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Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia

Lecture: Richard Stites, ""The Art of Slavery: How Masters and Serfs Created Russian Culture" ()

Lecture: William Taubman, "Nikita Khrushchev: The Man and His Era" (9/6/2007)

Movie: "First on the Moon," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (9/8/2007)

Movie: "To the Stars by Hard Ways," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (9/8/2007)

Lecture: Margaret Beissinger "Traditional Romani (Gypsy) Musicians and Oral Epic: A Comparison of Performers and Performance" (9/13/2007)

Lecture: Margaret Beissinger, "Identity and Diversity in Romani (Gypsy) Musical Culture" (9/13/2007)

Pre-service teacher training (9/18/2007)

Lecture: Bart Putney, The United States and Poland: A New Special Relationship? (9/20/2007)

Movie: "Planet of Storms," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (9/22/2007)

Movie: "The Heavens Call," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (9/22/2007)

Lecture: George Predescu and Gheorghe Gruia, "Economic Opportunities in Romania" (9/24/2007)

Lecture: George Predescu, "An Ever-Expanding EU: The 2007 Accession of Romania" (9/24/2007)

Pre-service teacher training (9/25/2007)

Lecture: Donald J. Raleigh, Russia's Sputnik Generation: Interviewing Soviet Baby Boomers (9/27/2007)

Lecture: Bart Putney, "Putting Your Major to Work: Jobs with the State Department (9/28/2007)

Lecture: Jane Zavisca, "Housing Divides: The Causes and Consequences of Housing Inequality in Russia" (10/4/2007)

Movie: "Aelita, Queen of Mars," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (10/6/2007)

Movie: "Cosmic Voyage," From the Czars to the Stars: A Journey through Russian Sci-Fi Film (10/6/2007)

Lecture: Boris Kagarlitsky, "Russia's Autocracy and Democratic Tradition: Western Myths and Historic Reality" (10/11/2007)

Lecture: Marcel H. Cornis-Pope, "Writing the History of East-Central European Literary Cultures: Transnational and Comparative Paradigms" (10/19/2007)

Lecture: Victor Friedman, "Balkanology and EUrology: Recent Developments and Future Challenges" (10/25/2007)

Presentation: Toma Longinovic to delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina visiting WI State Legislative Audit Bureau (10/31/2007)

Lecture: Jochen Hellbeck, "The Last Soviet Dreamer: Encounters with Leonid Potemkin" (11/1/2007)

Poetry reading: Elena Shvarts (11/6/2007)

Lecture: Anna Senarslan, "Innovation within Tradition: Women Ashiqs of Azerbaijan" (11/8/2007)

Concert: Kalman Balogh Gypsy Cymbalom Band (11/11/2007)

K-12 Presentation by Kashmira Sheth and Beverley Naidoo at Jessica Doyle's "Reading Day at the Governor's Residence" (11/15/2007)

Lecture: Beverley Naidoo to the Friends of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (11/15/2007)

Lecture: Suren Avanesyan, "Justice Sector Reform in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Case Study from Kosovo" (11/15/2007)

K-12 Workshops: Naomi Shahib Nye presented two poetry workshops at Rufus King High School (11/16/2007)

Conference: 6th Annual International Childrend's Literature celebration, "Open a Book... Open a Door... Open Your Mind... To the World" (11/17/2007)

Radio Broadcast on WPR, "Here on Earth" with Jean Ferraca: Ruth Gruber, "Witness: One of the Great Correspondents" (11/27/2007)

Lecture: Yoshiko Herrera, "Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia" (11/29/2007)

Lecture: Ruth Gruber, "Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story" (12/6/2007)

Movie: "The State Witness," 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/7/2007)

Movie: "What the Sun has Seen?," 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/7/2007)

Movie: "Angelus," 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/8/2007)

Movie: "Testeron," 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/8/2007)

Movie: "Ark," 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/9/2007)

Movie: Andrzej Wajda School Documentary Shorts, 17th Annual Polish Film Festival (12/9/2007)

Lecture: Ted Gerber, "The Putin Generation: Political Views of Russian Youth" (12/13/2007)

Lecture: Brienna Perelli-Harris, "The Decline to Very Low Fertility in Ukraine and Russia" (1/24/2008)

Lecture: Kathryn Hendley, "Talking about Law in Russia" (1/31/2008)

Concert at Elvehjem Elementary School: Zolotoj Plyos, Russian ensemble (2/5/2008)

Concert on UW-Madison Campus: Zolotoj Plyos, Russian ensemble (2/5/2008)

Pre-service teacher training (2/5/2008)

International Studies School Association conference (2/7/2008 - 2/9/2008)

Lecture: David Knuti, "Energy from the Caspian: A New Great Game for Russia, Central Asia, and the World" (2/7/2008)

Pre-service teacher training (2/12/2008)

Radio Broadcast on WORT: "Shoghaken Armenian Ensemble Coming to Madison" (2/13/2008)

Lecture: Heather Sonntag, "Russian Military Photography and Central Asian 'Album-Mania' in the 19th century" (2/14/2008)

Concert at Cesar Chavez Elementary School: Shoghaken Armenian ensemble (2/19/2008)

Concert at East High School: Shoghaken Armenian ensemble (2/19/2008)

Concert at Great Hall, UW-Madison campus: Shoghaken Armenian ensemble (2/20/2008)

Concert at Wingra School: Shoghaken Armenian ensemble (2/20/2008)

Lecture: Virginia Martin, "Kazakh Chinggisids and their Lands under Russian Rule in the 19th Century (2/21/2008)

Lecture: Jane Burbank, Legal Connections: Litigation, Supervision, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial Russia (2/28/2008)

Lecture: Aida Huseynova, "Dmitry Shostakovich and Azerbaijani Music" (3/6/2008)

Conference: "Emerging Powers in the Global System -- Brazil, Russia, India, China" (3/7/2008 - 3/9/2008)

Movie: "California Dreamin'," Romanian Film Festival (3/7/2008)

Movie: Shorts, Romanian Film Festival (3/7/2008)

Audio Transmission of Lecture to UW-Stevens Point: Global Hot Spots Series, Professors Scott Gehlbach and Robert Kaiser on the Russian Presidential Election (3/8/2008)

Lecture: Global Hot Spots Series, Professors Scott Gehlbach and Robert Kaiser on the Russian Presidential Election (3/8/2008)

Movie: "Reenactment," Romanian Film Festival (3/8/2008)

Movie: "The Paper will be Blue," Romanian Film Festival (3/8/2008)

Movie: "The Rest is Silence," Romanian Film Festival (3/8/2008)

Movie: "American Fiancees," Romanian Film Festival (3/8/2008)

Movie: "Exam," Romanian Film Festival (3/9/2008)

