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CREECA Lecture Series Podcast — 177 episodes
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
How Russia Joined the Council of Europe: The Role of Values, Politics, and Law - Jeff Kahn
Re-colonization? Kyrgyzstani Labor Migrant Experiences in Russia and Geopolitical Remittances
Law and Visual Culture in Three Vignettes - Agata Fijalkowski
Making a Difference: Helping Ukrainian Refugees on the Ukraine-Poland Border
The Russian 1990s and Soviet Writers: Market, Marginalization, and Decay in Peredelkino
Sovereign Fiction: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds - Tatyana Gershkovich
Crossroads of Empire: Culture and Statehood at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe - Cristina Florea
Thrifty Businesswoman or Exploiter Extraordinaire? The Madam in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Ukrainians in Poland in Peace and War - Iryna Januszek (9.15.22)
Black Like Us: African-American Travelers in Soviet Central Asia - Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon
Climate, Environment, and Society in Medieval Central Eurasia - Amanda Wooden and Henry Misa
The Untold Nuclear History of Kazakhstan - Togzhan Kassenova (7.14.22)
When Language Policy is Not Enough - Juldyz Smagulova (7.7.22)
Chechen Demographic Growth as a Reaction to the Existential Threat from Russia with Marat Iliyasov
Dialogue with the Dictator: Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management - Hannah Chapman
The Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland: Panel Discussion
The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties - Anat Plocker
The Political Economy of Polygynous Marriages Among the Kyrgyz - Michele Commercio (3.31.22)
James Joyce's Russia and the Nightmare of Paternity - Jose Vergara (3.24.22)
Russia Invades Ukraine: A Public Forum (3.2.22)
Truculent Nationalism: The Russian People and Foreign Policy - Michael Alexeev (3.3.22)
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe with Emily Greble (2.17.22)
Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food - Susanne Wengle
Judicial Dissent Under Autocracy: Evidence from the Russian Constitutional Court - Yulia Khalikova
Gender, Marriage, and Depression in the Animated Stories of Latvian Women
Social Policy and Societal Change: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program - Regina Smyth (12.2.21)
Spending Preferences of Russia's Regional Governors - Dmitriy Vorobyev (11.11.21)
Ethnic and Religious Identities in Russian Penal Institutions - Rustam Urinboyev (11.4.21)
The Legacy Of Vaclav Havel: Virtual Roundtable (10.28.21)
Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia - Brigid O'Keeffe (10.21.21)
Photography in the Russian Poetic Imagination - Molly T Blasing 10.14.21
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Industrial Order - Stefan Link (10.7.21)
Why Fight? Motivations of Anti-Kyiv Militants in the Donbass War - Natalia Savelyeva (09.30.21)
To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of Soviet Dissidents - Ben Nathans (9.23.21)
Perspectives On Diplomacy And Languages In Central Asia - Darren Thies (07.29.21)
Alexa Kurmanov - The Women Transnational Feminism Forgot(7.22.21)
The Hungry Steppe - Famine, Violence, And The Making Of Soviet Kazakhstan - Sarah Cameron (07.15.21)
China And The Uyghurs - Cultural Genocide In The Name Of Counterterrorism - Sean Roberts 07.01.21
Laboratory Of Socialist Development - Artemy Kalinovsky 06.24.21
Presentation of Bilingual Uzbek-English Poetic Dictionary - Gulnoza Odilova (06.17.21)
Eurasian Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis - Caress Schenk (4.29.2021)
Technological Solutions for Complex Problems - Erica Marat (4.22.2021)
Calling the Future - Sibelan Forrester (4.15.2021)
China and the Uyghurs - Sean Roberts (4.8.2021)
Queer Budapest - Anita Kurimay (3.25.21)
Putinism and its Discontents - Brian Taylor (3.18.21)
Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia - Kathryn Graber (3.11.21)
The Gendered Ambiguity of the Postcommunist Transitions - (3.4.2021)
Promoting US Policy in Eurasia: A Practitioner’s View - Caroline Savage (2.25.21)
Poland’s Democratic Experience - Don Pienkos (2.18.2021)
Guns to Butter - Maria Snegovaya (2.11.21)
On Civilization’s Edge - Kathryn Ciancia (2.4.21)
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg - Francine Hirsch (11.19.20)
Toxic Crimes Project - Freek van der Vet (11.12.2020)
CREECA Podcast - CESSI Alumni Panel (10.24.20)
Perestroika's Dark Side - Jeff Sahadeo (10.22.2020)
A Small State on the Global Scene - Theodora Dragostinova (10.8.20)
Putin's Constitutional Amendments, 2020 - Ekaterina Mishina (10.1.20)
The Fall of Europe's Last Dictator - Yuliya Brel (9.24.20)
Moral Future: Halal Businesses in Central Asia - Aisalkyn Botoeva (7.30.20)
Exploring Kazakhstani Koreans’ Notions of Place and Homeland - Elise Ahn (07.23.20)
CESSI Alumni Research Panel - Nick Seay & Laura Tourtellotte (07.12.20)
Language ideologies and identities of multilingual youth - Madina Djuraeva (7.2.20)
An Uzbek Patron and the Limits of Eurasian Power - Morgan Liu (6.25.20)
