Charles David Tauber, M.D (10/2/2008 - 10/2/2009)

Performance Bulgarian Dance Party (10/3/2008)

Croatia Fest 2008 (10/4/2008 - 10/5/2008)

Lecture Russian-American Relations Challenges for the New American Administration Speaker Ambassador James F. Collins (10/7/2008)

Roundtable Discussion The State of US-Russian Relations Speaker Ambassador James F. Collins (10/7/2008)

Lecture Through Dark Days and White Nights Four Decades Observing a Changing Russia Speaker Ambassador James F. Collins and Dr. Naomi F. Collins (10/8/2008)

Russian Yarmarka Festival (10/11/2008)

Teacher Workshop Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia Allison Dvaladze (10/11/2008)

Czech Language Table (10/14/2008 - 6/9/2009)

Presentation on Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza (10/15/2008)

Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral Festival (10/16/2008 - 10/17/2008)

Lecture Our Lady Czestochowa Religious or National Symbols of Poland? Anna Niedzwiedz (10/21/2008)

Lecture Hungary Now Opportunities and Challenges. Speaker His Excellency Ferenc Somogyi, Ambassador of Hungary to the United States (10/30/2008)

47th Annual Fall Polish Bazaar (11/1/2008 - 11/2/2008)

Seminar Series UW Central Asian Studies Group (11/1/2008 - 5/1/2009)

Lecture Russian Reactions to the Obama Victory and the Future of U.S.-Russian Relations (11/4/2008)

Concert Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (11/5/2008)

Lecture The Baltic Region as a German Borderland in World War I and its Aftermath Speaker Vejas Liulevicius (11/7/2008)

Book Discussion The Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Greats Russia Speaker Douglas Smith (11/9/2008)

Performance Polands Independence Day Celebrations (11/9/2008)

Roundtable with Journalists from Georgia - Reporting the 2008 Russian-Georgian War (11/10/2008)

Teacher Workshop Waking up to Russia A Look at Russia from a Global Perspective with an Inside Look at the Russia-Georgia Conflict Allison Dvaladze (11/13/2008)

Concert Chirgilchin Tuvan Throat Singing and Music from Russia (11/14/2008)

Performance Stefche Stojkovski (11/15/2008 - 11/16/2008)

Concert Evening of Sevdah The Love Songs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (11/29/2008)

Lecture How to read Russian Childrens Comics Speaker Jose Alaniz (12/1/2008)

Performance The Quick Change Room (12/1/2008 - 12/14/2008)

Lecture Georgia Crisis Roundtable Speakers Frederick Lorenz, Allison Dvaladze and Khatuna Giorgadze (12/3/2008)

Prospects for US-Russian Relations - Keynote at Annual Meeting of the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (12/4/2008)

Film At the Crossroads Slovenian Cinema (12/5/2008 - 12/14/2008)

Performance Balkan Cabaret (12/5/2008)

Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Celebration (12/9/2008)

Teacher Workshop The Black Sea and the Mediterranean as a Crossroads of East and West (12/11/2008)

Exhibit Art of the Children of Ukraine (12/13/2008)

Festival Russian Bazaar (12/27/2008 - 12/28/2008)

Lecture A History of US-Russian Relations Since 1989 (1/11/2009)

Exhibit Polish Heroes - Those Who Rescued Jews (1/12/2009 - 2/15/2009)

Class Presentation Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia Allison Dvaladze (1/14/2009)

Concert Takacs String Quartet (1/14/2009)

The Vatican in the 20th Century The Popes Confront a Turbulent World (1/20/2009 - 2/17/2009)

Lecture Russian 101 The basics for travel to Russia Speaker Allison Dvaladze (2/8/2009)

Class Presentation - Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia Allison Dvaladze (2/13/2009 - 2/14/2009)

Performance A Night at the Opera and Up Close and Personal with Mezzo-Soprano Malgorzata Walewska. (2/28/2009)

Interviews Mikhail Gorbachev for National History Day (3/1/2009 - 4/1/2009)

Maslenitsa Celebration (3/1/2009)

Lecture Social Activism Some Preliminary Observations on Differences Between Latvia and the United States Speaker Andrejs Berdnikovs (3/2/2009)

Lecture, The Cultures of Postcommunism in Ukraine Perspectives on the Creation of New Identities (3/2/2009)

