Upcoming Events at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
CREES NEWS
(The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – Center for Russian and East
European Studies)
Winter 2005
From the Director, Barbara A. Anderson (excerpted)
… Our Brown Bag Series is diverse and compelling with lectures as well
as musical performances. Presentations cover a variety of fields and
locales, ranging from Albanian literature to democracy in Armenia and
Russia, Islam in Chechnya, the Russian monarchy during World War I, and
politics in early Soviet Turkestan.
CREES faculty continue to be recognized for their accomplishments.
Katherine Verdery is the current American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) president, and Ron Suny, who is a
visiting professor at U-M this year but returning to a tenured
professorship next year, is president-elect …
CALENDAR OF EVENTS (All events are in 1636 International Institute, 1080
S. University Ave., unless otherwise noted):
— Wednesday, February 9, 2005 (Noon)
Noon Concert. Piano concert by CREES visiting scholars Milica Skaric and
Vahe Sahakyan. Ms. Skaric, docent in piano education at the Faculty of
Pedagogy in Stip, Macedonia, and Mr. Sahakyan, assistant professor of
sociology at Yerevan State University, will perform Macedonian and
Armenian folk music as well as works from the classical repertoire.
— Wednesday, March 9, 2005 (Noon)
Brown Bag Lecture. “The Making of Islam and Inherent Rebelliousness in
Chechnya.” Presentation by Georgi Derluguian, assistant professor of
sociology, Northwestern University.
— Wednesday, March 16, 2005 (Noon)
Brown Bag Lecture. “Democratization in Armenia: A Sociological
Analysis.” Presentation by Vahe Sahakyan, assistant professor of
sociology and deputy head, Department of Sociology, Yerevan State
University, and U-M visiting scholar through American Council’s Junior
Faculty Development Program. This lecture is co-sponsored by the
Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
NEW COURSE FOR WINTER 2005 SEMESTER AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
— “Readings in the History of the Third Armenian Republic, 1991 to the
Present”
Course: History 302.004, 3 credits.
Instructor: Gerard Libaridian, Alex Manoogian Visiting Professor of
Armenian Studies.
Synopsis: A seminar / discussion course on major original and analytical
texts dealing with Armenia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The
readings will relate conflicts within the new republic to opposing views
of the purpose of independence, the role of the Diaspora, as well as to
the rise of a new nation-state in the age of globalization.
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