CREES Newsletter CENTER for RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN & EURASIAN STUDIES FALL 2016
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CREES Newsletter CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN & EURASIAN STUDIES FALL 2016 CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE INTERIM DIRECTOR DIRECTOR’S LETTER basis, by teaching Russian next day, on “Return Mi- can in order to discuss the language and culture at gration and the Creation writing of the book, cur- 1 the Juvenile Detention of a Transatlantic Polish rent trends in area studies, Center in Lawrence, and Culture.” and then celebrate their SECURITY CONFERENCE by serving on the Kansas Later in October, we accomplishment. 2 WW I Centennial Com- welcome Dr. Andriy Danyl- For further informa- mittee. The good news enko, of Pace University tion on these lectures and CHORNOBYL ANNIVERSARY is that the College agreed in New York City, who other events scheduled 2 to replace the administra- will lecture on Oct. 17 on for this semester, take a tive associate position, “The Ukrainian Bible and look at the full CREES fall LECTURE CALENDAR which provides support Russian Imperial Censor- events listing enclosed. I 2 for both CREES and the ship.” We are grateful to would also encourage you CREES Director Vitaly Center for Latin American a number of co-sponsors to come to the CREES STEPHEN PARKER Chernetsky has received & Caribbean Studies. We for support in bringing Fall Mixer, on Sept. 2, in are happy to welcome in Professor Danylenko, REMEMBERED the Hall Center’s inaugural order to get acquainted Mid-Career Research Fel- Mr. Chad O’Bryhim to the including the Department and share good food and 3 lowship, for a book proj- Center in this capacity. If of History, the School of conversation. ect entitled “Displacement, you would like to know a Languages Literatures & We are pleased to wel- THE VIA EGNATIA Desire, Identity: Migration bit more about Chad, you Cultures, the Department come a new cohort of 3 and Diasporization in Slavic can check out his short bio of Slavic Languages and REES MA students to KU; Literatures.” Professor Al- in this newsletter. Literatures, and Religious you can find out more UKRAINE: NOTES FROM exander Diener has kindly Despite working with Studies. As with the Ri- about them elsewhere in THE FIELD agreed to step in as acting a limited budget and staff abchuk and Bilotserkivets the newsletter. We are director for the academic this year, CREES continues lectures noted above, we also glad to welcome a 4-6 year, August, 2016 – May, to impress with its wide remain most grateful to the new affiliate of our Center, SPRING BROWNBAGS 2017 range of events and out- Palij family and their con- the Rev. Dr. Joshua Lollar, reach. It is a pleasure to tinued support of Ukrai- a specialist on eastern 7 It is an honor and an announce that CREES will nian studies at KU. Christianity in the Reli- exciting challenge to be host no fewer than five Finally, in early Novem- gious Studies Department, SPRING SNAPSHOTS stepping into the role of visiting lecturers this fall. ber we will welcome back and two new CREES fel- 8-9 CREES Interim Director. As First up, we have one of former CREES Director Dr. lows, Dr. Brett Chloupek, a faculty member whose Ukraine’s leading political Edith Clowes, who is now a KU alum now teaching FACULTY & STAFF NEWS position was seeded as thinkers, Mykola Riabchuk, the Brown-Forman Profes- at Northwest Missouri 10-11 part of a previous CREES who will deliver a lecture sor of Slavic Languages State University, and Dr. Title VI NRC grant, you “Two Ukraines Reconsid- and Literatures at the Kristopher White of KIMEP INTERVIEW WITH GERALD can be sure that I have a ered: Forging the National University of Virginia. Dr. University in Kazakhstan, MIKKELSON special appreciation for the Identity in a War-Torn Clowes and her co-editor, who will be based at our Center and its activities. I Country,” on Sept. 22. The Shelly Jarrett Bromberg Center as a visitor during 11-12 am pleased to have the op- following day, acclaimed (associate professor and the fall semester. portunity to give back to a poet Natalka Bilotserkivets chair of the Department FALL BROWNBAGS I am grateful to the community that I treasure, will speak about modern of Spanish and Portuguese friendly and diverse CREES 13 and work with a team of Ukrainian poetry and the at Miami University), have family for its commitment talented and dedicated challenges she and oth- produced an interdisciplin- to developing and sharing STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS staff members. ers face. ary introduction to area knowledge about the re- 14-15 As have many units and The Backus/Cienciala studies, entitledArea Stud- gion we study and to forg- departments at KU, CREES Polish Studies Fund has ies in the Global Age: Com- ing meaningful intellectual NEW DEVELOPMENTS has suffered from budget made it possible to bring munity, Place, Identity, and dialogue. In the current 15 cuts and staffing short- in noted historian Keely we plan to have a panel complex political climate, ages over the last several Stauter-Halsted, the