Annus Mirabilis? The Lessons and Legacies of 1989 - Barbara Falk (3.5.20)
Civil War and the Polarization of Ethnic Identities: Evidence from Bosnia - Chris Price (2.20.20)
Using election forensics on election manipulation in Russia & Ukraine - Cole Harvey (2.13.20)
From Protest Rallies to Local Activism: Political Culture in Russia - Natalia Savelyeva (1.30.20)
Belarus - a country that does not need democracy (or does it?)- Yuliya Brel (1.23.20)
Russia: Rise and Fall of the Rule of Law - Hon. Sidney Brooks (11.14.19)
Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia - Mariya Omelicheva (11.7.19)
Affect and Autocracy: Emotions and Attitudes in Russia after Crimea - Graeme Robertson (10.31.19)
Roma Filmic Representation as Postcolonial ‘Object’ - Sunnie Rucker-Chang (10.17.19)
Ukraine's Internally Displaced Crimeans: Diasporic Identities - Austin Charron (10.10.19)
‘Doomed to Good Relations’: The Soviet Union, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1985-1991 (10.3.19)
Political Cycles in Media Harassment (9.12.19)
Elite Formation in Soviet Kazakhstan: A Prosopographical Analysis - Maria Blackwood (8.1.19)
The Rise and Fall of Khoquand, 1709-1876 - Scott Levi (8.8.19)
Reproductive Health Improvements in Central Asia: How Much and for Whom? - Cynthia Buckley (7.25.19)
Fieldwork tips for research in Central Asia: Safety and ethics - Christopher Whitsel (7.11.19)
China's Policies of Transforming Uyghurs: Labor Transfer, Language Change, "Re-education" Camps"
The Normative Foundations of Patronal Presidential Rule: Examples From Central Asia
The personal and Political Impacts of the Siege of Leningrad - Lisa Kirschenbaum (4.18.19)
The Legal Profession in Russia - Ekaterina Khodzhaeva (4.4.19)
Space Begins on Earth: Communication Satellites and Cold War History - Christine E. Evans (3.14.19)
Queering Polish-Russian Relations: Soviet Tops and Polish Bottoms - Jodi Greig (2.28.19)
Electoral Manipulation and Regime Support: Survey Evidence from Russia - David Szakonyi (2.14.19)
Civic Duty and Voting Under Autocracy - Ora John Reuter (2.7.19)
Between the Nile and the Neva: St. Petersburg Multilingual Jewish Text - Mikhail Krutikov (1.31.19)
If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland - Anna Müller (1.24.19)
Reports from the Field: Graduate Research in Action (11.29.18)
Confronting Political Dishonesty: Lessons From Central Europe — Aspen Brinton (11.15.18)
How Jehovah's Witnesses Became "Extremists": Religious Freedom in Russia — Emily Baran (11.1.18)
World War I, Its Impact, and Those Who Made Poland's Rebirth Happen — Donald Pienkos (10.25.18)
Natalia Sats: Arrest and Exile — Manon van de Water (10.18.18)
How Strong is the Russian President? — Graeme Gill (10.11.18)
Russian History and the Limits of Studying Religion — Patrick Michelson (10.4.18)
Practical Realities of Russia-Ukraine-US Commercial Transactions — Max Chester (9.27.18)
The "Liquidation" of the Nomads in the South Caucasus, 1921-1936 — Stephan Rindlisbacher (9.20.18)
Faculty Misconduct, Corruption, and Doctoral Degree Fraud in Ukraine — Ararat Osipian (9.13.18)
Fieldwork Tips for Eurasia: Safety and Ethics (8.9.18)
Criminal Justice in Kazakhstan — Alexei Trochev (8.2.18)
China and Central Asia — Edward Friedman (7.19.18)
Food Discourse in Contemporary Uzbek Literature — Gulnoza Odilova (7.12.18)
Rukhani Zhangiru: The Third Modernization in Kazakhstan — Uli Schamiloglu (7.5.18)
Leadership Transitions in Central Asia: Past, Present, & Future — Eugene Huskey (6.28.18)
Putin's Russia and China in Central Asia: Conflict & Cooperation — Yuri Maltsev (6.21.18)
Nuclear Power & the Arrogance of Man: Revisiting the Chernobyl Disaster — Serhii Plokhii (4.19.18)
Why Poland Matters: Sources of Radical Right Power in E. Europe & the World — David Ost (4.12.18)
Cooperation Between the US and Russia Despite Conflicting Narratives — Herrera & Kydd (3.15.18)
Archive of Violence: Itsik Kipnis's Months and Days — Harriet Murav (3.08.18)
A Conversation about Russian Influence in U.S. Elections (2.27.18)
Hate Crimes Against LBGT People in Russia — Alexander Kondakov (3.01.18)
Shadow of the Hegemon: Eastern Europe, Havel, and their Interpreters — Delia Popescu (2.22.18)
Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia — Jordan Gans-Morse (2.16.18)
Putin's Leadership and Historical Legacies in Russia — Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (1.25.18)
Ukraine: Can Intl Organizations Improve Quality of Governance? — Tymofiy Mylovanov (12.07.17)
Russian Migration Legislation and Its Meaning for Tajik Migrants — Natalia Zotova (11.30.17)
Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia — Ruben Enikolopov (11.16.17)
Insights on Imperial Russian Industrialization — Amanda Gregg (11.02.17)
The First World War in German, Polish, and Russian History — Jesse Kauffman (10.26.17)
Russia's Demographic Trends — Alexandra Lukina (10.20.17)
Czechoslovak Exile After 1948 — Martin Nekola (09.28.17)
Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional East Europe — Marina Zaloznaya (09.21.17)
Who was Thaddeus Kosciuszko? — Donald Pienkos (09.14.2017)
The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship — Paul Castañeda Dower (09.07.2017)