Lecture Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia (3/6/2009)

Interview with Lesia Voronyna, Znakova Postat program, Radio Kultura Series (3/7/2009)

Lecture Learning about Life in Russia and QandA with a Native Russian (3/7/2009)

Teacher Workshop K-8 Arts Mosaic Sevdah - Bosnian-Herzogovinian Dance Presenter Bojan Belic (3/7/2009)

Lecture Russia and its Neighbors Challenging the Post-Soviet Status Quo? Speakers Scott Radnitz and Allison Dvaladze (3/10/2009)

Lecture Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia Allison Dvaladze (3/14/2009)

Performance Novruz (3/21/2009)

Play Crime and Punishment (3/29/2009 - 5/3/2009)

Lecture Hot Spots in Our World Russia, Europe, and the Redefinition of Eurasian Security after the Georgian War Speaker Stephen E. Hanson (4/1/2009)

Teacher Workshop 6th Annual International Classroom Workshop Theme Conflict in the Caucasus and Asia (4/7/2009)

Lecture The International Community in Afghanistan An Afghan Perspective Speaker Fazel Rabi Hagbeen (4/8/2009)

Lecture and Activity Cultural Exercise for Understanding Russian Culture and Perspective (4/11/2009)

Lecture Cultural Identity in Southeastern Europe Balancing the Global and the Local Speaker Ronelle Alexander (4/14/2009)

Lecture The Logic of Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia Speaker Henry Hale (4/15/2009)

Lecture The Russian Way and Russian Soul Speaker Svetlana Malkarova (4/15/2009)

Lecture Nordic Influences in the Russian Language Speaker John Dingley (4/16/2009)

Conference 15th Annual REECAS-NW Conference Ecological, Cultural and Political Change in Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (4/18/2009)

Lecture The Donald Treadgold Memorial Lecture Warning of Global Warming? The Intertwined Nature of Ecological, Cultural and Political Change in the Far East of Siberia Speaker Marjorie Balzer (4/20/2009)

Lecture Cold War Nostalgia From Stalin world, Lituania, to the Internatioanl Spy Museum, D.C. (4/23/2009)

Lecture Rethinking U.S.-Russia Relations Speakers Thomas Graham and Eugene Rumer (4/23/2009)

Performance Music of Mongolia and South Africa (4/28/2009)

Lecture How Public is Our Republic of Poland? Speaker Lech Marcinkowski (4/29/2009)

Lecture The Gatekeepers of Christendom Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West Speaker Patrick Hyder Patterson (4/30/2009)

Lecture Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic Speaker Ambassador Zamira Sydykova (5/6/2009)

Conference 21st Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Inner/Central Asian Studies (5/9/2009)

Documentary Film Teacher Workshop Coming of Age (5/9/2009)

Lecture Practical Needs for Travel to Russia (5/9/2009)

The Henry M. Jackson School of International studies Centennial Events (5/11/2009)

Lecture Hotspots in Our World Lecture Series Chinas Far West Identity, Administration, and Separatism in Xinjiang Speaker Bradley Jensen Murg (5/13/2009)

Spring Opera Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin (5/13/2009 - 5/17/2009)

Conference Presentation Converting Crisis into Development Opportunities A Regional Proposal for Capacity Building and Action Research (5/14/2009 - 5/16/2009)

Conference Presentation Reforming Public Administration and Its Strategic Partnering for Sustainable Communities Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead (5/14/2009 - 5/16/2009)

Film Katyn (5/15/2009 - 5/20/2009)

Katyn A Historical Introduction with Q and A (5/15/2009)

Lecture Conflict in the Caucasus US-Russian Relations and the War in Georgia Allison Dvaladze (5/15/2009)

IN TANDEM A TRANSLATION SERIES Talks and Readings by Translators. Translating Slovenian Literature, featuring Michael Biggins and Kelly Lenox (5/16/2009)

Latvia Ally and Partner in Europe His Excellency Valdis Zatlers, President of the Republic of Latvia (5/18/2009)

A Special Evening with His Excellency, Valdis Zatlers, President of the Republic of Latvia (5/19/2009)

Conference Presentation Microeconomics of Competitiveness - Regional Implementations and Impacts in Europe and USA (5/19/2009)

Lecture The Ghost of Freedom A History of the Caucasus Charles King, GU (5/21/2009)