Movie: "The Great Communist Bank Robbery," Romanian Film Festival (3/9/2008)

Movie: Shorts, Romanian Film Festival (3/9/2008)

Lecture: Oleksandr Symonenko, "The Treasures of Sarmatian Nobility" (3/13/2008)

Lecture: James Russell, "From Bedros Tourian to Paul Celan: L'Oeuvre au Noir" (3/14/2008)

Radio Broadcast on WORT: "Roksonaki, Kazakh Folk Ensemble in Madison" (3/19/2008)

Presentation: Roksonaki, Kazakh Folk ensemble, in Professor Sarah Atis' class, "Introduction to Turkish Folklore" (3/24/2008)

Presentation: Roksonaki, Kazakh Folk ensemble, in Professor Uli Schamiloglu's class, "Central Asia from the Silk Road to Afghanistan" (3/24/2008)

Concert at John Muir Elementary School: Roksonaki, Kazakh Folk ensemble (3/25/2008)

Concert: Roksonaki, Kazakh Folk ensemble (3/26/2008)

Radio Broadcast on WPR, "Here on Earth" with Jean Ferraca: "Roksonaki Kazakh Folk Ensemble" (3/26/2008)

Lecture: Danielle Berman, "Foreign Fries and Local Lettuce: Paradoxes of Fast Food Supply Strategies in Russia" (3/27/2008)

Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS)/International Education (IE) conference (3/31/2008 - 4/1/2008)

Lecture: William Pridemore, "Increasing Vulnerability: The Homeless, Alcohol, and Mortality in Russia" (4/3/2008)

Lecture: Alena Ledeneva, "How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in Putins Russia (4/4/2008)

K-12 Outreach: "Day in Russia" (4/8/2008)

Lecture: Maral Nurtazina, "Cross-Cultural Communication: Examples from Kazakh, Russian, and American English" (4/17/2008)

Lecture: Ales Brezina, "Introduction to Bohuslav Martinu and Martinu Research" (4/23/2008)

Concert and Lecture: Vladimir Spivakov, Yefim Bronfman, and MSO play Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich, David McDonald lectures on Russian History and Culture and on how these composers and their music were influenced by the climate of their time (4/24/2008)

Lecture: Ales Brezina, "Martinu Institute and its Projects" (4/24/2008)

Lecture: Thomas Allsen, "The Mongol Empire and Alcohol" (4/24/2008)

Movie: "Musime se pomahat" ("Divided We Fall") (4/24/2008)

Lecture: Ales Brezina, "Oral History of Martinu" (4/25/2008)

Movie: "Martinu and the USA" (4/25/2008)

Lecture: Ales Brezina, "Film and Compositions of Ales Brezina" (4/26/2008)

Movie: "Horem Padem" ("Up and Down") (4/26/2008)

Lecture: Ales Brezina, "Ales Brezina's Chamber Opera "Zitra se Bude" ("Tomorrow Will... ) (4/27/2008)

Lecture: Ipek Yosmaoglu, "Ethnographic Maps and the Ethne of Macedonia, 1842-1912" (5/1/2008)

Presentation on Russian Culture at Lindbergh Elementary School, Madison (5/30/2008)

Teacher Workshop: "Islam in Russia and the Newly Independent States." (6/25/2008 - 6/27/2008)

Lecture: "Career and Internship Opportunities with the Foreign Service of the U.S. State Department" (7/2/2008)

Movie: "Belarusian Waltz" (8/5/2008)

Radio Broadcast Conflict in the Caucasus, with Robert Kaiser (8/14/2008)

Radio Broadcast Here on Earth Radio without Borders, Esty Dinur on the Madison World Music Festival (8/18/2008)

Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium, WIOC, Presentation at Neenah In-Service Day for teachers, An Introduction to UW-Madisons Title VI Centers and What They Can Do For You. (8/26/2008)

Lecture Danielle Ross, Our Japanese Brothers Anti-colonialism and Asian-ism Among the Muslims of the Russian Empire (9/4/2008)

Panel Discussion Conflict in the Caucasus A Panel Discussion on Georgia (9/9/2008)

Lecture Russell Zanca, Failure of Independence in Central Asia (9/11/2008)

Radio Broadcast University of the Air, David McDonald, Whos in Control in Russia and Whats Driving Russian Foreign Policy? (9/14/2008)

Concert Kabile, Bulgarian Folk Ensemble (9/18/2008)

Lecture/Demo Kabile, A Survey of Thracian Village Music in Bulgaria (9/18/2008)

Lecture Jennifer Brick, Customary Organizations and the Foundations of State Building in Afghanistan The Role of Maliks, Mullahs, and Jirgas in Local Governance (9/25/2008)

Lecture Sanja Ivkovic, Lay Participation in Judicial Proceedings in East Europe (10/2/2008)

K-12 Teacher Workshop, Brothers Karamazov in Wisconsin (10/6/2008)

Lecture Timothy Colton, Boris Yeltsin and the Puzzle of the Hero in History (10/9/2008)

Mini-Conference for High School Students Day in Central Asia and the Caucasus (10/15/2008)

Lecture Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (10/16/2008)

Lecture/Reading, Alexander Hemon, The Lazarus Project (10/19/2008)

Professional Accreditation Course, PAC, for K-12 teachers in Madison, Environmental and Water Issues Around the Globe (10/21/2008 - 11/25/2008)

Lecture Gulnara Dadabaeva, The Problems of Formation of Cultural Identity in Modern Kazakhstan (10/23/2008)

Lecture John Freedman, Russian Drama and Theatre Today A Time of New Transitions (10/30/2008)

Lecture Tatjana Aleksic, Accidental Dissidents Yugoslav Avant-Gardes and Social Realism (11/6/2008)

Radio Broadcast University of the Air, David McDonald on Catherine the Great (11/9/2008)

Lecture Marina Sorokina, Within Two Tyrannies Soviet Academic Refugees of World War II (11/13/2008)

Movie Fur, 18th Annual Polish Film Festival (11/21/2008)

Movie Louises Garden, 18th Annual Polish Film Festival (11/21/2008)

Presentations to K-12 students and teachers by international childrens authors Meshack Asare, Bodil Bredsdorff, Cynthia Kadohata, and Margarita Engle at Reading Day at the WI Governors Residence (11/21/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation Patrick Michelson, Creating the Modern Religious Self Neo-Patristic Anthropology in the Moscow Spiritual Academy (11/22/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation Andrew Spencer, Panel Discussant Creating East European and Eurasian Digital Repositories Archiving for Presentation and Access (11/22/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation Judith Kornblatt, Panel Chair, Russian Avant-Garde Representations of Femininity (11/22/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation Kathryn Hendley, Panel Discussant, Legal Culture in the Former Soviet Union (11/22/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation Ted Gerber, Panel Discussant, Migration and Gender in the Caucasus (11/22/2008)

