CREECA Lecture Series Podcast
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CREECA Lecture Series Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It has 177 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
CREECA’s mission is to support research, teaching, and outreach on Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, and Central Asia. We approach this three-part mission by promoting faculty research across a range of disciplines; by supporting graduate and undergraduate teaching and training related to the region; and by serving as a community resource through outreach activities targeted to K-12 teachers and students, other institutions of higher education, and the general public. As a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, CREECA hosts a variety of events and lectures which are free and open to the public. You can find recordings of past events here.
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A ‘Total Revolution?’ The Pugachev Rebellion: Between Indigenous Republicanism and Radical Enlightenment
From Hughes to Baldwin: How Soviet Critics Read Black American Literature
The Making and Unmaking of the Soviet People
Identity and War: What the Russian War on Ukraine Teaches Us About the Causes of War
A Man Who Changed the World: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, 1906-1982
Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War
Elite Women on Trial in Post-Reform Russia, 1866-1884
Scientific Atheism as an Ideological Discipline in Soviet Ukraine
Laurie Anderson, Emigre Culture, the KGB, and the Dream of Connecting: (Soviet) Latvian Artists in (West) Berlin, 1977-1992
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-hundred-year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
“If not us, then who?”: Understanding Ukrainian Civilians’ Engagement in the War Effort Since February 2022
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
Writing the Soviet History of Philosophy in the 1960s–1980s
Mapping Land Use and Habitat Changes in the Caucasus Through Spy Satellite Data
Rivers and Society in Late Soviet Georgia: Nation, the Environment and the Everyday
Estonia’s Nordic Identity: History and the Present
Russia’s War against Ukraine and The February 24th Archive Project
“Reporting from a Lost Country,” a conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko
Russian-Speaking Latvians at the Borders of Global History
Secrets of State
Writing the Twentieth Century in Post-Stalin Russia
A Colonial Muslim History of China and the World
The Formulation and Flow of National Identity from the Late Czarist Times to Today
Power, Light and Yet Another Transition
Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond
Russian Independent Media Archive Project
Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s
Do you suffer from urbanitis? Gender, cybernetics, and environmental concerns in 1970s Estonian SSR
Cryptotheology, Psychobiography: Transgression in Polish 20th-Century Theatre
Between Horror and Hope
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society
Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World
Sonic Inscription, Soviet Writing, and Mikhail Romm’s Oral Stories with Matthew Kendall
After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre And The Peace That Followed
Intermarriage And The Friendship Of Peoples
The Story Of Memorial And The Country's Failed Transition To The Rule Of Law
Dungan Folktales & Legends: The Sino-Muslim Folkloric Narrative Tradition of Central Asia
The Great Game and Migration of the 1950-60s from China to Kazakhstan with Dr. Ablet Kamalov
Resilience in Ukraine: What We Know and What Can Be Done with Tymofii Brik
A Spiritual Revolution: Reform and Reaction in Orthodox Russia with Andrey Ivanov
Political Participation of Women in the USSR and Russia with Valeria Umanets
Shifting Rationality: How Identity Decay Led Russia to Invade Ukraine with Mikhail Troitskiy
War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women's Political Citizenship in Finland with Aili Tripp
A War Vocabulary: Traumatic Experience and the Search for a New Language in Ukrainian Literature
Power And Powerlessness In Wartime Russia with Sam Greene
Ukraine's Unnamed War - Jesse Driscoll (2.9.23)
The Russian Labor Market Story: Deciphering the Puzzles with Vladimir Gimpelson
The Biggest War Since 1945: Why and How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Matters for European Security
Pastoralism in Kazakhstan as Cultural Heritage or Sustainable Culture? - Russell Zanca
Ukraine Now and Tomorrow - Yoshiko Herrera, Sara Karpukhin, and Oksana Stoychuk
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