Conference Europes Near Abroad EU External Relations and the Future of the Black Sea Region (5/22/2009)

Seattle International Film Festival Films from Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (5/24/2009 - 6/14/2009)

Lecture Meeting Kyrgyzstans Food Security Challenge with Home Gardens Miriam Counterman (5/28/2009)

Lecture Commemorating the Polish Elections of June 1989 A Retrospective with Video, Discussion and Remembrances (6/4/2009)

Lessons of the Eastern Enlargement for the Western Balkans (6/9/2009)

Lecture Current Events in Russia, Being in the Know (6/13/2009)

Celebrating the Music of Paul Constantinescu (6/20/2009 - 6/28/2009)

Teacher Workshop - Liquid Planet Exploring Global Water Issues 2009 Summer Seminar Politics and Environmental Management in the Aral Sea Basin (6/24/2009 - 6/25/2009)

Student Travel to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk - Camp Siberia (7/6/2009 - 7/24/2009)

Teacher Workshop Teaching Soviet and Russian History at the Between the Wars 1919-1939 Workshop (7/20/2009 - 7/24/2009)

Teacher Workshop Talk The Soviet Union in the Interwar Years Soviet Modernity or Something Else? Glennys Young (7/23/2009)

Talk 20 Years of FRAEC Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation (7/29/2009)

Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak (7/31/2009)

Talk on Isaac Bashevis Singer (7/31/2009)

REECAS materials and resources dispatched in response to inquiries, curriculum materials and videotapes borrowed from the REECAS Outreach Collection (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

REECAS website (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

REECAS-NW Electronic Forum (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

Seminar Series -- UW Central Asian Studies Group (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

The Donald W. Treadgold Papers (8/15/2009 - 8/14/2010)

The Fall of the Berlin Wall Summer Workshop for High School, Community College, and In-Service Educators (8/19/2009)

29th West Coast Estonian Days Song and Dance Festival (8/20/2009)

Europes Evolution Since 1989 2009 Summer Workshop for High School, Community College, and In-Service Educators (8/20/2009)

The EU and its Black Sea Borderlands (8/20/2009)

Early Fall in Prague program (8/28/2009 - 9/20/2009)

Georgian Music Workshop (9/17/2009)

Memory Work and Collective Identity New Perspectives on Societal Integration in Post-Soviet Estonia (9/18/2009)

Russian Bazaar 2009 (9/26/2009)

Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle (10/3/2009)

Croatiafest 2009 (10/4/2009)

Czech Table meets weekly (10/6/2009 - 6/1/2010)

Energy and Global Security from the Russian Perspective (10/8/2009)

Dry Waters The Soviet Unions Environmental Legacy in Central Asia (10/10/2009)

US-Russian Foreign Policy Discussion with Thomas Graham (10/14/2009)

TurkFest 2009 (10/17/2009)

Lecture Uncivil Society 1989 and the Collapse of the Communist Establishment (10/19/2009)

Playing French Seattle 2009 - Featuring the works of Romanian playwright Matei Visniec (10/20/2009)

Challenges Facing Democracy Assistance in Central Asia (10/21/2009)

Report on the 10th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society CESS (10/22/2009)

Kyrgyzstans South Impressions of Osh (10/23/2009)

Commentary on Ukraines language (10/26/2009)

Kyrgyzstans Bazaars A New Picture of Economic, Cultural and Political Vitality in Central Asia (10/29/2009)

Xinjiang Behind the Violence (10/29/2009)

Asian Musical Crossroads China and Inner Asia/China and Southeast Asia (10/30/2009)

Autumn Evenings RCMFS Fall Concert (10/30/2009)

The Uzbek Short Story a Mirror of Uzbek Life (10/30/2009)

Xinjiang Workshop (10/30/2009)

Crossroads of Asian Music and Poetry China and Inner Asia/China and Southeast Asia (10/31/2009)

REECAS Newsletter (11/1/2009 - 11/1/2010)

Reflecting on Russia with Hedrick Smith (11/2/2009)

A Hidden Buddha The Expression of Spirituality in Mongolian Literature During the Soviet Era (11/6/2009)

The Afghanistan Legal Education Project of the School of Law, UW (11/6/2009)

49th Annual Polish Fall Bazaar (11/7/2009)