Conference for K-12 teachers and librarians 7th Annual International Childrens Literature celebration, Open a BookOpen a DoorOpen Your MindTo the World (11/22/2008)

Movie Absolute Beginner, 18th Annual Polish Film Festival (11/22/2008)

Movie All Will Be Well, 18th Annual Polish Film Festival (11/22/2008)

AAASS Conference Presentation, Ipek Yosmaoglu, Panel Discussant, The Politics of Violence in Macedonia (11/23/2008)

Lecture Michel Guillot, Explaining the Russian Mortality Paradox (12/4/2008)

Lecture Jennifer Tishler, Bucky on Baikal A Trans-Siberian Adverture with the WAA (12/11/2008)

Lecture Melvin Goodman, Americas Russia Problem A Russia Policy for the Obama Administration (1/22/2009)

Radio Broadcast Here on Earth Radio without Borders, Uli Schamiloglu, How President Obama might best reach out to Muslims (1/22/2009)

Lecture Parvin Ahanchi, The Nobel Brothers Oil Producing Company Managing Ethnic Relations in the first Oil Boom of Azerbaijan (1/29/2009)

Lecture Michael Kuban, Putting Your Major to Work Fostering International Dialog through Exchange Programs (2/5/2009)

Career Talk Lunch with Michael Kuban, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State (2/6/2009)

K-12 Teacher Workshop, Brothers Karamazov in Wisconsin (2/9/2009)

Mini-Course, Introduction to Russian Orthodox Art and Architecture, offered by UW-Madison Continuing Education (2/11/2009 - 2/25/2009)

Lecture Gerald Easter, The Russian State in the Time of Putin (2/12/2009)

Lecture Matthew Murray, Building the Rule of Law and Corporate Governance in Russia The Unfinished Struggle (2/19/2009)

Lecture and Exhibit UW-Madison history professor emeritus Alfred Senn discussing the work of Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Ciurlionis and Ciurlionis poster exhibit at Madison Public Library (2/23/2009)

Movie and Discussion Khatyn, moderated by Milan Hauner (2/24/2009)

Movie Crossing Dates, 3rd Annual Madsion Romanian Film Festival (2/26/2009)

Round Table Discussion Carmel Capati, Eric Ibele, David Miller, Languages and Law (2/26/2009)

School Visit grad student Brian Johnson to Lodi High to discuss Russian culture and Dostoevsky (2/26/2009)

Movie Tache, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/27/2009)

Movie Day Bar and Other Stories, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/27/2009)

Movie Sequences, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/28/2009)

Movie Elevator, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/28/2009)

Movie Exchange, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/28/2009)

Movie Shorts, 3rd Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival (2/28/2009)

Lecture Alexei Trochev, Political Competition and Judicial Disempowerment in Ukraine (3/5/2009)

Radio Broadcast WI Public Radios University of the Air, Matthew Murray,The Rule of Law and Corporate Governance in Russia (3/8/2009)

K-12 Outreach International Day at Elm Lawn Elementary School, Middleton, WI (3/12/2009)

Lecture Katia Levintova,Growing Up in Yeltsins Russia The Attitudes of Pro-Kremlin Youth Toward the 1990s (3/12/2009)

Conference Wisconsin Council for the Social Sciences WCSS and International Education Conference IEC, Global Challenges and Changes (3/16/2009 - 3/17/2009)

WCSS/IEC Conference Presentation, Mark Copelovitch, Global Dimensions of the World Economic Crisis (3/16/2009)

WCSS/IEC Conference Presentation, Nancy Heingartner and Sarah Ripp, An Introduction to WIOC Resources and Opportunities for Teachers at the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (3/16/2009)

WCSS/IEC Conference Presentation, Tim ODriscoll, Free Trade of Goods and Services What Every Teacher Should Know (3/16/2009)

Lecture Ivan Grdesic, Croatia Catching up with Europe (3/25/2009)

Lecture Peter Blitstein, Imagining a Soviet Nation? The History of the USSR as a National Discourse, 1930s-1950s (3/26/2009)

Movie Kosh ba kosh, Central Asian Film Series (3/26/2009)

Movie The Orator, Central Asian Film Series (3/27/2009)

Movie Beshkempir, Central Asian Film Series (3/30/2009)

K-12 student conference The Brothers Karamazov in Wisconsin (4/1/2009)

Lecture Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, A Translators Surprises (4/1/2009)

Radio Broadcast In Our Backyard on WORT, The Silk Road Ensemble Comes to Madison (4/1/2009)

Concert at Lindbergh Elementary School, Madison, Silk Road Ensemble (4/2/2009)

Public Concert, UW-Madison campus, Silk Road Ensemble (4/2/2009)

Lecture Jeff Sahadeo, Being Black in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia Identity, Adaptation, and Racism (4/9/2009)

Lecture Marko Zivkovic, Fica, Trabi and Dyana Little Cars that Make Us Laugh and Cry (4/16/2009)

Concert Russian Folk Orchestra Annual Spring Concert (4/19/2009)

Conference HIV/AIDS in Eurasia Regional and Comparative Perspectives, University of Texas-Austin (4/20/2009 - 4/21/2009)

World Languages Day Presentation Jambul Akkaziev, Advertising in Russia (4/20/2009)

World Languages Day Presentation Jennifer Tishler, Russian Fairytales (4/20/2009)

World Languages Day Presentation Anna Tumarkin, How Learning Russian Can Help Your Career (4/20/2009)

World Languages Day Presentation, Rachel Weiss and Nancy Heingartner, Internationlize Your Curriculum A Toolbox from UW-Madison (4/20/2009)

Lecture Leonid Baskin, Conservation of Indigenous Cultures in Siberia through the Restoration of Reindeer Husbandry (4/22/2009)

Lecture Nicolai Petro,The Legal Case for Russias Intervention in Georgia (4/23/2009)

Lecture Yoshiko Herrera, Transforming Bureaucracy Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia (4/24/2009)

Lecture Randall Poole, Freedom of Conscience in Russian Philosophical Liberalism The Controversy over Vladimir Solovev (4/30/2009)

Lecture Brian G. Williams, The Forgotten Wars Overview of the Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (5/7/2009)

Lecture Holly Case, Right-Wing Federation Schemes in East-Central Europe during World War II (5/7/2009)

Poetry Reading Mikhail Kozakov, From Pushkin to Brodsky (5/25/2009)

Mini-Course, Introduction to Russian Orthodox Art and Architecture in the UW-Extension Program College Days, taught by Jennifer Tishler (6/4/2009)

Film The Singing Revolution (6/16/2009)

BALSSI field trip to Estonian House Eesti Majain Riverwoods, IL (6/20/2009)