He- discussion on the book and our work is more relevant GIVING OPPORTUNITIES years. Adrienne Landry, jna Family Chair of Polish its contribution to the field than ever. Here is to future Studies at the University on Nov. 3. A number of KU 16 our Outreach Coordinator/ scholarly accomplishments Program Officer, accepted of Illinois at Chicago, who faculty members and grad- and to helping through our @KUCREES another opportunity in the will deliver a lecture on uate students contributed efforts as engaged scholars spring of 2016, and her Monday, Oct. 3 entitled chapters to the volume, make the world a better position remains unfilled. “Prostitution and Social which is the direct result place! While she has been absent Control in Partitioned Po- of a CREES-sponsored from the office, Adrienne land.” Dr. Stauter-Halsted conference held at KU in Alexander Diener CREES.KU.EDU continues to serve the has also agreed to deliver 2011. We will assemble as Center on a volunteer a Brownbag lecture the many of the authors as we INTERIM DIRECTOR 2016 KU SECURITY CONFERENCE: RUSSIA ALONG NATO’S BORDERS CREES STAFF KU’s Office of Graduate Mariya Omelicheva (Associ- Military Studies, Center for ate Professor, KU Political INTERIM DIRECTOR Global and International Science), Aric Toler (Con- Alexander Diener Studies (CGIS), Center for sultant, Bellingcat), David [email protected] Russian, East European & Trimbach (PhD Student, KU Eurasian Studies (CREES) Geography) and Thomas ASSISTANT DIRECTOR and Department of Political Wilhelm (Director, Foreign BART REDFORD Science hosted a half-day Military Studies Office). The Security Conference on afternoon featured a key- [email protected] April 15, 2016. note address by Karatnycky Speakers at the event on the conflict in Ukraine OFFICE MANAGER included, pictured at left, and its broader implica- Chad O’Bryhim Adrian Karatnycky (Senior tions, which was followed [email protected] Fellow, Atlantic Council’s by two panel talks, the first Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Cen- focused on several real or ter), Roger Kangas (Dean, potential conflict zones, and Near East South Asia Cen- the second on the drivers of APPLICATIONS ter for Strategic Studies), Russian security policy. COMMITTEE SHANNON O’LEAR IVAKHIV LECTURES ON CHORNOBYL ANNIVERSARY GEOGRAPHY CREES and the Environmental Stud- within a series of widely varying spatio- ies Program at theUniversity of Kansas temporal reference frames, including NATHAN WOOD organized a special lecture to mark the histories of the Soviet Union, its growth HISTORY 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl and eventual collapse; relations be- nuclear accident. On April 28, Adrian tween Ukraine, Ukrainians, and their Ivakhiv, professor of environmental neighbors; militarized “black sites” thought and culture at the Rubenstein and Cold War (and post-Cold War) 2015-16 School of Environment and Natural conspiracy theories; nuclear power Resources, University of Vermont, gave and the anti-nuclear movement; scien- EXCOMM a talk entitled “30 Years (or 30,000): tific experiments on biotic populations; Seven Spectral Stories of Chornobyl.” zombie and “stalker” cultures and sub- CHAIR In his talk Ivakhiv interpreted the cultures; and the Anthropocene and its VITALY CHERNETSKY Chornobyl nuclear accident of 1986 theorization. SLAVIC STEPHEN DICKEY FALL 2016 LECTURE HIGHLIGHTS Sex in the Bourgeois Family: ANI KOKOBOBO Global Headlines: BREXIT Center For Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Panel Talk Prostitution and the Middle-Class Poetry Reading HISTORY Monday, August 29, 4-5:30 p.m. Home in Partitioned Poland Featuring celebrated Ukrainian Poet Natalka Bilotserkivets Backus/Cienciala Lecture ERIK SCOTT Kansas Room, Kansas Union Speakers: Victor Bailey (History), Monday, October 3, 7 p.m. WE Robert Rohrschneider (Political Malott Room, Kansas Union SHALL POLITICAL SCIENCE Science), Felix Meschke (Business), Speaker: Keely Stauter-Halsted NOT ROBERT ROHRSCHNEIDER Lorie Vanchena (European Studies) (History, U. of Illinois at Chicago) DIE IN LIBRARY Two Ukraines Reconsidered: The Ukranian Bible and Russian PARIS Imperial Censorship Modern Ukrainian Poetry JON GIULLIAN Forging the National Identity in a -- Changes and Challenges War-Torn Country Palij Lecture PROFESSIONAL Palij Lecture Tuesday, October 18, 7-9 p.m. Thursday, September 22, 7 p.m. Room 330, Strong Hall Friday, September 23 Center For Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies SCHOOLS Speaker: Andriy Danylenko (Rus- Noon, KS Union, Jayhawk Ink @KUCREES Malott Room, Kansas Union The Palij Family Fund supports lecturerers specializing in Ukrainian studies and KU studentsPublic specializing in Ukraine Lecture CREES.KU.EDU TOM VOLEK Speaker: Mykola Riabchuk (Political sian & Slavic Linguistics, Pace um as asped modigniscia ad Analyst, Ukraine) University, NYC) AT LARGE us The pliquat enis simposan SHANNON O’LEAR We Shall Not Die in Paris: Area Studies in a Global Age o ukranian dolor susam, ten Modern Ukrainian Poetry - Roundtable tan bible and uame autatur GRADUATE STUDENT Changes and Challenges Thursday, November 3, 7-9 p.m.