Lives, History, Memory The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After (11/10/2009 - 5/25/2010)

Current Development and Medical Reform Projects Implemented by Nonprofit Agencies in Uzbekistan (11/12/2009)

Film Screening The Island Russia (11/12/2009)

The Impact of the Mongol Empire on the Evolution of Russo-Asian Autocracy (11/12/2009)

Why Accountability for Torture is Crucial for Human rights, Our Security, and Our Souls (11/12/2009)

New Life a new experiment by Theatre Khameleon (11/14/2009)

Tomaz Salamun with special guest Matthew Zapruder poetry reading (11/14/2009)

21st Polish Film Festival in America (11/18/2009 - 11/20/2009)

Germany 1989 A new kind of revolution? (11/19/2009)

Vladimir Pozner on Russian Media and Society (11/19/2009)

Legacies of Unification Twenty Years of German Unity (11/20/2009)

The Polish Poster A Visual Metaphor (11/30/2009 - 1/30/2010)

Freedom on the Fence (12/2/2009)

20th Century Tragedies in Eastern Europe (12/4/2009)

Presentation Camp Siberia An introduction to life in Siberia (12/4/2009)

Three Cups of Tea Islam and Schooling in Asia - Islam, Asia, Modernity Professional Development for Educators Workshop (12/8/2009)

Ideology and the Tragedy of East Central Europe in the 20th Century (12/10/2009)

Adapting MOC Curricula to Fight the Crisis and Respond to Country/Regional/Local Needs and Challenges University of Washington and Romanian Experiences (12/14/2009)

The Vanished Empire - a new film by Karen Shakhnarazov (1/7/2010)

The Sun Russian Film (1/8/2010 - 1/14/2010)

The Trouble with Russian Comics Jose Alaniz (1/15/2010)

The Pearl Opera, Serf Theater, and Forbidden Love in Catherine the Greats Russia David Smith (1/21/2010)

Construction and De-Construction of Nations in Central Asia (1/22/2010)

Screening of Goodbye Lenin! (1/28/2010)

H2Asia Asias Water Crisis (2/3/2010)

Afghanistan Forum I The Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Lingual Population of Afghanistan (2/4/2010)

Winter Nights Concert - Rachmaninov vs. Shostakovich (2/5/2010)

Russian Folktales and the Lacquer Boxes they Inspire (2/6/2010)

Film screening and introduction of Beshkempir (2/11/2010)

Human Rights and Sovereign Democracy in Russia (3/3/2010)

The Central European Dimension of the Global Economic Crisis Prospects for Recovery (3/5/2010)

World Languages Day (3/5/2010)

Russian and its Neighbors (3/13/2010)

Annual Novruz Celebration (3/20/2010)

Estonian Literature (4/2/2010)

Migration and the New Citizenship in the EU What the Lisbon Treaty means for Europe (4/2/2010)

The Ukrainian Time Machine (4/2/2010)

Newspapers in Education Asia and the Environment (4/7/2010)

Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (4/9/2010)

Conversations with Pacific Northwest Ballet All Balanchine (4/11/2010)

Lecture on Russian Witchcraft (4/12/2010)

The Prose of Life a book talk (4/12/2010)

Thinking Historically About the Roman Catholic Church (4/13/2010)

Return to Democracy or Constant Crisis? Polish Cinema after 1989 (4/14/2010)

Changing Gender Roles and Relations in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan Girls, Women and Grandmothers (4/15/2010)

16th Annual REECAS Northwest Academic Conference (4/17/2010)

A New Start The Obama-Medvedev Treaty on Reductions of Strategic Nuclear Forces (4/19/2010)

Ethnopolitics in Latvia (4/19/2010)

World War II and Historical Memory in Latvia (4/19/2010)

Baltic Animation Film Program at Seattle Art Museum (4/23/2010)

Poland and the Baltic Republics in the New Century -- a meeting with Dr. Steven Stoltenberg, US State Department (4/23/2010)

A Trip to Nowhere (4/29/2010)

The Place of Music in Afghan Society (4/29/2010)

Azerbaijan Today (4/30/2010)

Tuvan Throat-singing Workshop (5/5/2010)

The Jackson-Vanik Amendment 35 Years Later Reflections on a Conference at the Kennan Institute (5/6/2010)

22nd Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies Environmental Issues in Central/Inner Asia (5/8/2010)