Annual CREECA Teacher Workshop, Looking Forward, Looking Back Causes and Consequences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (6/22/2009 - 6/26/2009)

Lecture Robert Kaiser, Post-Soviet Borderlands as Diaspora Spaces The Case of Setomaa (6/23/2009)

Film The Waterfowl People and The Winds of the Milky Way (6/30/2009)

Lecture Alfred Senn, What is Lithuania? (7/7/2009)

SUMMIT WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA in Moscow Ted Gerber and Mark Johnson in a round-table discussion on how to build a stronger civil society (7/7/2009)

Film Kurpe (7/8/2009)

Presentation Nancy Heingartner and Laura Weigl at Special Olympics Wisconsin at their Monona Office in preparation of the arrival of their summer intern from Russi (7/9/2009)

Film Balkonas (7/14/2009)

Lecture Rudra Dundzila, A Poplar Stoof by the Road A Sojourn with Baltic Myths, Songs, and Spirituality (7/21/2009)

Dance Demo/Master Class with Zaibas Lithuanian Dancers (7/23/2009)

Radio Broadcast Here on Earth with Jean Feraca featuring Ted Gerber on his participation in the Obama-Medvedev Summit (7/23/2009)

Lecture Paulis Lazda, The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia (7/28/2009)

Film Kevade (7/29/2009)

Films The Best Waterpieces Ever Latvian Shorts (8/5/2009)

Azra Hromadzic, No Mans Land Youth, Education, and Democratization in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina (9/3/2009)

Photography Exhibit Michael Forster Rothbart, After Chernobyl (9/3/2009 - 10/30/2009)

David Bachman, China, Russia, and North Korea Post-Socialistm Transitions and the Military (9/10/2009)

6th Annual Madison World Music Festival, David Pederson - Tuvan throat singing (9/16/2009)

6th Annual Madison World Music Festival, Sergei Belkin, Accordionist (9/16/2009)

Parno Grazst, Roma band from northeast Hungary (9/17/2009)

6th Annual Madison World Music Festival, Hanggai, traditional Mongolian music (9/19/2009)

Rawi Abdelal, The Rise of Gazprom Profits and Politics (9/24/2009)

Jonas Bendiksen, Satellites Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union, (9/25/2009 - 11/10/2009)

Maria Belodubrovskaya, Banned Films Soviet Cinema under Stalin and the Failure of Power (10/1/2009)

Jolly Fellows/Vesyolye Rebyata (10/3/2009)

Hon. Petr Kolar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States, Challenges and Opportunities in the European-American Partnership A Czech Perspective (10/6/2009)

Alexander Diener, One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolias Kazakhs (10/8/2009)

Reception for Jonas Bendiksens Satellites Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union (10/9/2009)

Circus / Tsirk (10/10/2009)

Jeff Sheffy, Combining the Peace Corps and Graduate School (10/10/2009)

Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company (10/14/2009)

Anna Frajlich, Between Dawn and the Wind Readings from poets collections in both Polish and English. (10/15/2009)

Global Hot Spots Lecture Series Ted Gerber, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (10/15/2009)

Anna Frajlich, The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska (10/16/2009)

Outreach Trip Nancy Heingartner and Alec Luhn to Chippewa Falls High School where 10 of the student body studies Russian (10/16/2009)

Red Hollywood Film Series Volga-Volga (10/17/2009)

Danielle Berman From the Dacha to the Drive-thru Food Production and Consumption in Contemporary Russia (10/19/2009)

Discussion with Slavic department graduate students Olga Kagan on teaching Russian to heritage speakers (10/19/2009)

Olga Kagan, The Heritage Language Learner Identities, Language Loyalties and Challenges (10/19/2009)

Petra Couvee,The Dutch Connection Doctor Zhivago in The Netherlands (10/22/2009)

Red Hollywood Film SeriesShining Path / Svetlyi Put (10/24/2009)

Mikhail Shishkin, Contemporary Russian Writers Between the Market and the Last Judgment (10/26/2009)

Anders slund, How Capitalism was Built The Transformation of Eastern Europe, Russia,and Central Asia (10/29/2009)

Conference Presentation at annual conference of the Association of WI School Administrators, Nancy Heingartner, Internationalizing the K-12 Curriculum with the help of the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (10/29/2009)

Jonathan Addleton, US-Mongolia Relations Looking Forward, Looking Back (10/29/2009)

Nicole Kraus, Prejudice and Human Rights in Russia (10/29/2009)

Networking Session with elementary school administrators at annual conference of the Association of WI School Administrators (10/30/2009)

Erin Crawley and Jennifer Tishler on Funding Resources for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (11/3/2009)

Agns Kefeli-Clay, Tatar Spiritual Songs and Death Rituals (11/5/2009)

The Wall Came Down On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The 42nd Wisconsin Workshop (11/5/2009 - 11/7/2009)

Liudas Mockunas, Lithuanian Jazz Saxophonist and Composer (11/7/2009)

Jennifer Tishler, Russian Fairy Tales (11/18/2009)

Karen Evans-Romaine, Write Your Name and Say Hell in Russian! (11/18/2009)

Katie Wirka, Czech Language, History and Culture To Know Another Language Means to Live Another Life (11/18/2009)

Rachel Weiss and Catherine Reiland, Internationalize Your Curriculum A Toolbox from UW-Madison (11/18/2009)

Konstantin Sonin, Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments (11/19/2009)

Konstantin Sonin, Russias Resource Curse (11/19/2009)

19th Annual Polish Film Festival How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh?, (11/20/2009)

19th Annual Polish Film FestivalSnow White and Russian Red (11/20/2009)

Presentations for K-12 teachers and students by Rachna Gilmore, Sylviane Diouf, and James Rumford at Jessica Doyles Reading Day at the Governors Residence (11/20/2009)

WPR Veronica Rueckert Toma Longinovic, Vampires in Films and Literature (11/20/2009)

19th Annual Polish Film Festival Little Moscow (11/21/2009)

19th Annual Polish Film Festival Scratch (11/21/2009)

8th Annual International Childrens Literature celebration, Open a BookOpen a DoorOpen Your MindTo the World (11/21/2009)

19th Annual Polish Film Festival The Miracle Seller (11/22/2009)

Lodi High School International Day, Katie Wirka, Life and Travels in the Czech Republic (11/24/2009)

Lodi High School International Day, Introduction to Lithuanian Dance, Zaibas Lithuanian Dancers (11/24/2009)

Anna Krylova, A Portrait of a Soviet Woman as the Citizen Soldier Theoretical and Interpretive Challenges from the Eastern Front (12/3/2009)

Robert Kaiser, Estonias Bronze Night Reassembling the Event (12/10/2009)

Consultation Nancy Heingartner with Al Senn, UW-Madison professor emeritus of history, and Linda Berman, Wisconsin Public Television (12/17/2009)

CREECA Information Table at Teaching Academy Retreat, Internationalizing the Curriculum, sponsored by UW-Madisons International Institute (1/14/2010)

Mark Johnson, Soviet Legacies and the Transformation of the Research University in Russia Today (1/21/2010)

Networking with Meg Hamel, organizer of the Wisconsin Film Festival (1/25/2010)

Jennifer Barrett Effects of Son Preference on Contraception, Abortion, and Fertility in Central Asia The Case of Uzbekistan (1/28/2010)

Marin Blaevic, Shifting Dramaturgy (2/4/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/9/2010)

Venelin Ganev, Post-Accession Hooliganism Bulgaria and Romania in the EU (2/11/2010)

Zaibas Lithuanian Dance Troupe at Waunakee High Schools Culture Week (2/11/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/13/2010)

Kyle Marquardt at McFarland High, Whats Going on in Russia Today (2/15/2010)

Lithuanian Independence Day (2/16/2010)

Allan Reid, Apocalypse, Eschatology, and Belief The Trajectory of Religious Motifs in Gorbanevskaias Poetry (2/18/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/18/2010)

Visiting Delegation from Turkmenistan for the Cochran Fellowship Program in Animal Breeding (2/19/2010 - 3/6/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/20/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/21/2010)

Andrea Lanoux, Developments in Russian Childrens Literature after 1991 Genres, Imports, and New Russian Plots (2/25/2010)

Police, Adjective Romania (2/26/2010)

Ted Gerber on WI Public Television, University Place 357, Russia Update Issues and Challenges (2/28/2010)

Brian Porter-Szucs, The Ecclesia Militans and the Catholic Nation in Modern Poland (3/4/2010)

Question and Answer meeting with Yerbol Orynbayev, Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Kazakhstan (3/4/2010)

Wisconsin Worldview and the Badgers Abroad Blog reprinted two articles from CREECAs most recent newsletter, Interviewing Human Rights Experts in Moscow and Foreign Relations through Education Alum Returns With a Specialty in Russian Educational Policy. (3/9/2010)

Pricilla Hunt, The Life of Andrew the Fool Poetics as the Path to Knowledge in Byzantino-Russian Tradition (3/10/2010)

Laurence Senelick, Anton Chekhov The Ups and Downs of a Playwrights Reputation (3/11/2010)

Russian Folk Orchestra performs at World Languages Day for the Community (3/13/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival The New Wave of the Romanian Cinema (3/18/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film FestivalPolice, Adjective (3/18/2010)

Paul Valliere, Patriarchy, Oligarchy, and Sobornost in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church (3/18/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival The Happiest Girl in The World (3/19/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival The Other Irene (3/19/2010)

Demonstrate Lithuanian folk dance at International Festival at Van Hise Elementary (3/19/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Fox Hunter (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Hooked (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Lifes Hard (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Olis Wedding (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Renovation (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film Festival Wedding in Bassarabia (3/20/2010)

4th Annual Madison Romanian Film FestivalBric-Brac (3/20/2010)

K-12 Outreach Day in East and Central Europe (3/24/2010)

Cynthia Werner, Bride Abduction in Post-Soviet Central Asia Marking a Shift Towards Patriarchy through Local Discourses of Shame and Tradition (3/25/2010)

Jonathan Bolton, Legends of the Underground Ivan Jirous, Egon Bondy, and the Prehistory of Czech Dissent (4/8/2010)

Adam Stulberg, Eurasian Security Dilemmas Russias Energy Statecraft and the Contours of the Great Game Redux (4/14/2010)

WI Film Festival, The Happiest Girl in the World (4/14/2010)

Elyor Karimov, Islamic court in documentation and traditions Excursus to Medieval Central Asia (4/15/2010)

WI Film Festival, Cooking History (4/15/2010)

WI Film Festival, The Happiest Girl in the World (4/15/2010)

WI Film Festival Police, Adjective (4/16/2010)

WI Film Festival, The Bug Trainer (4/16/2010)

WI Film Festival, The Desert of Forbidden Art (4/16/2010)

Zolotoj Plyos concert at McFarland High School (4/16/2010)

Zolotoj Plyos, Russian folk trio (4/16/2010)

WI Film Festival, Shameless (4/17/2010)

WI Film Festival, Ward No. 6 (4/17/2010)

WI Film Festival, Police, Adjective (4/18/2010)

WI Film Festival, Svetlana about Svetlana (4/18/2010)

Film Screening and Discussion with Milan Hauner, Katyn (4/21/2010)

Robert Bird,Technology and Vision in Tarkovskys Andrei Rublev (4/22/2010)

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin and his Team A New Look at Stalinist High Politics (4/22/2010)

Film Andrei Rublev (4/23/2010)

Conference, Laws Locations Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies, Marina Kurkchiyan, Law as A Social Construct Cross-National Comparison (4/26/2010)

Tanya Richardson, Kaleidoscopic Odessa History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine (4/29/2010)

Ann Komaromi, Samizdat Material Texts and Imagined Communities (5/5/2010)

Jennifer Utrata, The Difference a Babushka Makes The Relative Success of Single-Mother Families in Russia (5/6/2010)

Round Table Discussion Language for Life Careers in Translation and Interpretation (5/7/2010)

Celebration Victory in Europe 65 Years Later (5/8/2010)

Concert Annual concert of University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra with Yid Vicious klezmer band (5/8/2010)

Informal Tea and Discussion with visiting Open World delegation of physicians and hospital administrators from Moldova (5/25/2010)

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

Town Hall Meeting on Chernobyl with Ukrainian experts who live and work in the contaminated territories (6/17/2010)

Celebration Ivan Kupala Day (6/19/2010)

Baltic Studies Summer Institute BALSSI Midsummer Celebration (6/23/2010)

K-12 Outreach College for Kids course From Babushka to Blinis, An Introduction to Russian Language and Culture for fifth-graders (6/28/2010 - 7/8/2010)

K-12 Teacher Workshop Nonviolent Civic Action around the World (6/28/2010 - 6/29/2010)

BALSSI Lecture Maria Ogrydziak, Why Estonia Should Exist (6/29/2010)

BALSSI Media Outreach University of the Air taping of Maria Ogrydziak lecture, Why Estonia Should Exist. (6/29/2010)

BALSSI Lecture Ted Gerber, Caught in Between Citizenship, Identity, and Young Ethnic Russians in Estonia (7/6/2010)

BALSSI Concert Martynas Levickis,Lithuanian Accordion Virtuoso (7/10/2010)

BALSSI Lecture Agate Nesaule, Writing on the Threshold between Cultures (7/13/2010)