The Donald Treadgold Memorial Lecture - The Future of Disbelief Religion and Secularization in Soviet Borderlands (5/12/2010)

Is Social Memory a Useful Category of Historical Analysis for Russian and other Historians? (5/14/2010)

Draculas Shadow - The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution (5/15/2010)

Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights in Russia Global Focus Lecture Series (5/18/2010)

Market Economics and International Socialism from Belgrade to Chicago and Santiago (5/18/2010)

The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska (5/21/2010)

SPICE Seminar - Baltic Countries (5/22/2010)

Harm is Not Intended The Place of Visible Ethnic Minorities and Immigrants in the Latvian Identity Discourse (5/24/2010)

Kosovo and Current Practices in its Public Sector (5/26/2010)

Round Table on Kyrgyzstan Political Change (5/27/2010)

Roundtable Unrest and Interim Government in Kyrgyzstan (5/27/2010)

Volya Belarussian Archaic Folk Songs (5/31/2010)

Humphrey Fellow Speaker Series - Bolot Bazarbaev of Kyrgyzstan (6/2/2010)

Komiks Comic Art in Russia - a Reading and Book Signing with Author Jose Alaniz (6/2/2010)

Scandinavia and the Baltics (6/2/2010)

Contesting Nature and Nation in Latvia (6/15/2010)

Exploring Musical Traditions of the Silk Road, with special guest musician Omer Turkmenoglu (6/22/2010)

BALSSI Mid-Summer Celebration (6/23/2010)

Uzbekistan Gateway to Central Asia (6/24/2010)

Film Mongolian Cave of Yellow Dog (6/25/2010)

2010 Summer Seminar For Educators - A World of Food Growing it, Shipping it, Selling it (6/28/2010 - 6/29/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Bette Pilav (6/28/2010)

Destiny of the Aral Sea in the Last 50 Years (6/29/2010)

Maria Ogrydziak, Chair of the Board of Directors, U.S.-Baltic Foundation Why Estonia Should Exist (6/29/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Khuushuur (6/30/2010)

On Uyghur Nicknames (7/1/2010)

Film Hungarian Kontrol (7/2/2010)

Celebrating Cyril and Methodius Day (7/5/2010)

New Media, Identity, and Citizenship in Kyrgyzstan (7/6/2010)

Ted Gerber, Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison Caught in Between Citizenship, Identity, and Young Ethnic Russians in Estonia (7/6/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Goulash and Crepes (7/7/2010)

What if anything is Central Eurasia, and Why Does it Matter? (7/8/2010)

Film 10 Conditions of Love (7/9/2010)

Concert Martynas Levickis, Accordionist, in honor of Lithuanias Statehood Day (7/10/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Pakhlava (7/12/2010)

Hip Hop in Uzbekistan (7/12/2010)

Agate Nesaule, Author and Professor Emerita of English and Womens Studies, UW-Whitewater Writing on the Threshold between Cultures (7/13/2010)

Tradition and Symbolism in Kazakh Food (7/13/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Plav (7/14/2010)

Azerbaijani History, Culture, and Traditions (7/15/2010)

Film The Kite Runner (7/16/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Pelmeni (7/19/2010)

Language Policy and Identity in Independent Central Asia and Azerbaijan (7/20/2010)

Vilte Kazlauskaite Archaic Felt and Its Tradition in Lithuania (7/20/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Borani Banjan (7/21/2010)

Zaibas Lithuanian dancers Lithuanian Dance Demonstration and Lesson (7/21/2010)

Afghan Hospitality Concept and Customs (7/22/2010)

Film The Doomed (7/23/2010)

Silk Road Bayram (7/24/2010)

The Singing Revolution Introduction and discussion by Piibi-Kai Kivik (7/26/2010)

Environment, Conservation, and Politics in Central Asia (7/27/2010)

Iveta Grinberga and Mall Pesti The Singing Revolution Discussion and Reflection (7/27/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Duburys, Lithuania 2009 (7/29/2010)

Tajikistan in Pictures (7/29/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Vogelfrei, Latvia 2007, plus two shorts, Baltic Way, Lithuania 1990, and Noroutine, Lithuania 2009 (7/30/2010)