BALSSI Lecture Vilte Kazlauskait, Lithuanian felting History and practice (7/20/2010)

BALSSI Dance Recital/Demo with aibas Lithuanian Dancers (7/21/2010)

BALSSI Field Trip Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture and Grand Dukes Lithuanian Restaurant (7/25/2010)

BALSSI The Singing Revolution Discussion and Reflection (7/27/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Duburys Vortex (7/29/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Vogelfrei plus two short films (7/30/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Balkonas Balcony (7/31/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Disko ja tuumasda Disco and Atomic War (7/31/2010)

Baltic Film Festival Par dzimteniti Three Men and a Fishpond (7/31/2010)

BALSSI Lecture Amanda Swain,We Were Hippies Too Youth Protest and Lithuanian Nationalism in Kaunas, Lithuania 1972 (8/3/2010)

Kids Activity Table at Concerts on the Square featuring the music of Russian composers (8/4/2010)

Henry Gaffney, NATO and Russia Lost Opportunities for Establishing a New TransAtlanticEurAsian Security Outlook and Dialogue (9/2/2010)

Michael Reynolds, Ottoman and Russian Muslims in the Twilight of Empire the Politics of the Caucasian and Anatolian Borderlands in the early 20th Century (9/9/2010)

Veljko Vujacic, Nationalism, Myth, and Politics Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (9/16/2010)

Anna from Six to Eighteen (9/22/2010)

Mahala Rai Banda gypsy band (9/23/2010)

Mahala Rai Banda gypsy band (9/23/2010)

Celebration of F.Chopins musical roots and inspirations (9/30/2010)

Andrei Codrescu on Jean Feracas WPR show, Here on Earth (10/4/2010)

Andrei Codrescu on Matt Rothschilds Progressive Radio (10/4/2010)

Classroom Visit Andrei Codrescu with Tony Michels The American Jewish Experience class (10/4/2010)

Meeting with Students Andrei Codrescu Talks with Participants in Chadbourne Residential College (10/4/2010)

Public Lecture Andrei Codrescu, Swimming between Languages Learning English by Osmosis and Other Adventures (10/4/2010)

Alexander Martynov, From Sputnik to Mars the History and Politics of Modern Space Travel (10/7/2010)

Pre-service Teacher Outreach International Resource Fair (10/12/2010)

Dance for Ukraine, sponsored by Friends of Chernobyl Centers U.S. FOCCUS (10/14/2010)

Jeffrey Kahn,The Case of Colonel Abel What the Prosecution of a Master Soviet Spy Teaches about American and Russian Criminal Justice (10/14/2010)

Jeffrey Kahn,The Case of Colonel Abel What the Prosecution of a Master Soviet Spy Teaches about American and Russian Criminal Justice to the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (10/14/2010)

Kelly McCann, Grand Plans and Petty Corruption Adapting to Market Reform in Central Asia (10/21/2010)

Alexander Levitsky, Russia and Orientalism The Case of G. R. Derzhavin (10/22/2010)

Dan Davidson, Developing Superior Proficiency at the Undergraduate Level The Language Flagship (10/26/2010)

Lecture Dr. Irakli Iakobashvili Archivist of the Parliament of Georgia (10/27/2010)

Movie Night Watch (10/27/2010)

Russian Flagship Workshop with Dan Davidson, Time-on-Task, and Language Use in Arabic and Russian Overseas Flagship Programs (10/27/2010)

Artemii Troitsky, The History of Rock in Russia (10/28/2010)

Artemii Troitsky, A Conversation in Russian with Artemii Troitsky (10/29/2010)

Meeting with Community Group A Conversation with Artemii Troitsky (10/29/2010)

Matt Taibbi journalist, My Life in Hell Moral and Psychological Perils of the Factory Journalism Business (11/1/2010)

Lauren McCarthy, Trafficking Injustice Russian Law Enforcements Response to Human Trafficking (11/4/2010)

Lunchtime Discussion with Maria Lipman Carnegie Moscow Center (11/11/2010)

Maria Lipman,A Non-Participation Pact State and Society in Russia (11/11/2010)

Stathis Kalyvas Yale, Did Marxism Make a Difference? Marxist Rebellions and National Liberation Movements (11/12/2010)

Mark Bassin, Stalinist Landscapes Politics, Identity, and Nature in Socialist-Realist Art (11/15/2010)

Mini-conference Ethnicity, Identity, and Emigration from the Regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (11/16/2010)

K-12 Outreach World Languages Day mini-conference, Katie Wirka, Czech Language, History and Culture To Know Another Language Means to Live Another Life (11/17/2010)

Movie Tulip (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Dianna Murphy, Writing Around the World (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Jambul Akkaziev, Advertising in Russia (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Jennifer Tishler, etc., Thirty Languages in Forty Minutes (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Karen Evans-Romaine, Write Your Name and Say Hello in Russian! (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Marzhan Arenova, What Do You Know About Kazakhstan? (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Rachel Weiss and Catherine Reiland, Internationalize Your Curriculum A Toolbox from UW-Madison (11/17/2010)

World Languages Day mini-conference, Zaibas Lithuanian Dance Troupe, An Introduction to Lithuanian Dance (11/17/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Irina Shevelenko, The Russo-Japanese War and the Modernist Negotiation of Russian Identity (11/18/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Katia Levintova, Higher Education and Sovereign Democracy Political Socialization and Elite Recruitment in Contemporary Russia (11/18/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Kevin Kain, Discussant, Fractionalism in Traditional Russian Communities Case Studies of Old Believers and Molokans (11/18/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Matthew McGarry, Tolstoy and Grossman Writing and Reading War and Peace in the 19th and 20th Centuries panel (11/18/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Nicholas Rampton, A Russian Nationalism Dostoevskys Response to the Russo-Turkish War (11/18/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Victoria Kononova, Two Fatal Flights of the Russian Eagle Alexander Herzen of the Crimean War, the Polish Question, and the Cycles of History (11/18/2010)

Conference Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Yoshiko Herera, Discussant, Communist Legacies and Post-Communist Justice panel (11/18/2010)

20th Annual Polish Film Festival, War and Love (11/19/2010)