Film Afghan Osama (7/30/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Balkonas, Lithuania 2008 Par dzimteniti Three Men and a Fishpond, Latvia, 2008 Disko ja tuumasda Disco and Atomic War, Estonia 2009 (7/31/2010)

The Uyghurs of China and their Culture (8/2/2010)

Monuments of Hungarian Literature (8/3/2010)

We Were Hippies Too Youth Protest and Lithuanian Nationalism in Kaunas, 1972 (8/3/2010)

Cooking Demonstration Mantu (8/4/2010)

Famous Kazakh Traditions and Their Peculiarities (8/5/2010)

Film Tajik Ovora (8/6/2010)

Turkmen Rug Demonstration (8/10/2010)

REECAS materials and resources dispatched in response to inquiries, curriculum materials and videotapes borrowed from the REECAS Outreach Collection (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

Reecas Website (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

REECAS-NW Electronic Forum (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)

Golden Fleece, Panther Pelt, Rose Revolution Under the Skin of Todays Georgia Exploration Seminar (8/25/2010 - 9/24/2010)

Russian Center 2010 Bazaar (9/25/2010 - 9/26/2010)

Czech Table (9/28/2010 - 6/10/2011)

Zedashe Ensemble Folk Dance Workshop (9/30/2010)

Zedashe Ensemble Georgian Singing Workshop (9/30/2010)

The Art of Freedom (10/1/2010)

Zedashe Ensemble Concert (10/1/2010)

Via Romen Concert (10/2/2010)

Zedashe Ensemble Concert (10/2/2010)

Central Asian Turkic Languages and Culture Circle (10/3/2010 - 6/3/2011)

Russian Language Table (10/8/2010 - 6/8/2011)

Seminar Series -- UW Central Asian Studies Group (10/8/2010 - 6/9/2011)

Fall In-Service Understanding and Teaching Current Events in Russia (10/9/2010)

Central Asian Studies Seminar Impressions of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz I Kyrgyz Elders and the Youth (10/14/2010)

Ellison Center Brown Bag Series Monks, Martyrs, and the Formation of the Armenian Christian Tradition (10/14/2010)

Miss Sarajevo screening and book signing Bill Carter with introduction by Imam Abdullah Polovina (10/14/2010)

Central Asian Studies Seminar Impressions of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz II Kyrgyz Interpretations of the Ethnic Clashes in June 2010 (10/15/2010)

A Night at the Opera with Aleksandra Kurzak (10/16/2010)

Chinggis Khan 1162-1227 His Reign and Continued Presence in Central/Inner Asia (10/21/2010)

Chinggis Khan Mong. Chinggis Haan in Contemporary Mongolian Poetry (10/22/2010)

Autumn Evenings Concert Russian Chamber Music (10/23/2010)

HE Ilhomjon Nematov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to US (10/28/2010)

In the Land of St. Nino Gender, Narrative, and the Christianization of Medieval Georgia (10/28/2010)

Ordo Sakhna, Musical Theater from Kyrgystan (10/28/2010)

Tatar Resistance to Russian Assimilation (10/28/2010)

Travels in Siberia with Ian Frazier (10/31/2010)

Health Care in Russia (11/1/2010)

Polish Film Festival (11/4/2010 - 11/14/2010)

50th Annual Fall Polish Bazaar (11/7/2010)

Tadeusz Drozda Cabaret (11/11/2010)

Israel, Russia and America. View from abroad (11/14/2010)

People from Baku Special Issue (11/14/2010)

Polands Independence Day celebration at the Polish Home (11/14/2010)

Panel Discussion Civic Society and Independent Media in Central Europe 30 Years of the Solidarity Movement in Poland (11/15/2010)

Lake Baikal, Siberia Will industrial development destroy the worlds largest, cleanest lake? (11/16/2010)

Movies The Wedding and The Debt (11/17/2010)

Paper cutting workshop at the Polish Home (11/17/2010)

Ambassador Steven Pifer Twenty-One Months of Reset Where its Working the Challenges that Remain (11/18/2010)

Arms Control Negotiations with Ambassador Pifer (11/18/2010)

The Other Europeans The Semiotic Imperative of Style in Euro Visions by Magnum Photos (11/22/2010)

Camp Siberia Cultural, Historical and Political Lessons for Traveling to Russia (12/4/2010 - 6/25/2011)

Tchaikovskys Queen of Spades performance (12/4/2010)