20th Annual Polish Film Festival, Zero (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, David McDonald, Empire-State? New Perspectives on Statehood in the Russian Empire roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Amanda Murphy, Preposterous Anecdotes or Keys to Pushkins Soul? A Biographical Analysis of Mistress into Maid and The Blizzard (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Andrew Reynolds, Discussant, Intersections of Life and Art in Pushkins Works panel (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Danielle Berman, Development and Inequality in Rural Russia roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, David Bethea, Pushkin and the Art-Life Connection What is a Fact? (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, David McDonald, Discussant, Politics and Governance in Imperial Russias Borderlands panel (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Emily Shaw, Late Tolstoy Roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Fran Hirsch, Discussant, Talking about Nationalism Again panel (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Gwen Walker, Chair, Navigating the Peer Review Process roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Judith Kornblatt, Chair, Rethinking Russian Religious Thought roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Maria Belodubrovskaya, The Failure of the Iron Scenario Script Writing in Stalinist Cinema (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Molly Blasing, Intersections of Photography and Literature roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Patrick Michelson, Rethinking Russian Religious Thought roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Sally Kent, Community Studies Antidote to National History roundtable (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Sarah Kapp, Into the Distance Issues of Voice, Prosodic Space, and Temporal Tension in Bloks Beautiful Lady and Unknown Woman (11/19/2010)

Annual ASEEES Conference in Los Angeles, Victoria Thorstensson, Turgenevs Novel at the Intersection of Literature and Journalism Virgin Soil and the Trial of the Fifty (11/19/2010)

K-12 Presentations by Truong Tran, Laura Resau, and Ted and Betsy Lewin at Jessica Doyles Reading Day at the Governors Residence (11/19/2010)

20th Annual Polish Film Festival, Lullaby (11/20/2010)

20th Annual Polish Film Festival, The Swing (11/20/2010)

Conference International Childrens and Young Adult Literature Celebration (11/20/2010)

20th Annual Polish Film Festival, Little Rose (11/21/2010)

K-12 outreach Lodi High Schools International Week, Anna Grelson, Intro to Russia (11/23/2010)

K-12 outreach Lodi High Schools International Week, Fatima Sartbaeva on Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (11/23/2010)

K-12 outreach Lodi High Schools International Week, Katie Wirka on Czech language and study abroad in the Czech Republic (11/23/2010)

Lecture Eva Csato, The Turkic Karaim Communities History, Confession, and Language (11/23/2010)

UW-Madison Russian Folk Orchestra pre-holiday concert (11/27/2010)

FLAS info session led by Csanad Siklos and Catherine Reiland (12/1/2010)

MUNKH-OCHIR DORJJUGDER Brookings Institute, Same Rules, New Dimensions for Mongolias National SecurityAdapting to the New Geo-Economic Environment (12/1/2010)

Anna Paretskaya New School for Social Research, The Politics of Smallest Things How the Lazy, Cowardly, and Selfish Changed the Soviet Union (12/2/2010)

Community Outreach Iowa county all-community read program Greg Mortensens Stones into Schools Rehman and Aliya Khan provide an introduction to Afghanistan (12/2/2010)

Senior Citizen Outreach Al Senn, FINDING A LITHUANIAN TREASURE IN MADISON (12/6/2010)

Open World Delegation Russian K-12 Teachers (12/7/2010)

Movie The Irony of Fate, Part II (12/8/2010)

Lecture Katya Favretto UW-Madison, Does Ethnicity Matter? Conflict Resolution and Ethnic Pluralism (12/9/2010)

Community Outreach Iowa county all-community read program Greg Mortensens Stones into Schools Rehman Khan leads a discussion on U.S.-Afghan relations (1/16/2011)

University Outreach Conversation with Tanya Lokshina (1/19/2011)

Lecture Tanya Lokshina Human Rights Watch, Inspiring Official Rhetoric and Rampant Abuses in Russia (1/20/2011)

Community Outreach Annual Folk Ball Festival (1/21/2011 - 1/23/2011)

Community Outreach Being Harold Pinter A Dramatic Reading, Directed by Andy Wiginton, Adapted and directed by Vladimir Shcherban and produced by Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Kolida. (1/27/2011)

Keith Darden, Imperial Legacies and Contemporary Loyalties in Post-Communist Europe (1/27/2011)

Lunch with students Keith Darden Yale meets with graduate students (1/27/2011)

Community Outreach Friday Night at the Movies The Kite Runner, showing and discussion (1/28/2011)

Kelly Wendland, Decentralized Governance and Logging An Econometric Analysis in European Russia (2/3/2011)

Community Outreach Iowa county all-community read program Greg Mortensens Stones into Schools Aaliya Bibi, Afghan Women--Facts and Myths (2/13/2011)

K-12 Outreach professional development workshop, Folk and Fairy Tales from around the World (2/15/2011 - 3/15/2011)

Lithuanian Independence Day celebration, Nancy Heingartner My Grandparents Kaunas Searching for the 1920s in 2010 (2/17/2011)

Lunch and Learn Discussion with Oxana Shevel (2/17/2011)

Oxana Shevel, The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine. (2/17/2011)

Discussion in Russian with Oxana Shevel (2/18/2011)

Anna Tumarkin, Russian feuilleton (2/24/2011)

Brown Bag Lecture Dr. Balasubramaniam Murali, Development Challenges in Afghanistan (2/24/2011)

Dr. Balasubramaniam Murali, Global Progress Report on the UN Millennium Development Goals (2/24/2011)

Lecture Dr. Balasubramaniam Murali, Your Future with the UN A Career Talk (2/24/2011)

Brown Bag Lecture Dr. Balasubramaniam Murali, Health Challenges and Their Impact on the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific Region (2/25/2011)

Winson Chu, Jewish Ghetto or Europes Cradle? Selective Cosmopolitanism in Lodz and German-Polish Reconciliation (3/2/2011)

Darya Khitrova, Love as Device Literary Techniques and the Culture of Courtship in Nineteenth-Century Russia (3/3/2011)

Community Outreach International Festival at the Overture Center, Russian Folk Orchestra (3/5/2011)

Community Outreach International Festival at the Overture Center, Zaibas Lithuanian dancers (3/5/2011)

Concert Klezmer Four (3/5/2011)

Movie Admiral (3/9/2011)

K-12 Outreach International Day at Elm Lawn elementary school--Lithuania table and Kyrgyzstan table (3/10/2011)

Thomas Garza, Of Macho and Men Russian and Latino Heroes in Contemporary Film (3/11/2011)

Art Exhibition Holy Image, Sacred Presence Russian Icons 1500 1900, Chazen Museum, Mayer Gallery (3/12/2011 - 6/5/2011)

Community Outreach Concert by Michail Sherbakov (3/13/2011)

Community Outreach The Afghan Nowruz Festival with Dr. Aaliya Bibi (3/13/2011)

Student Outreach Nouruz celebration for Russian Flagship students featuring Gulnara Seipuldinova, visiting Kazakh scholar (3/23/2011)

Benjamin Frommer Northwestern, How Czech Fascists, Prague Bureaucrats and the Local Police Helped the Nazis to Isolate the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia (3/24/2011)

David Giffey, Eastern Orthodox Icons Venerable Paintings and their Makers, (3/24/2011)