Alexander Ardakov piano recital (12/5/2010)

Nuclear Central Asia with Dr. Yuldeshev (12/7/2010)

Screening of Irony of Fate Ironiya Sudby (12/9/2010)

Koliada A Celebration of Ukrainian Christmas (12/12/2010)

Evening of Sevdah the love songs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (12/18/2010)

Film Piter FM (1/7/2011)

Prose and Poetry Rounds Chekhov (1/11/2011)

EU Neighborhood Initiatives and Energy Governance in Azerbaijan (1/21/2011)

Lecture Pickled herring, the Prodigal Son, and the Prince of India Theater and Performed Entertainment in Russia late 17th-early 18th century (1/21/2011)

Talk If Wikileaks existed in the 1930s the view from the US Embassy in Latvia (1/26/2011)

Current State of Farming in Kyrgyzstan and Perspectives of Development (1/27/2011)

Lecture Reinvention of Urban Prose Anthology Twelve in the Context of Contemporary Lviv (1/28/2011)

The Conference Room Gallery Presents The Caucasus Mountain Range (1/31/2011)

Slovenian Cultural Day (2/5/2011)

Eastern European Costumes and Textiles at the Henry Art Gallery (2/10/2011)

The Energy Challenge of East Central Europe (2/10/2011)

Treadgold Memorial Lecture Red Autobiographies (2/10/2011)

Global Health Seminar Central Asia Health Systems in Transition (2/11/2011)

The Rurik Expedition Cycles of Accumulation in Russian Overseas Exploration, 1815-1818 (2/15/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Central Asia Land and Peoples (2/19/2011)

REECAS Alumnus Jason Jarrell on Life after REECAS (2/22/2011)

Remembered But Not Commemorated Russian Political Elites on the Anti-Communist Revolution (2/24/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series The Silk Roads Central Asia in the Wider World (2/26/2011)

Maslenitsa (2/27/2011)

Talk Modern Kyrgyz Girls Soviet Actresses and National Heroines (3/2/2011)

Spring In-Service Teaching the Caucasus (3/4/2011)

World Languages Day (3/4/2011)

Zhivagos Children The Russian Intelligencia after Stalin (3/4/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Crafting Culture in Soviet Central Asia Writers, Actors and Ordinary People (3/5/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Religious Pluralism of Central Asia (3/12/2011)

Navruz Celebration (3/19/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Central Asian Nomads Today Musical Storytelling (3/19/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Colorful Ikat Textile Design and Central Asian Aesthetics (3/26/2011)

Networking Reception and Discussion Chernobyl 25 Years Later Lessons Learned? (3/28/2011)

Two Short Lectures on Mongolian Archaeology (3/28/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Womens Work in Central Asia Past and Present (4/2/2011)

Got It Covered? Meet Seattles New Wave of International Journalism (4/8/2011)

Workshop Ukrainian Egg Painting (4/8/2011)

Saturday University Lecture Series Struggles of Central Asia Since Independence (4/9/2011)

Night of Russian and Polish Poetry at the University Branch Library (4/11/2011)

Regional Dynamics in Eurasia a view from Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymonov (4/11/2011)

Azerbaijan A Complex Blend of East and West (4/14/2011)

17th Annual Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Northwest Conference (4/16/2011)

Newspapers in Education Human Rights in Asia (5/4/2011)

Student Panel on Azerbaijan with Consul General of Azerbaijan (5/9/2011)

Auschwitz and the Politics of Memory in Communist Poland (5/19/2011)

Seattle International Film Festival (5/19/2011 - 6/12/2011)

The US-Eastern European Partnership (5/25/2011)

Coping with the dissonant heritage in the planned Soviet towns Visiaginas, Nowa Huta, Tychy, Eisenhuttenstadt (6/6/2011)

The Current Studies of Russia and Eastern Europe in China (6/7/2011)

Summer Seminar for Educators Living History Global Storytelling through Digital Media (6/28/2011 - 6/29/2011)

Post-soviet European countries after 20 years of independence same past, different destinies (6/29/2011)

Camp Siberia 3 weeks of travel in Russia (7/5/2011 - 7/28/2011)

Community Collete Master Teacher Workshop (7/14/2011 - 7/16/2011)

Polish Presidency in the EU opportunities in trade and business development for the Pacific Northwest (7/25/2011)