Hon. John Dooley, The Vermont-Karelia Russia Partnership for Legal Reform Reflections on Two Decades of Experience (3/25/2011)

Lecture and Reception Thomas Dale, exhibition curator, Holy Image, Sacred Presence Russian Icons, 1500-1900 (3/25/2011)

Film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv (3/27/2011)

K-12 Outreach World Cinema Day (3/31/2011)

Phillip Kim, Seeking Riches Amid Uncertainty Institutional Incentives for Starting Businesses in Emerging Economies (3/31/2011)

Lecture Robert Harris Revolution and Regime Change in Nineteenth-Century Russia Alexander Herzen and the Doctrine of Personal Transformation (4/5/2011)

Lecture Theodora Dragostinova OSU, Between Home and Homeland Minority Rights and National Dilemmas across the Greek-Bulgarian Border (4/7/2011)

12th UWEC Symposium on East Europe Twenty Years After What We Have Learned and What We Have Failed to Learn (4/8/2011 - 4/9/2011)

M.A. Professionalization Workshop for M.A. Students in REECAS (4/9/2011)

Community Outreach Iowa County Community Reads Celebration of Afghan Culture (4/10/2011)

Lecture U.S. Strategy for South Asia A Contrarian View (4/12/2011)

Brown Bag Luncheon Lecture The Future of Military Operations in Afghanistan and Beyond (4/13/2011)

Lecture Col. T.X. Hammes, War in the 21st Century Organizational Challenges for the US Military Organization (4/14/2011)

Symposium Russian Icons in Context (4/15/2011 - 4/16/2011)

Concert The University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra (4/16/2011)

K-12 Outreach One-Day Teacher Workshop, The Global Marketplace (4/20/2011)

Lecture Paul Wilson, The Wisdom of Crowds Some Reflections on the Velvet Revolution in the Light of the Arab Awakening (4/21/2011)

Lecture Valerie Kivelson, Witches in Russia (4/28/2011)

Symposium Twenty years after the Split, Thirty years after Prishtina, Ten years after Tanushevci Beginnings, Endings, Continuities and Discontinuities in former Yugoslavia and the Successor States. (4/28/2011 - 4/29/2011)

Lecture Manon van de Water, Theatre as Therapy in the Northern Caucasus (5/3/2011)

Movie Ballad of a Soldier (5/4/2011)

66th Anniversary of Victory in World War II (5/7/2011)

Cultural Program Madison Vilnius Sister Cities MVSC Annual Banquet, Al Senn, Passions of Lithuanian Basketball (5/21/2011)

Cultural Program Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute CESSI welcome picnic with traditional Central Eurasian foods (6/11/2011)

Cultural Program BALSSI welcome picnic with traditional Baltic foods (6/12/2011)

Lecture Aiste Zalepuga, History Never Looks Like History When You Are Living through It (6/14/2011)

Cultural Program Ivana Kupala Day Celebration (6/18/2011)

Movie On a Tightrope Xinjiang (6/20/2011)

Lecture Andris Straumanis, The Media in Latvia A View from the Far West (6/21/2011)

Lecture Virginia Martin, Comparing Turki- and Russian-Language Qazaq Letters of the 1820s-1830s as Historical Sources (6/23/2011)

Cultural Program Traditional Baltic Midsummer Celebration with Rich and Lilita Spuris folklorists and Ain Haas, musician (6/24/2011)

K-12 Outreach Teacher Workshop, The History and Culture of Afghanistan (6/27/2011 - 7/1/2011)

Movie White Mountains Kyrgyzstan (6/27/2011)

Lecture Kristine Motivane, The Language Situation in Latvia Trends and Developments (6/28/2011)

Lecture David Dettmann, From Feudal Music to the Peoples National Treasure Muqam in Xinjiang and Central Asia (6/30/2011)

Movie Kurpe The Shoe, Latvia (7/1/2011)

K-12 Outreach College for Kids course on Russian Language and Culture Nancy Heingarter (7/5/2011 - 7/8/2011)

Lecture Daiva Markelis, White Field, Black Sheep A Lithuanian-American Life (7/5/2011)

Lecture Jambul Akkaziev, TURKIC LANGS OF THE CAUCASUS (7/7/2011)

Movie Vai Viegli But Jaunam Is it Easy To Be Young?, Latvia (7/8/2011)

Movie Aksuat Kazakhstan (7/11/2011)

Lecture Robert Kaiser, Estonia and Cyberwar (7/12/2011)

Lecture Uli Schamlioglu, The Pre-Modern Literary Culture of Central Asia (7/14/2011)

Movie Balkonas The Balcony, Lithuania (7/15/2011)

Community Outreach Collaboration with Madisons Sundance Cinemas, Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard from Londons National Theatre (7/16/2011)

Community Outreach QandA/Discussion led by Manon van de Water after presentation of The Cherry Orchard (7/16/2011)

Community Outreach Collaboration with Madisons Sundance Cinemas, Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard from Londons National Theatre (7/18/2011)

Community Outreach QandA/Discussion led by Manon van de Water after presentation of The Cherry Orchard (7/18/2011)

Movie Daughter-in-Law Turkmenistan (7/18/2011)

Lecture Dan Burghart, Wandering through the Baltics A Wayfarers Views over Time and Space (7/19/2011)

Lecture Nijole Etzwiler, The Lithuanian Folk Dance Tradition (7/20/2011)

Lunch and Learn with Dr. Dan Burghart Pizza and conversation with students interested in using language skills in careers (7/20/2011)

Lecture Dan Burghart, In the Tracks of Tamerlane--Central Asias Path to the 21st Century (7/21/2011)

Movie Kevade Spring, Estonia (7/22/2011)

Cultural Event Visit to Balzekas Lithuanian Museum and Grand Dukes Lithuanian Restaurant in Chicago (7/23/2011)

Visit to University of Chicagos Oriental Institute and to Rezas Persian restaurant (7/23/2011)

K-12 Outreach Hands-on lesson on Russian cooking for upcoming 9th graders College for Kids II (7/25/2011)

Movie Orator Uzbekistan (7/25/2011)

Lecture Jeffers Englehardt, Anthems of the Singing Revolution and the Challenges of Historical Interpretation (7/26/2011)

Lecture Heather Sonntag, Russian Re-Photography and Albums Contesting Legitimacy in Colonial Central Asia (7/28/2011)

Movie The Singing Revolution, Estonia (7/29/2011)

Movie Tulpan Kazakhstan (8/1/2011)

Lecture Nancy Heingartner, My Grandparents Kaunas Searching for the 1920s in 2010 (8/2/2011)

Movie Baiga Vasara Dangerous Summer, Latvia (8/3/2011)

Cultural Event BALSSI Closing Ceremony (8/4/2011)

Cultural Event CESSI Closing Ceremony (8/4/2011)